Chapter Summaries

Huo Xingye answered the surprise arrival of the “You Make My Heart Flutter” crew at Nan Zhou’s home and hurried to hide an intimate item before the cameras could see it. He woke Nan Zhou for the livestream, and the chapter ended with Tang Tang asking whether Huo Xingye had spent New Year's Eve with him.

• Huo Xingye opened Nan Zhou’s door to Tang Tang and the filming crew, who were surprised to find him there.
• Huo Xingye spotted a paper bag on the living room rug and swiftly hid it in the coffee table before the camera could capture it.
• The crew filmed the living room, where a separate item left by the sofa drew excited speculation from viewers in the livestream chat.
• Huo Xingye went into the bedroom and gently woke Nan Zhou, explaining that the crew was filming outside.
• Nan Zhou complained about the demanding filming schedule, and the crew overheard his remarks through the bedroom door.
• Tang Tang asked Huo Xingye whether he had spent New Year's Eve with Nan Zhou.

Huo Xingye waited at Nan Zhou's home until Nan Zhou woke up, then left for his flight after sharing breakfast with him. Nan Zhou told Huo Xingye to rest, while Tang Tang found a bite guard and learned that M Group had sent it along with other items.

• Huo Xingye arrived at Nan Zhou's home before dawn and waited for him to wake up, despite his assistant warning that he would be late for his flight.
• Nan Zhou came out of his bedroom, struggled to sit comfortably, and answered Tang Tang's questions about New Year's Eve evasively.
• Huo Xingye told Nan Zhou he was leaving and urged him to sleep after filming; Nan Zhou reminded him to rest and not work like a beast of burden.
• After Huo Xingye left, Tang Tang brought out a bite guard she had found under the sofa and asked Nan Zhou about it.
• Nan Zhou said he had not bought the bite guard and explained that M Group had sent it, along with other items on the sofa.

Nan Zhou dealt with the aftermath of his night with Huo Xingye, while Huo Xingye investigated the car accident that had damaged Nan Zhou’s glands. As the show’s next guest was rumored to be Zhang Shi’s fiancée, Gu Tang’s resentment toward Nan Zhou continued to grow.

• Nan Zhou told Hao Jia that he had slept with Huo Xingye because he wanted to, then asked for his physiology handbook to understand why unprotected sex outside his heat was safe.
• Huo Xingye learned that someone had blocked information about Nan Zhou’s car accident three years earlier and suspected there was something unusual about Nan Zhou’s identity.
• Online viewers argued over Nan Zhou’s small home and the show’s guests, while rumors spread that Zhang Shi’s fiancée would appear in the next episode.
• Gu Tang’s agent warned him not to provoke Nan Zhou during the next livestream, and Gu Tang agreed despite resenting Nan Zhou and fearing his confidence.

Nan Zhou spent a rare day at home after the production team changed his schedule, while Huo Xingye made him breakfast before leaving for work. Nan Zhou was assigned to learn songwriting, but he quickly abandoned the tutorials to watch a drama and snack.

• Huo Xingye made breakfast for Nan Zhou, and Nan Zhou asked whether he could train to become as strong as Huo Xingye.
• After breakfast, Huo Xingye went to work, while Nan Zhou stayed home to write songs and perform with the SIXGO band at night.
• Nan Zhou opened a folder of tutorials titled “A step-by-step guide from 0 to 1,” then discovered they were lessons for becoming an independent musician.
• Nan Zhou claimed he had finished learning and sat down to watch a web drama while eating chips and drinking cola.

Nan Zhou watched a romance drama, exercised for the cameras, and then tried to find Huo Xingye’s bathhouse-scene livestream. He accidentally opened Lu Zhou’s stream instead, where Lu Zhou rapped and flirted with the camera to Wen Yu’s clapper talk.

