Chapter Summaries

After the dating show’s guests parted for a seven-day break, Xie Lin and Lu Ye went to notarize the property transfer and headed out for dinner. Lu Ye kissed and marked Xie Lin in an alley, but their attempts to disguise themselves for the night market drew ridicule, so Lu Ye took Xie Lin to change.

• Director Sha assigned the guests to film and post vlogs during the seven-day break, then sent them off as the livestream season ended.
• Xie Lin and Lu Ye went to a notary office, where Xie Lin received the deed and notarized document for the property in his name.
• Lu Ye took Xie Lin to a quiet alley, kissed him, and marked his neck, telling him, “You’re mine.”
• Xie Lin proposed disguises so they could visit the night market without being recognized, but their first attempt caused a commotion when people mistook them for robbers.
• Xie Lin and Lu Ye tried a second disguise as a blind fortune-teller and Living Buddha Ji Gong, but passersby laughed at them, so Lu Ye hauled Xie Lin off to change.

Xie Lin and Lu Ye spent the evening eating and playing together, then Lu Ye booked Xie Lin a hotel room before leaving. On his way home the next morning, Xie Lin asked Lu Ye about Wu Xinyou and learned that the Wu family forbade Omegas from choosing their own marriages.

• Xie Lin and Lu Ye ate their way through food stalls, teased each other about money and appearance, and joked about Xie Lin being Lu Ye's wife.
• When a little boy demanded Xie Lin's spiral potato, Xie Lin refused, then warned the boy's grandfather about children buying test answers to discourage the boy's misbehavior.
• Lu Ye left after taking a phone call and booked Xie Lin a nearby hotel room; Xie Lin checked in and later sent Lu Ye away after he kissed him.
• Xie Lin headed home the next morning and messaged Lu Ye about Wu Xinyou and Jin Tiancheng acting strangely.
• Lu Ye told Xie Lin that Wu Xinyou could not win Jin Tiancheng over because the Wu family did not allow Omegas to choose their own marriages.

Xie Lin rejected Fu Yunxi’s attempt to reconcile and learned the Fu family was struggling after angering the Lu family. As Lu Ye showed up at the greenhouse, Wen Xubai ordered Uncle Nian to throw him out.

• Xie Lin greeted Xie Yanqiu and Wen Xubai at home, then struck Fu Yunxi with a stone and sent him away when he tried to apologize.
• Xie Lin agreed to attend an auction hosted by the Jiang Family and messaged Jiang Song to ask whether he had divorced Fu Yingying.
• Jiang Song confirmed that he and Fu Yingying were divorced, and Xie Lin celebrated the news with his grandfathers.
• Xie Yanqiu told Xie Lin that the Fu family had suffered after offending the Lu family, prompting Xie Lin to wonder how Fu Yunxi had angered Lu Ye.
• Lu Ye was caught sneaking around the greenhouse to see Xie Lin, and Wen Xubai ordered Uncle Nian to throw him out.

Lu Ye tried to win Wen Xubai’s approval and arranged to attend the Jiang family auction with Xie Lin. As Xie Lin prepared to leave, Qin Zheng revealed that Jiang was also coming and had been publicly boasting about their 93 percent compatibility.

• Lu Ye left after Uncle Nian explained that Wen Xubai would not accept him easily, then persuaded Jiang Si to get him into the auction because Xie Lin would be there.
• Wen Xubai told Uncle Nian to keep turning Lu Ye away, while Xie Lin laughed at Lu Ye’s departure.
• Xie Lin learned that Wu Xinyou had dropped out of the dating show and agreed to help film a vlog with Lu Zhenzhen and Lu Ye.
• Xie Lin reflected on Xie Yanqiu’s past as a trader and the history behind the Jiang family’s auction invitation.
• The next evening, Qin Zheng arrived to drive Xie Lin to the auction and said Jiang would join them later.
• Qin Zheng thought about how Jiang had been dressing carefully and telling people about his 93 percent compatibility with Xie Lin.

Xie Lin attended an auction with Lu Ye and faced insults from Fu Yunxi’s mother and another woman, whom Lu Ye threw into a pool. Lu Ye demanded that they kneel and apologize to his wife, but Xie Lin sent them home instead; afterward, Lu Ye flirted over Xie Lin’s outfit and got beaten for his suggestive request to keep it.

• Xie Lin arrived at the auction in Lu Ye’s car and encountered Fu Yunxi and Wu Meibing, who questioned how he had gotten an invitation.
• Xie Lin overheard Zhao Yating and another woman insulting him beside the pool and turned to confront them.
• Lu Ye kicked Zhao Yating into the pool, then threw the other woman in when she tried to speak.
• Lu Ye demanded that the women kneel and apologize to Xie Lin, but Xie Lin told the organizer to send them home; Fu Yunxi then took his mother away.
• Lu Ye admired Xie Lin’s fitted suit and asked to keep it as a collectible, so Xie Lin realized his suggestive intent and hit him.

