Chapter Summaries

Xie Lin refused Wu Meibing’s request to hear him sing, leaving her responsible for cooking, while Lu Ye focused on making beef noodles for his wife. Later, Xie Lin confronted Fu Yunxi with a question about their past, leaving the answer unresolved.

• Wu Xinyou’s card asked to hear Xie Lin sing, but Xie Lin refused, making Wu Meibing the only guest who failed her task.
• Fu Yunxi offered to help Wu Meibing cook, while Lu Ye declined and went to make beef noodles for Xie Lin.
• Xie Lin asked Zhan Ying to investigate Wu Meibing, and Zhan Ying and Qin Zheng realized she had once been the fiancée arranged for Lu Ye by the old master.
• Lu Ye made Xie Lin a basin of beef noodles, while Wu Meibing and Fu Yunxi struggled to prepare six dishes and a soup.
• Xie Lin went to Fu Yunxi’s door and asked whether he had ever attended Qingyuan Noble School.

After Fu Yunxi revealed he had never attended Qingyuan, Xie Lin realized he had mistaken him for the person he remembered and found hope in his old school badge. Lu Ye learned Xie Lin was searching for an alpha and, despite his jealousy, resolved to find and kill the man before Xie Lin could reunite with him.

• Fu Yunxi told Xie Lin that he had never attended Qingyuan, leaving Xie Lin shaken as he realized Fu Yunxi was not his Pretty Older Brother.
• Lu Ye carried the distraught Xie Lin upstairs, where Xie Lin found his Qingyuan badge and celebrated that his Pretty Older Brother was someone else.
• Lu Ye saw the badge and said he had attended Qingyuan, then offered to help Xie Lin search for the alpha he remembered.
• Lu Ye grew jealous and silently resolved to find and kill Xie Lin’s first love, while Xie Lin remained unaware of his plan.

Xie Lin and Lu Ye joined the afternoon blindfolded game, with Xie Lin attacking while Lu Ye guided him. Xie Lin relentlessly struck Fu Yunxi’s team, leaving Wu Meibing hurt and Fu Yunxi protesting even after they lost.

• Xie Lin came downstairs with Lu Ye, prompting the guests and livestream viewers to speculate about why his eyes were red.
• Fu Yunxi confronted Xie Lin, who cursed at him, while Director Sha tried to stop him from swearing on the livestream.
• Lu Ye read Qin Zheng’s messages about a Wu Family young lady and a fiancée, called Qin Zheng, and returned looking relieved.
• Director Sha explained the blindfolded game and assigned Lu Ye and Xie Lin to attack while the other teams dodged.
• Lu Ye blindfolded Xie Lin and gave him directions as he charged at Fu Yunxi and Wu Meibing.
• Xie Lin struck Fu Yunxi repeatedly until Wu Meibing fell and appeared injured, then continued hitting Fu Yunxi before lifting his blindfold and apologizing.

Xie Lin dominated the hammer game, then noticed Lu Ye’s mood and asked whether he remembered what happened ten years earlier. The show moved on to audience questions that would determine dinner ingredients, and Xie Lin’s answer about work and begging won the viewers’ approval.

• Xie Lin defeated Jin Tiancheng and Wu Xinyou in the hammer game, then surrendered to Yue Lan and Yu Zhiwei.
• Fu Yunxi asked why Xie Lin had singled him out, while Wu Meibing downplayed her injury and the live comments debated who was to blame.
• Xie Lin noticed Lu Ye’s bitter-scented pheromones and asked about ten years earlier; Lu Ye said his memories from the year he differentiated were unclear.
• Wu Meibing concluded that Xie Lin cared about what happened ten years ago and considered how to use that information.
• Director Sha announced that audience interaction would affect dinner, and Xie Lin’s joke contrasting begging with working satisfied the viewers.

