Recaps

Ye Yizhou amused the guests by refusing to give Jiang Chuyu a couple’s watch, then pointed out that the show’s grocery-shopping schedule would leave everyone without lunch. Director Ji changed the plan and took Ye Yizhou aside, but when the production team opened a livestream of their conversation, the cameras could not find them.

• Jiang Chuyu explained that the couple’s watches were expensive and said receiving one from Song Jincheng would be too intimate, while Ye Yizhou teased him by offering his own watch and then refusing to give it away.
• Ye Yizhou criticized Director Ji’s grocery-shopping schedule as impractical, and Director Ji arranged for the production team to provide lunch instead.
• Director Ji called Ye Yizhou outside for a private conversation, while Jiang Chuyu defended Ye Yizhou against Zhong Xi and Song Jincheng’s criticism.
• After viewers asked to see the conversation, the production team opened a separate livestream, but the camera crew could not locate Ye Yizhou or Director Ji.
• Director Ji’s panicked voice suddenly sounded from above as the cameraman searched for them.

Ye Yizhou teased Director Ji from the villa’s hidden balcony, then learned the director wanted him to stay out of the guests’ romantic interactions. Ye Yizhou claimed he had won over the person he liked, while Director Ji tried to tell him about risking his life for someone else’s love.

• Ye Yizhou waved to the cameraman from the balcony while Director Ji angrily asked why he had not told them where the hidden staircase was.
• Director Ji directed the cameraman to the concealed staircase and confronted Ye Yizhou about disrupting the dating show.
• Director Ji suggested Ye Yizhou take the role of a romance observer and stop interfering with the other guests’ interactions.
• Ye Yizhou said he had won over the person he liked, prompting speculation among viewers that he meant Song Jincheng.
• Director Ji asked Ye Yizhou whether he had ever put his life on the line for someone else’s love, and Ye Yizhou pulled out sunflower seeds and urged him to continue the story.

Ye Yizhou and Director Ji cleared up the rumors about Ye Yizhou joining the show and the paparazzi dinner footage, revealing that Director Ji had been trying to secure an introduction for him. Ye Yizhou then hinted that Yan Qingdu was already his, pointing to the ring on his left hand.

• Director Ji described his failed attempts to arrange a meeting between Ye Yizhou and the person Ye Yizhou liked, including asking his father-in-law, Director Liu Jiangzhou, for help.
• Ye Yizhou played their WeChat voice messages, revealing that he had refused to join the show unless Director Ji could invite the mystery person and had called Director Ji useless.
• Ye Yizhou explained that the paparazzi had invented a story from footage of dinner, while Director Ji said he had paid for the meal and taken home the expensive wine he had ordered.
• Director Ji admitted he had let the rumors spread to save the attention for his show's ratings and publicity.
• Director Ji asked whether Ye Yizhou had won over the person he liked, and Ye Yizhou said the timing and circumstances had brought them together before showing off his ring while thinking of Yan Qingdu.

Ye Yizhou told Director Ji that he was married, then joked on the livestream about finding other cute guys while his husband was abroad, leaving viewers confused before his stream was shut down. He later returned to the villa and pretended Director Ji had forced him to leave, turning the other guests against the director.

• Director Ji questioned Ye Yizhou about his ring, and Ye Yizhou admitted that he was married to a man who had gone abroad on business.
• Ye Yizhou joked that he could find other cute guys while his husband was away, alarming Director Ji and bewildering the livestream viewers.
• Ye Yizhou told Director Ji to end his individual livestream, then promised viewers he would still appear on schedule each day.
• After his livestream was shut down, Ye Yizhou dismissed Director Ji's worries and left to review plans for upcoming activities.
• Ye Yizhou returned to the villa to retrieve his watch box, then played along with Director Ji's explanation that he had to leave for work.
• Ye Yizhou acted as if Director Ji had forced him out and took Jiang Chuyu's hand, making the other guests look suspiciously at Director Ji.

Ye Yizhou revealed that his apparent distress around Jiang Chuyu had been an act, then theatrically left the dating show after Director Ji ordered him out. At lunch with his father, Ye Chongli, Ye Yizhou suspected that the invitation had another purpose, but Ye Chongli only sighed about his good intentions.

• Director Ji pulled Ye Yizhou away from Jiang Chuyu, and Ye Yizhou explained that physical contact helped convey emotions before admitting he had been acting.
• Ye Yizhou reassured Jiang Chuyu, then left the show in exaggerated tears while Director Ji hurried after him to check that he had a ride.
• Ye Yizhou's unexpected appearance and behavior dominated online discussion and boosted the dating show's livestream popularity.
• Two bodyguards brought Ye Yizhou to lunch with Ye Chongli, where Ye Yizhou questioned his father's unusually warm welcome and warned that he would leave unless Ye Chongli stated his reason for inviting him.