Xie Lin and Lu Ye joined a livestreamed special event for Heartbeat Time Difference, where the guests played storytelling games and Werewolf. Xie Lin claimed to be the seer after Fu Yunxi died, and the players pressed him to reveal whom he had checked.

• Xie Lin arrived at the private room and found Director Sha, the other guests, and cameras set up for a livestreamed special event.
• Jiang Si introduced himself as the auction host and joked that Lu Ye had forced him off the show to pursue someone.
• The guests played two rounds of a romantic story game, and Xie Lin punctured the substitute-lover plot by demanding that the CEO simply buy a plane ticket.
• The guests began a special Dating Show game of Werewolf, and Fu Yunxi was eliminated on the first night.
• Fu Yunxi accused Xie Lin of killing him, but Xie Lin claimed to be the seer, prompting Jiang Si to identify Fu Yunxi as a self-targeting werewolf.
• Yue Lan asked the seer to reveal whom they had checked, and everyone turned to Xie Lin.

Xie Lin and the others played Werewolf before bidding on collectibles at a charity auction, where his bids repeatedly frustrated Wu Meibing. After Wu Meibing won the final item, she hinted that an omega upstairs was partying with several alphas, stirring gossip.

• Xie Lin revealed that Lu Zhenzhen was the wolf, but the group lost the round after he and Lu Ye wrongly accused Jiang Si.
• The group played a second round, and Xie Lin was eliminated early as the good side lost again.
• With Yue Lan's permission, Xie Lin bid twenty-two million for an antique vase and sixty-one million for jewelry, outbidding Wu Meibing.
• Wu Meibing won a jade Go set for one hundred and eleven million after an upstairs bidder raised the price, then learned that an omega upstairs was with several alphas.
• Wu Meibing told her father she was going upstairs to check on her omega friend, prompting nearby guests to gossip about the omega's behavior.

Wu Meibing led a crowd upstairs to catch Xie Lin supposedly fooling around with several alphas, but they found him and Lu Ye playing Werewolf with friends while a variety show crew filmed. Xie Lin challenged Wu Meibing to identify who she thought he was cheating with and demanded to know who had given her the false story.

• Wu Meibing told the gathered crowd that she was worried about Xie Lin and led them upstairs to listen at the door.
• The crowd heard shouting and banging, but Xie Lin opened the door to reveal a chaotic Werewolf game and a filming setup.
• Wu Meibing realized Director Sha was filming a variety show, while Xie Lin exposed her accusation to the crowd and viewers.
• Xie Lin sarcastically named the alphas in the room as possible partners, and Lu Ye declared that cuddling and fooling around with his wife was natural.
• The crowd turned on Wu Meibing and demanded to know who had told her Xie Lin was having group sex, while Xie Lin asked her to clear things up on camera.

Xie Lin forced Wu Meibing to apologize publicly after her attempt to expose him backfired, then learned that Youyou had blocked him and Jin Tiancheng. As Xie Lin left with Lu Zhenzhen, a car tried to hit him, but he avoided it and the sedan crashed into a tree.

• Wu Zheng slapped Wu Meibing and agreed that she would apologize to Xie Lin publicly and on Weibo.
• Wu Meibing posted an apology, but netizens turned against her, costing her three million followers as the hashtag calling for her to leave the entertainment industry topped the trending list.
• Jin Tiancheng told Xie Lin that Youyou had blocked him too, and Xie Lin promised to look into it.
• Lu Zhenzhen invited Xie Lin to visit a hot spring resort with her and Lu Ye the next day.
• A black sedan sped toward Xie Lin, and Lu Zhenzhen shoved him out of its path before he knocked her aside to save her.
• Xie Lin vaulted over the sedan as it struck a tree, then told Lu Zhenzhen to call the police.

After He Jianing tried to run Xie Lin down, Xie Lin learned He Jianing had died and watched public opinion turn against the victim’s family’s accusations. He suspected Wu Meibing had arranged the attack and wondered how she and He Jianing had joined forces.

• Lu Ye checked that Xie Lin was unharmed, and police found He Jianing unconscious in the crashed car after he deliberately drove at Xie Lin.
• He Jianing died at the hospital, and his parents accused the doctor and Xie Lin of causing his death.
• Online commenters blamed Xie Lin, but his fans flooded the haters’ accounts and Zhao Dan saw public opinion shift in his favor.
• Lu Ye escaped through the window when Wen Xubai came to Xie Lin’s room, and Wen Xubai later admitted he had let Lu Ye off because he owed him for helping that evening.
• Xie Lin questioned how He Jianing had known where and when to attack him and suspected Wu Meibing had worked with him.