Xie Lin challenged Wu Meibing’s advice to a bullied student, then won ingredients with his bizarre answers and affirmed that he and Lu Ye were a couple. After the cast planned a short drama, Xie Lin caught a faint peach scent outside his door at midnight and cautiously opened it.

• Wu Meibing told a bullied student not to dwell on the abuse and suggested the experience might make her stronger, but Xie Lin rebuked her and offered to help the student address the bullying.
• Xie Lin answered several audience questions with absurd jokes and won more than a dozen portions of ingredients.
• Xie Lin asked Lu Ye to cook with the ingredients, called them a couple, and requested tomato and beef brisket noodles with plenty of cilantro.
• The director asked the cast to plan a short drama, and Fu Yunxi agreed to prepare a script outline for the next morning.
• After midnight, Xie Lin heard a quiet voice outside his room, smelled a sweet peach scent, and opened the door a crack.

Wu Meibing tried to use a false engagement and her pheromones to seduce Lu Ye, but Xie Lin stopped her and Lu Ye claimed he had recorded the incident. Wu Meibing was left exposed and humiliated while Lu Ye clung to Xie Lin.

• Wu Meibing claimed she had known Lu Ye since high school and that Grandpa Lu had arranged their engagement.
• Lu Ye called Grandpa Lu, who clarified that he had only asked Wu Zheng about his daughter's pheromone compatibility and had never arranged an engagement.
• Wu Meibing deliberately released her pheromones, but Xie Lin confronted her with a gas mask and high-powered blower while Lu Ye hid behind him.
• Xie Lin's blower forced Wu Meibing toward the stairs, and Lu Ye tripped her so she tumbled into the first-floor hall.
• Lu Ye told the gathered staff that Wu Meibing had tried to seduce him, then said he had recorded what happened.

After Wu Meibing’s attempt to target Lu Ye, he ordered the Wu Family destroyed and reassured Xie Lin that he had not been unfaithful. The two shared a bed for Yu Zhiwei’s task, and the chapter ended with Fu Yunxi preparing a short-drama outline.

• The staff took Wu Meibing to her room, and Lu Ye dismissed the idea of calling the police before ordering Qin Zheng to destroy the Wu Family.
• Lu Ye returned to Xie Lin’s room to apologize, and they shared a bed for Yu Zhiwei’s task.
• Xie Lin woke in Lu Ye’s arms, while Lu Ye privately admitted he had crossed the line and pulled Xie Lin close during the night.
• Yu Zhiwei checked on Lu Ye and Xie Lin, then excitedly told Yue Lan about them.
• Fu Yunxi looked over his short-drama outline, titled “The Pure-Hearted Young Marshal Is Passionate.”

Fu Yunxi’s Republican-era romance script turned into a chaotic improv contest, with Xie Lin cast as the young marshal’s scheming concubine and the guests split into teams trying to unite or separate the couple. Xie Lin derailed the wedding plot by offering to marry off his son for money, then attacked Fu Yunxi in an over-the-top farewell scene.

• Fu Yunxi handed out his script, and Xie Lin discovered he had been cast as a beautiful young widow who wanted to sabotage his stepson’s marriage; Xie Lin tried to hit Fu Yunxi with a chair.
• The Director divided the guests into teams tasked with bringing the young marshal and Fourth Miss together or breaking them apart, with food as the prize.
• Fu Yunxi began the scene with Wu Meibing as the young marshal and Fourth Miss, while Yue Lan and Lu Zhenzhen disrupted the romantic setup with improvised jokes.
• Wu Xinyou and Jin Tiancheng exposed the young marshal’s history of bringing men home, and Lu Zhenzhen added more embarrassing claims about his preferences.
• Xie Lin agreed to the marriage, then demanded money from Wu Meibing before enthusiastically accepting ten thousand yuan and declaring the young marshal a bargain.
• Xie Lin tearfully lunged at Fu Yunxi and pounded his chest, forcing the production team to pull them apart.