Ye Chongli pushed Ye Yizhou to take over the family business after hearing him say so during a livestream, and Ye Yizhou eventually agreed. Over lunch, Ye Chongli revealed he had sent Ye Yizhou’s hand-holding clip to his partner, leaving Ye Yizhou speechless.

• Ye Chongli teased Ye Yizhou before revealing that someone had said he wanted to take over the family business.
• Ye Yizhou assumed Ye Jing'an had volunteered, then denied saying it himself until Ye Chongli replayed his livestream clip.
• Ye Chongli persuaded Ye Yizhou to agree to take over by appealing to his mother’s wish to travel.
• Ye Chongli complained that Ye Yizhou had not praised him for passing on the work, and Ye Yizhou warned him not to push his luck.
• Ye Chongli told Ye Yizhou that he had sent his partner a clip of Ye Yizhou holding a young man’s hand on the show.

Ye Chongli reassured himself that Ye Yizhou valued Qingdu, then hurried him to a company meeting despite his attempts to escape. At the meeting, Ye Yizhou discovered the executives had watched his dating-show livestream during an earlier meeting.

• Ye Chongli teased Ye Yizhou about neglecting Qingdu, and Ye Yizhou insisted he would cherish the partner he had worked hard to win over.
• Ye Chongli brought Ye Yizhou to the company for an afternoon meeting, holding onto him so he could not slip away.
• Ye Chongli introduced Ye Yizhou to the executives, who said he had stood out on the livestream.
• Ye Yizhou realized the executives had watched his dating-show livestream during a company meeting and questioned whether they ran a legitimate company.

Ye Yizhou learned that Yan Qingdu had asked for him to lead a joint holographic-technology project between Ye Group and Yan Group, with Yan Qingdu promising to cover any losses. After the directors left, Ye Yizhou discovered that Ye Chongli planned to leave the company’s management to him and go on vacation.

• Ye Chongli and the directors praised Ye Yizhou’s livestream and discussed how his marriage to Yan Qingdu strengthened ties between their families.
• Lu Yuanqing explained that the two companies planned to use holographic technology in film and television productions, with Ye Yizhou in charge of the joint project.
• Ye Yizhou questioned why the directors trusted him with the project, and Ye Chongli revealed that Yan Qingdu had agreed to cover any losses.
• Ye Chongli urged Ye Yizhou to do well, but Ye Yizhou told him to stop putting pressure on him.
• After the directors left, Ye Yizhou learned that Ye Chongli intended to go on vacation and leave him and Lu Yuanqing to handle the company.

Song Jincheng and his manager, Li Pingqi, plotted to ruin Ye Yizhou’s reputation after he became harder to control and drew attention on the dating show. Li Pingqi released a video that fueled rumors Ye Yizhou had been taken away by his newlywed husband, and the hashtag surged to the top of the trending searches.

• Song Jincheng asked Li Pingqi whether he had controlled public opinion about Ye Yizhou, and Li Pingqi claimed online commenters were already turning against him.
• Li Pingqi urged Song Jincheng to promote his pairing with Jiang Chuyu and said they should destroy Ye Yizhou using footage of him with an older man.
• Song Jincheng asked about his next drama, and Li Pingqi reassured him that he was still trying to secure the lead role.
• Li Pingqi coordinated paid commenters and marketing accounts to spread a video of Ye Yizhou leaving a restaurant with a suited man and being pulled into a car.
• The hashtag claiming Ye Yizhou had been taken away by his newlywed husband reached the top of trending searches, prompting rumors that he had cheated on his spouse.

Wei Zhao learned that Ye Yizhou was married to his father and that the person in the viral photos was his dad, not a lover. Ye Yizhou planned to counter the smear campaign with a Weibo post and left Wei Zhao curious about their meeting the next day.

• Wei Zhao called Ye Yizhou to warn him that Song Jincheng’s team was behind a smear campaign, while Ye Yizhou calmly followed the drama.
• Wei Zhao discovered that Ye Yizhou had signed a marriage agreement and had mistaken his father for a male escort.
• Ye Yizhou clarified that the person in the trending photos was his dad, whom he had visited to lean on for support.
• Wei Zhao asked how they would retaliate, and Ye Yizhou said he would respond on Weibo and use the attention to undo their opponents’ work.
• Ye Yizhou told Wei Zhao they would see each other tomorrow but refused to explain where, then hung up.