Xie Lin discovered that Mi Ziqi had accidentally shared explicit Lu Ye and Xie Lin fan works in the Battle-Damaged Brothers group, then asked to join a fan group under an alternate account. He opened a newly shared cultivation-world story and found it was a sweet account of his and Lu Ye’s everyday life, leaving him curious about what would happen next.

• Xie Lin learned from Mi Ziqi that he had accidentally posted a five-thousand-character essay and fan art of Xie Lin and Lu Ye in the Battle-Damaged Brothers group.
• Xie Lin downloaded and viewed the fan art and essay, then asked Mi Ziqi to add him to the Lu Lin Super Topic Group 3 using an alternate account.
• Xie Lin joined the fan group and saw its members celebrate a newly shared fanfiction link.
• Xie Lin read the beginning of a cultivation-world story in which he was Wuwang Peak’s master and Lu Ye was his seemingly obedient disciple.

Xie Lin went on a vlog outing with Lu Ye and Lu Zhenzhen, while secretly reading smut and fan art that left him blushing around Lu Ye. A group chat revealed that Xie Yanqiu had once been pursued by Xiao Ji, whom Wen Xubai had beaten up, and the car ride ended with Lu Ye suspicious of Xie Lin’s private messages.

• Xie Lin read a steamy story at breakfast and made up an excuse for his flushed face when Xie Yanqiu asked about it.
• Lu Ye picked Xie Lin and Lu Zhenzhen up for their outing, and Lu Zhenzhen teased him for spending hours choosing his outfit to impress Xie Lin’s family.
• Xie Lin found out in the battle-damaged buddies group chat that Xiao Lie’s grandfather was Xiao Ji, the old friend Xie Yanqiu and Wen Xubai had recently encountered.
• Lu Ye noticed Xie Lin laughing at his phone, then grew suspicious when Xie Lin blushed and hid the screen.
• Lu Zhenzhen asked who Xie Lin was chatting with, and he denied it while concealing that he had downloaded fan art.

Lu Ye and Xie Lin visited a hot spring resort with Lu Zhenzhen, where Lu Ye’s hopes for a private soak turned into a possessive neck bite after Xie Lin climbed over the partition to help him. Lu Ye carried the exhausted Xie Lin back to their room, treated his neck, and left before he gave in to temptation.

• Lu Zhenzhen teased Lu Ye about his pursuit of Xie Lin, while Shen Qing'an and Lu Tianyang offered meddling advice in their family chat.
• Lu Ye, Xie Lin, and Lu Zhenzhen explored the resort and filmed a vlog, then Lu Ye fed Xie Lin at lunch.
• Xie Lin chose a private hot spring pool, but climbed over the partition after hearing Lu Ye splash and claim he had fallen.
• Lu Ye pulled Xie Lin into his arms, bit his neck, and complained that Xie Lin was not allowed to think about anyone else.
• Lu Zhenzhen found Lu Ye carrying a flushed, exhausted Xie Lin back to their room and teased him about how quickly they were done.
• Lu Ye put a bandage on the back of Xie Lin’s neck and quietly left the room to keep himself from doing more.

After learning Wu Xinyou was getting engaged in seven days, Xie Lin launched Operation Save Youyou and went to confront him with Lu Zhenzhen. They reached the Wu family villa, but the butler refused to let them see him.

• Xie Lin watched Lu Zhenzhen's vlog and saw fans misinterpret its ending, while Lu Ye confronted her for the edit.
• Lu Ye received word that Wu Xinyou was getting engaged in seven days, and Xie Lin blamed Lu Ye for contributing to the situation.
• Xie Lin proposed visiting Wu Xinyou to learn what he wanted, and Lu Ye agreed to take them to his home.
• Xie Lin invited Jin Tiancheng to join their visit, and Jin Tiancheng agreed to meet them.
• Xie Lin disguised himself as Lu Zhenzhen's bodyguard, but the butler turned them away at the villa gates.

Lu Zhenzhen and Xie Lin forced their way into the Wu family residence to ask Wu Xinyou whether he wanted his arranged engagement. After Wu Xinyou admitted he did not, Xie Lin urged him to leave with them.

• Lu Zhenzhen threatened to bring an excavator unless the Wu family let her see Wu Xinyou, and the butler allowed her and Xie Lin inside.
• The butler led Lu Zhenzhen and Xie Lin to a separate building, where Wu Xinyou came out from the ancestral hall.
• Xie Lin frightened the butler into giving them five minutes alone with Wu Xinyou by kicking the head off a stone lion.
• Wu Xinyou explained that his parents had confined him and arranged his engagement after he failed to pursue Lu Ye on the dating show.
• Xie Lin told Wu Xinyou that Jin Tiancheng and Lu Ye were outside, then asked whether he wanted the engagement.
• Wu Xinyou loudly declared that he did not want the engagement, and Xie Lin told him they should leave.