The guests derailed the dating show with a chaotic Republican-era roleplay, prompting Director Sha to plan a new approach after their antics trended online. Meanwhile, Wu Meibing contacted He Jianing and offered to help him get revenge on Xie Lin, and He Jianing demanded Xie Lin’s death.

• Lu Ye claimed to be Fu Yunxi’s father and, with Yu Zhiwei’s help, improvised a story that ended with him shooting Fu Yunxi with a plastic AK.
• Jin Tiancheng took the AK and shot Wu Meibing, declaring that the young marshal would not go to the underworld alone.
• Director Sha treated the guests to lunch, then saw their show trending for chaos rather than romance and began drafting a new plan.
• Wu Meibing called He Jianing and offered to help him take revenge on Xie Lin.
• He Jianing, hiding with a badly infected facial wound after his scandals and assault, blamed Xie Lin and demanded that he die.

Xie Lin joined Lu Ye and Fu Yunxi for a team game after Director Sha assigned the three men together. Xie Lin knocked both rivals away, finished most of the biscuit, then spat out the part Fu Yunxi had bitten into a trash can, leaving Fu Yunxi protesting the loophole.

• Fu Yunxi confronted Xie Lin and criticized Lu Ye, but Lu Ye appeared and drew Xie Lin close.
• Director Sha announced teams of three after Fu Yunxi paid him to be teamed with Xie Lin, then put Fu Yunxi, Xie Lin, and Lu Ye together.
• The three men began the biscuit challenge, each biting one end of a Mercedes-shaped biscuit as Lu Ye and Fu Yunxi prepared to shove each other away.
• Xie Lin punched Lu Ye and Fu Yunxi back, then ate the biscuit until only the piece between his teeth remained.
• Xie Lin spat the last piece into a trash can held by Lu Ye, and he argued that this did not break the rule against dropping it on the floor.

The groups finished the biscuit challenge, and Director Sha assigned cars to the successful groups and bicycles to Jin Tiancheng’s group. As they set off for the next filming location, Xie Lin and Lu Ye refused Fu Yunxi’s offer to help Wu Meibing, and Lu Ye claimed he had evidence that she had tried to seduce him with pheromones.

• Lu Ye celebrated that his wife had eaten the biscuit end he had bitten, while Fu Yunxi lamented losing ten million.
• Yue Lan, Yu Zhiwei, and Lu Zhenzhen finished their biscuit challenge without letting their mouths touch.
• Jin Tiancheng and Wu Xinyou forfeited the challenge, and Jin Tiancheng said he would not betray his feelings for Wu Xinyou.
• Director Sha assigned cars to Xie Lin’s and Yue Lan’s groups and bicycles to Jin Tiancheng’s group.
• Jin Tiancheng said he would give Wu Xinyou a ride, leaving Wu Meibing to ride a bicycle herself.
• Xie Lin rejected Fu Yunxi’s offer to take Wu Meibing along, and Lu Ye accused her of using pheromones to seduce him and said he had evidence.

Lu Ye confronted Wu Meibing over deliberately releasing pheromones and offered to prove it with a detector, while Xie Lin and others backed him. Wu Meibing’s father revealed the Wu Family was already suffering severe losses and ordered her to apologize and leave the show, leaving her collapsed as Lu Ye asked to show the evidence.

• Wu Meibing apologized to Lu Ye but insisted that Xie Lin had injured her and that they were even.
• Lu Ye revealed his Custom Pheromone Detector could record pheromone traces for a year and offered to show the evidence.
• Fu Yunxi urged Lu Ye to show mercy, but Xie Lin, Yue Lan, and Jin Tiancheng supported Lu Ye and demanded proof.
• Wu Zheng called the director and shouted at Wu Meibing, saying the Wu Family’s projects had fallen through and its stock had hit limit down.
• Wu Zheng ordered Wu Meibing to kneel and apologize to Lu Ye and withdraw from the show, then said he would seek Lu Tianyang’s help.
• Wu Meibing collapsed, and Lu Ye asked whether they could begin showing the evidence as the live comments called for her to leave the entertainment industry.