Ye Yizhou countered online attacks by sharing family and marriage evidence, then vowed to pursue rumor-spreaders legally. The next morning, he arrived at Entertainment Emperor Entertainment to handle new work after being summoned back.

• Ye Yizhou posted a family group chat that mocked the claims he had married an old man for money, though some commenters dismissed it as fabricated.
• Ye Yizhou shared his marriage certificate, showing that his husband Yan Qingdu was six years older, and posted their sparse messages to explain their distant relationship.
• People verified Ye Yizhou's claims about inheriting the family business and his husband's overseas work, while others accused him of faking the evidence and challenged him to produce his husband.
• Ye Yizhou said he had hired a lawyer to collect evidence against people spreading rumors, and he laughed at commenters who thought he would not sue.
• At 9:50 the next morning, Ye Yizhou arrived at Entertainment Emperor Entertainment in a black suit after being summoned back to the company.

Ye Yizhou arrived at Yuhuang Entertainment to pursue a role in a major co-production and went straight to the tenth floor, where executives from Lingyao Group and Yan Group were meeting. His manager Wei Zhao learned what he was doing but insisted he was not worried.

• Ye Yizhou overheard He Xu and Chen Kangcheng discussing auditions for a big-budget movie and encouraged He Xu to trust his acting skills.
• Ye Yizhou rode the elevator past He Xu and Chen Kangcheng, then continued up to the tenth floor to meet the company’s important guests.
• He Xu marveled at Ye Yizhou’s boldness, while Chen Kangcheng tried to reassure him about the audition.
• Wei Zhao heard that Ye Yizhou had gone to the tenth floor and, despite Chen Kangcheng’s concerns, said he was not worried.

Ye Yizhou arrived late to a project meeting and declared himself in charge, rejecting Entertainment Emperor Entertainment’s demand to reserve the cast for its own artists. He insisted the project’s quality came first and left the room with his authority firmly established.

• Wei Zhao told Chen Kangcheng he could not control Ye Yizhou and therefore did not worry about his plans.
• Ye Yizhou called someone after the secretary stopped him from entering the conference room, and Lu Yuanqing then let him in despite his arriving an hour late.
• Ye Yizhou introduced himself as the person overseeing the project and asked the representatives from Lingyao Group, the Yan Group, and Entertainment Emperor Entertainment what they had decided.
• He Sipei proposed that Liu Jiangzhou direct the film and that casting prioritize Entertainment Emperor Entertainment’s artists, a proposal that others supported.
• Ye Yizhou said casting would be open to any actors who met the director’s requirements and that poor performers would be excluded, regardless of their company.
• Ye Yizhou reminded the representatives that he was the client and that he would make the final decisions, then asked whether anyone still objected.

Ye Yizhou laid down fair casting rules for the Yan Group film project, then told Wei Zhao and the others that he had invested in the dating show and planned to return to it. He left the story preparing to join the show again while the film’s open auditions awaited capable actors.

• Ye Yizhou gave Director Liu casting authority for the film and warned that interference or bribery would have consequences.
• Ye Yizhou told Lu Yuanqing that he had taken on only the project and would not start working at the company every day.
• Ye Yizhou told Wei Zhao, Chen Kangcheng, and He Xu that the film would hold open auditions and judge actors only by their ability.
• Ye Yizhou received a call from Director Liu and agreed to meet after Liu returned from vacation.
• Ye Yizhou told Wei Zhao that he planned to return to the dating show and revealed that he had invested in it.

Ye Yizhou obtained Wei Zhao’s evidence against people who had targeted him and prepared to strike back, while Entertainment Emperor announced an open-audition project that sparked a rush to improve acting skills. During the dating show’s third livestream, the guests discovered they were being taken to a different house, and Jiang Chuyu inadvertently left Song Jincheng’s affectionate gesture unanswered.

• Ye Yizhou asked Wei Zhao for the collected evidence so he could settle accounts with people who had undermined him.
• Entertainment Emperor announced a new screen project funded by Yan Group, supported by Lingyao Group, and directed by Liu Jiangzhou, with open auditions for actors.
• Entertainment Emperor’s artists began hiring acting coaches, prompting people across the industry to prepare and post about improving their acting.
• The third dating-show livestream began, and the guests boarded a bus as viewers greeted Song Jincheng and discussed the villa complex.
• Jiang Chuyu noticed that the bus was heading somewhere different and asked the director whether they had moved the guests to a new house.
• Song Jincheng reached to pat Jiang Chuyu’s head, but Jiang leaned forward to question the director, leaving Song’s hand suspended before he withdrew it, looking hurt.