Xie Lin rescued Wu Xinyou from the Wu family with Lu Zhenzhen and Jin Tiancheng, then lost their pursuers by leading everyone to Green Pine Cemetery. The group rested there, where Xie Lin frightened Lu Zhenzhen and started filming Jin Tiancheng and Wu Xinyou.

• Lu Ye secretly asked Qin Zheng to investigate the people his wife had been contacting on social media.
• Xie Lin carried Wu Xinyou out of the Wu family villa, and Lu Zhenzhen helped get her into the car while Zhan Ying was left behind with cab fare from Lu Ye.
• Jin Tiancheng saw that Wu Xinyou's knees were badly bruised and bleeding, and Xie Lin delayed taking her to the hospital until they had shaken off the Wu family's cars.
• Xie Lin drove the group to Green Pine Cemetery, explained that his parents had once been buried there, and confirmed they had lost their pursuers.
• Xie Lin spooked Lu Zhenzhen with his flashlight, and after she recovered, he began filming Jin Tiancheng and Wu Xinyou for a vlog.

Xie Lin and Wu Xinyou humiliated Wu Shichu and escaped with their friends to Wu Xinyou’s hidden downtown apartment. Lu Zhenzhen edited the cemetery footage into a horror-style video that appeared on the show’s official Weibo account.

• Xie Lin played a suona as the group left the cemetery, and Wu Xinyou said she would not return to the Wu family home.
• Wu Shichu confronted Wu Xinyou and demanded that she come home, but she refused and rejected his threats.
• Xie Lin and Wu Xinyou threw dog and cow dung at Wu Shichu, then the group escaped in the Maybach as he vomited.
• The group went to Wu Xinyou’s secret downtown apartment, where Lu Zhenzhen edited their cemetery footage.
• At two thirty in the morning, Lu Zhenzhen’s horror-style video appeared on Heartbeat Time Difference’s official Weibo account and startled viewers.

Xie Lin and Lu Ye left Wu Xinyou’s home after Jin Tiancheng and Lu Ye agreed to work together against the Wu family. On the way back, Lu Ye joined Xie Lin’s group chat, and the two celebrated Qixi with a flower and a kiss.

• Xie Lin, Lu Zhenzhen, and Wu Xinyou watched Director Sha’s horror-show vlog comment, while Lu Ye pulled Xie Lin away.
• Jin Tiancheng asked Wu Xinyou whether she would interfere with his plan to destroy the Wu family, and she refused.
• Jin Tiancheng offered Lu Ye help acquiring a valuable plot, and Lu Ye agreed to work with him and ordered a real-name tax evasion report against the Wu family.
• Lu Ye discovered Xie Lin’s “Battle-Damaged Brothers” group, asked to join, and was approved after Xie Lin identified him to Mi Ziqi.
• Fu Yunxi called Xie Lin to wish him a happy Valentine’s Day, but Xie Lin hung up and blacklisted him.
• Xie Lin gave Lu Ye a little pink flower for Qixi, and Lu Ye accepted it before kissing him.

Lu Ye and Xie Lin spent Valentine’s Day together, and Xie Lin agreed to introduce Lu Ye to his parents after Lu Ye earned Elder Great-Grandfather’s approval. At the golf course, Lu Ye went to arrange flowers while Xie Lin told his friends he thought he was in love.

• Lu Ye kissed Xie Lin in the car, then sent Lu Zhenzhen off to find her own ride.
• Lu Ye asked Xie Lin to take him to meet his parents, and Xie Lin agreed on the condition that Elder Great-Grandfather approve first.
• Lu Ye took Xie Lin to the Suburban Golf Course, where Jiang Si, Mu Huazhang, and Yan Su teased him for spending Valentine’s Day with his wife.
• Lu Ye went to arrange flowers, while Xie Lin messaged his friends that he thought he was in love.

Xie Lin overheard Wu Meibing and Fu Yingying discussing a badge that might be connected to Lu Ye, leaving him troubled by the possibility that it was the badge he possessed. When a man harassed and attacked Xie Lin, Lu Ye intervened and punished him for raising a hand against Xie Lin.

• Xie Lin secretly listened as Wu Meibing and Fu Yingying argued over their failed plans and discussed a badge connected to Lu Ye.
• Xie Lin wondered whether the badge they mentioned was the one he had and headed to find Lu Ye.
• President Huang harassed Xie Lin and offered to buy him for a night, so Xie Lin mocked him with funeral-service prices.
• When President Huang tried to slap Xie Lin, Xie Lin kicked him down, and Lu Ye stepped on his head.
• Jiang Si identified the man as President Huang of Jianfa Industries, but Lu Ye crushed his fingers and warned him never to raise a hand against Xie Lin.