Wu Meibing apologized to Lu Ye but was neither forgiven nor allowed to quit filming, while the crew moved on to a garden fair costume shoot. After the other guests revealed their outfits, Xie Lin finally opened the curtain on his own look, leaving everyone waiting to see what he would wear.

• Wu Meibing begged Lu Ye to spare her family, but he rejected her apology and asked the director to continue filming.
• Lu Ye offered to buy the production team new phones, and the guests traveled to the garden fair; Wu Meibing had to walk after losing the bicycle challenge.
• The guests revealed costumes from different historical settings, including Lu Zhenzhen in a dragon robe and Jin Tiancheng and Wu Xinyou in Miao outfits.
• Fu Yunxi emerged in a Republican-era military uniform and waited for Tao Miaomiao, who did not come out when he urged her.
• Xie Lin snapped open the curtain after a pale finger appeared, leaving the guests and viewers anticipating Tao Miaomiao's reveal.

Xie Lin and Lu Ye appeared in ridiculous historical and wizard costumes before Director Sha introduced a park-wide undercover game. After drawing cards, they discovered they were the two undercover players, while the others held safe cards, and Xie Lin used ambiguous clues to keep the group guessing.

• Xie Lin dressed as Guan Yunchang and made Lu Ye dress as Snape, prompting Director Sha to lament that the show was trending again.
• Director Sha explained a team game in which players had to identify their teammates, collect tokens, and steal tokens from the opposing team.
• The contestants drew cards, revealing that Yue Lan, Yu Zhiwei, Fu Yunxi, Wu Meibing, Jin Tiancheng, Wu Xinyou, and Lu Zhenzhen had safe cards, while Xie Lin and Lu Ye had coffin cards.
• Wu Meibing used a bribed production assistant's information to suspect Xie Lin and asked him to describe his card.
• Xie Lin and Lu Ye described the coffin as a container for valuables, leading Lu Zhenzhen to mistakenly believe her brother was on her team and leaving Wu Meibing confused.

Wu Meibing tried to expose Xie Lin as the undercover agent, but Xie Lin and Lu Ye answered the NPC passwords and turned suspicion back on her. Lu Ye then used a hidden task as an excuse to sneak away with Xie Lin, leaving Fu Yunxi and Wu Meibing behind.

• Wu Meibing joined Xie Lin, Lu Ye, and Fu Yunxi to search for NPCs, hoping to prove Xie Lin was undercover.
• Xie Lin and Lu Ye supplied Wu Meibing's passwords, collected tokens, and prompted her to accuse them of being undercover agents.
• Yue Lan, Yu Zhiwei, and Lu Zhenzhen discussed who might be undercover, while Jin Tiancheng and Wu Xinyou decided to vote for Fu Yunxi and Wu Meibing without giving a reason.
• Lu Ye received a hidden task to hold hands with a companion unnoticed and signaled Xie Lin to help him complete it.
• After Xie Lin joked about defecating outside Fu Yunxi's home, he and Lu Ye ran deeper into the park, leaving Fu Yunxi and Wu Meibing behind.

Lu Ye tricked Xie Lin into hugging him, then the pair collected tokens as the other guests began identifying Wu Meibing and Fu Yunxi as the undercover agents. The chapter ended with the guests demanding a vote.

• Lu Ye claimed his hidden task was to hug his partner for ten minutes, and he embraced Xie Lin until the director interrupted them.
• A staff member revealed that Lu Ye had completed no such task, while Wu Meibing arrived and saw the pair together.
• Lu Ye and Xie Lin gathered tokens from Jin Tiancheng, Wu Xinyou, Lu Zhenzhen, Yue Lan, and Yu Zhiwei.
• Wu Meibing accused Lu Ye and Xie Lin of being the undercovers, but the guests countered by accusing her and Fu Yunxi.
• The guests called on Director Sha to start a vote against Wu Meibing and Fu Yunxi.