Director Ji and the guests went to Ye Yizhou’s villa to pick him up and waited while he got ready. After Ye Yizhou arrived, he traded barbs with Zhong Xi, ending by accusing him of stealing other people’s opportunities.

• Director Ji took the guests to Ye Yizhou’s villa, where Aunt Chun invited them inside to wait.
• The guests marveled at the villa and sat nervously among its expensive furnishings until Ye Yizhou came downstairs.
• Ye Yizhou ate a sandwich and told Aunt Chun to take time off, while theatrically complaining that he might starve alone at home.
• Zhong Xi accused Ye Yizhou of hiring Aunt Chun to pretend he was rich, and Ye Yizhou challenged him to hire an actor himself.
• Zhong Xi claimed he acted the same in private and on camera, but Ye Yizhou mocked him for how he had begged Director Ji to join the show.
• Ye Yizhou accused Zhong Xi of stealing other people’s opportunities, making Zhong Xi jump up in anger.

Ye Yizhou confronted Zhong Xi on the livestream, warning him to stop making accusations and inviting him to let the law decide. On the bus to the dating house, Jiang Chuyu sat beside Ye Yizhou, who mistook his intentions for romantic interest and declared that he was married.

• Zhong Xi denied stealing opportunities, and Ye Yizhou accused him of trying to incite cyberbullying and warned him to watch himself.
• Zhong Xi failed to answer Ye Yizhou, and Director Ji broke the tense silence by directing the guests to board the bus.
• Ye Yizhou sat in the back row, while the other guests chose seats near the front and Zhong Xi sat far from Sang Xiangwan.
• Jiang Chuyu chose the seat beside Ye Yizhou, and Ye Yizhou told him he was married and that his partner was still the one for him.
• Song Jincheng and the other guests reacted with shock to Ye Yizhou's remarks to Jiang Chuyu.

On the dating-show bus, Ye Yizhou confronted the hostile live comments and made clear he would no longer let anyone use or bully him. After the guests reached the villa, he went to the garden swing instead of joining them, leaving Director Ji baffled.

• Ye Yizhou showed Jiang Chuyu the livestream comments attacking them as Song Jincheng sat alone after Jiang Chuyu ignored him.
• Jiang Chuyu said Ye Yizhou had influenced his choice a little and that he would accept the consequences himself.
• Ye Yizhou laughed off the insults, answered the commenters directly, and told them to ask Song Jincheng to leave if they disliked looking at him.
• Ye Yizhou warned the guests that nobody could climb over him or other innocent people anymore, leaving Song Jincheng and Zhong Xi silent.
• After the bus arrived, Ye Yizhou went to the garden swing instead of entering the villa and told Director Ji he should appreciate how good Ye Yizhou was to him.

Ye Yizhou discussed the dating show's manufactured romances with Director Ji, then mocked hostile viewers in his solo livestream by joking that his unhappy marriage left him with nothing but money. After haters flooded the chat, he made a call and had them repeatedly removed from the livestream.

• Director Ji refused to accompany Ye Yizhou, warning that their presence could embarrass people on the show.
• Ye Yizhou told Director Ji that the participants had their own agendas and that the show's romantic chemistry was deliberately manufactured.
• After Director Ji left, Ye Yizhou joked in his livestream that his husband had given him a limitless black card and gone abroad, leaving him with only money.
• When haters criticized him and demanded he leave the show, Ye Yizhou challenged them to pay to have him removed.
• Ye Yizhou called someone to get to work, and the haters were blocked from re-entering his livestream.

Ye Yizhou challenged viewers to use their money to force him off the show, then turned his livestream into an academic discussion about entertainment personas. He revealed that he had adopted a persona he believed was popular two years earlier and insisted that his career plans were backed by data.

• Ye Yizhou told viewers that whoever paid could call the shots, and challenged anyone who wanted him gone to make it happen.
• When viewers asked why he had changed so much, Ye Yizhou borrowed the production team's monitor to read livestream comments.
• Ye Yizhou asked viewers whether high-maintenance and ditzy beauty personas were popular in the entertainment industry.
• After viewers said the persona had fallen out of favor, Ye Yizhou complained that they had changed their minds too quickly and called them players.
• Ye Yizhou rejected the idea that he had chosen his persona carelessly, saying his plans for entering the entertainment industry were serious and backed by data.

Ye Yizhou explained that he had built his showbiz persona by following advice from a Zhihu post, insisting his success came from research and data rather than mysticism. After saying he had achieved his goal in showbiz and was done pretending, he offered the livestream viewers genuine industry gossip in return for helping answer his question.

• Ye Yizhou recalled a popular Zhihu reply recommending a soft, adorable airheaded beauty persona, and viewers found the post under his username, One Leaf, One Boat.
• Director Ji questioned whether Ye Yizhou had really relied on Zhihu to become a showbiz legend, and Ye Yizhou defended his research-based approach.
• Ye Yizhou claimed his fame proved the persona had worked and said he had achieved his goal in showbiz, so he was done pretending.
• Ye Yizhou directed viewers to his explanation from the dating show's first episode and thanked them for resolving a question that had bothered him.
• Ye Yizhou offered to share genuine showbiz gossip with the livestream viewers as a return favor.

Ye Yizhou addressed livestream viewers’ gossip requests and explained why Zhou Niansheng had been mocked online for not recognizing stinky tofu and river snail rice noodles. He defended the eighteen-year-old newcomer and condemned the abusive comments targeting him.

• Ye Yizhou said he would share gossip about people who had trended alongside him, while Director Ji voiced concern that the livestream might be shut down.
• Viewers asked Ye Yizhou about Zhou Niansheng, who was trending with him under an “airheaded beauty” topic, and Ye Yizhou watched the clip that had prompted the mockery.
• Ye Yizhou said Zhou Niansheng was not pretending to be naive: he had grown up abroad and genuinely had not seen the foods he mistook for spoiled.
• Ye Yizhou explained that Zhou Niansheng had worried about people eating the unfamiliar food and offered to help them, calling him cute.
• Ye Yizhou condemned the thousands of abusive comments mocking Zhou Niansheng for his cultural gaps and said he had not deserved them.

Ye Yizhou explained that he was extremely vindictive and openly praised Zhou Niansheng, then pressured Entertainment Emperor Entertainment to respond to the online attacks against him. After the company issued a lawyer’s letter, Ye Yizhou ended the seminar and played a romance drama on the livestream instead of focusing on the dating show.

• Ye Yizhou told Director Ji and the livestream viewers that he was vindictive and had a stellar reputation.
• Ye Yizhou enthusiastically praised Zhou Niansheng’s looks and personality, prompting viewers to comment on their supposed rivalry.
• Ye Yizhou called Entertainment Emperor Entertainment and demanded that it handle the online attacks against Zhou Niansheng.
• Yuhuang Entertainment Company posted a lawyer’s letter threatening legal action against people abusing and slandering Zhou Niansheng.
• Ye Yizhou ended the seminar and played a romance drama on the livestream, while Director Ji tried to draw viewers back to the dating show.

Ye Yizhou turned his confrontation with Director Ji into a potential teaser, then criticized the Guests’ cooking segment and accepted Director Ji’s challenge to make it more exciting. He left the livestream to arrange something in secret, hinting that the Guests were in for trouble.

• Ye Yizhou stopped his argument with Director Ji and suggested editing the exchange into a teaser to attract viewers.
• Director Ji praised Ye Yizhou’s publicity instincts as viewers joked about the teaser in the livestream comments.
• Ye Yizhou spotted flames in the Guests’ kitchen, and Director Ji hurried the crew to deal with the burning pan.
• Ye Yizhou criticized the cooking segment for wasting food and failing to create romance, until Director Ji told him to do better himself.
• Ye Yizhou accepted Director Ji’s challenge, then told the crew to follow the original plan while he made arrangements off-camera.

On the final day of Dating Show Livestream’s installment, Director Ji took the guests on a sponsor-funded trip in a stretch Rolls-Royce. The guests relaxed on the two-hour drive, while Jiang Chuyu rebuffed Song Jincheng’s flirtation, and Director Ji hinted that the production would stream something else during their rest.

• Director Ji announced that a major investor would cover the day’s expenses and led the guests to a stretch Rolls-Royce waiting outside the villa complex.
• The guests boarded the luxurious vehicle, enjoyed its roomy seats and refreshments, and marveled at the sponsor’s wealth.
• Song Jincheng offered Jiang Chuyu a peeled grape, but Jiang Chuyu declined and awkwardly ate the grape skins he had left behind.
• Pei Lan asked about the drive, and Director Ji said it would take two hours and that the guests could rest while their microphones and cameras were turned off.
• Director Ji said the livestream would show something else while the guests rested, leaving them puzzled about what was planned.