Director Sha announced a gift exchange as filming neared its end, and Lu Ye took Xie Lin shopping at the Lu family's mall. There, Xie Lin ran into Fu Yingying and turned her attempt to embarrass him with an extravagant purchase into a public announcement that she was buying ties for everyone.

• Director Sha announced the gift exchange, and the group traveled to the city center to choose gifts for the people they liked.
• Fu Yunxi offered to take Xie Lin to the Fu family's mall and pay for his gifts, but Lu Ye mocked his finances and led Xie Lin to the Lu family's mall instead.
• While Lu Ye took a phone call, Xie Lin encountered Fu Yingying and her two friends in the men's accessories section.
• Fu Yingying ordered several expensive ties and claimed she was buying them for Xie Lin, expecting him to be embarrassed about the cost.
• Xie Lin pulled out a pink megaphone and announced that Fu Yingying was treating everyone to ties, urging the shoppers not to miss the chance.

Xie Lin and Lu Ye returned to the dating show's finale after humiliating Fu Yingying and buying a gift. The guests gathered in a wedding-like venue, where Jin Tiancheng began the gift exchange by giving Wu Meibing a painting and wishing her well.

• Xie Lin used a megaphone to expose Fu Yingying's offer to buy gifts, and she fled with her friends.
• Lu Ye thanked the people who had played along and offered to pay for their purchases, while Xie Lin bought a tie for 3,888.
• Xie Lin and Lu Ye returned to a lavishly decorated venue, which Xie Lin and then Lu Zhenzhen mistook for a second wedding and a divorce celebration.
• Director Sha instructed the guests to exchange gifts and explain their choices, reminding them that recipients could refuse.
• Jin Tiancheng gave Wu Meibing a painting he had made and wished that everything would go smoothly for her.

The cast exchanged gifts, bringing Jin Tiancheng and Wu Xinyou closer and deepening Yue Lan and Yu Zhiwei’s relationship. Lu Zhenzhen gave Xie Lin one million in food vouchers, while Lu Ye scolded her for her suggestive remarks.

• Wu Xinyou accepted Jin Tiancheng’s portrait of him and gave Jin Tiancheng an elaborate set of writing tools, which he treasured.
• Yue Lan gave Yu Zhiwei the addresses and passcodes for her homes, and Yu Zhiwei accepted before presenting Yue Lan with a handmade butterfly brooch.
• Lu Zhenzhen offered Xie Lin a gift, but Lu Ye struck her on the head and warned her to watch her mouth.
• Xie Lin opened Lu Zhenzhen’s gift and found one million in vouchers for food businesses under the Lu family, then declared her his god.
• Lu Zhenzhen retreated to her seat after seeing Lu Ye’s murderous expression, and Lu Ye said she knew what was good for her.

Fu Yunxi and Wu Meibing tried to give gifts to Xie Lin and Lu Ye, but their attempts sparked conflict and drew hostile attention in the live comments. Lu Ye gave Xie Lin a lavish villa, and Xie Lin eagerly agreed to go with him to have the ownership notarized.

• Fu Yunxi tried to give Xie Lin a gift and ask for a private talk, but Xie Lin hid behind Lu Ye, who hit Fu Yunxi with an apple.
• Xie Lin's remarks about Fu Yunxi's sister set off critical comments, and Wu Meibing escorted Fu Yunxi back to his seat after he nearly fainted.
• Wu Meibing presented a gift meant for Lu Ye and claimed she would give it to herself, but Lu Ye called out her reputation-repair scheme and Director Sha had staff remove her.
• Lu Ye gave Xie Lin a property certificate for a furnished 1,302-square-meter villa and asked him to go have the ownership notarized.
• Xie Lin enthusiastically agreed to go at once, then handed Lu Ye his own gift, a tie, which Lu Ye said he would wear later.