• Nan Zhou called Mischievous Little Immortal Lord hilarious and joked that Deng Yi valued romance over survival, prompting the production crew to make him stop watching.
• When the cameraman suggested singing or dancing, Nan Zhou refused and chose to follow a dumbbell workout video instead.
• Nan Zhou struggled through the exercises and collapsed on the sofa, while the livestream comments admired his flushed appearance.
• The cameraman told Nan Zhou that Huo Xingye was filming a bathhouse scene, and Nan Zhou hurried to open M Platform.
• Nan Zhou accidentally entered Lu Zhou’s livestream and watched him rap and pose while Wen Yu’s clapper talk played.

Nan Zhou watched Huo Xingye film a bathhouse scene and agreed to visit him on set. When Nan Zhou arrived, he learned that Huo Xingye might be entering a rut, and Huo Xingye pulled him into a locked room.

• Nan Zhou entered Huo Xingye's livestream, liked an explicit comment about Huo Xingye's body, and hid the chat.
• Huo Xingye filmed a bathhouse scene, helped the male lead through a difficult take, and smiled at the camera after learning Nan Zhou had watched for over thirty minutes.
• Nan Zhou agreed to visit Huo Xingye on set and traveled there with his cameraman.
• A staff member told Nan Zhou that an omega extra had triggered their heat with an illicit substance, possibly affecting Huo Xingye and causing early signs of rut.
• Huo Xingye's assistant handed Nan Zhou an inhalant suppressant, and Huo Xingye pulled Nan Zhou into the lounge before the door shut.

During Huo Xingye’s rut, Nan Zhou entered the dressing room with him, where Huo Xingye kissed him and asked him to help apply a suppressant. They left together after thirty minutes and headed back to the apartment, where Pei Feng announced a group dinner.

• Huo Xingye pulled Nan Zhou into a dressing room and pinned him against the door, asking why he had come and telling him to take off his mask.
• Nan Zhou removed his mask, and Huo Xingye kissed him after Nan Zhou agreed that he could.
• Huo Xingye noted that Nan Zhou tasted like peach and said he preferred Sweet Chestnut, then handed Nan Zhou the suppressant and asked him to put it on.
• Huo Xingye and Nan Zhou emerged from the dressing room after thirty minutes, and the livestream viewers speculated about what had happened.
• The show rescheduled Huo Xingye’s scenes for the next day, so he and Nan Zhou returned to the apartment together.
• Pei Feng announced that Dream Apartment was organizing a group dinner that evening.

Nan Zhou reflected on Huo Xingye restraining himself during his rut, while learning how dangerous an Alpha's bite could be. At dinner, the show gave the couples framed memories and announced that Huo Xingye and Nan Zhou had won a magazine-cover opportunity, leaving Nan Zhou disappointed by the reward.

• Nan Zhou thought about Huo Xingye's restraint during his rut and the reasons he had refused to bite or mark him.
• Hao Jia told Nan Zhou that Alphas in rut had bitten Beta lovers and that some had fainted from the pain.
• Pei Feng presented framed photos of shared moments to Jiang Zhen and Xu Xiao, Zhang Shi and Gu Tang, and Lu Zhou and Wen Yu.
• Pei Feng announced that Huo Xingye and Nan Zhou had been voted the season's most popular couple and presented them with an empty frame.
• Pei Feng revealed that Huo Xingye and Nan Zhou's reward was a chance to shoot a C Family magazine cover, and Nan Zhou complained that it was underwhelming.

The couples on You Make My Heart Flutter learned that Lu Bei had volunteered to photograph Nan Zhou and sent him a message about his domestic skills and looking forward to seeing him tomorrow. The Couples Compatibility Challenge then began, leaving Nan Zhou and Huo Xingye with mismatched answers to their first question.

• Pei Feng announced that Lu Bei would photograph the couples, then relayed Lu Bei’s message to Nan Zhou about mastering housework, cooking, desserts, childcare, and illustration.
• Pei Feng introduced a compatibility game whose top couple would earn a privilege and whose bottom couple would face punishment; Nan Zhou asked to skip it, but Pei Feng said nonparticipants would automatically rank last.
• Gu Tang highlighted his confidence in the challenge and recalled that his erotic-outfit shoot had brought him attention, while resenting Nan Zhou and thinking about Zhang Shi’s comments.
• Lu Zhou and Wen Yu answered the first question incorrectly as a couple, though Nan Zhou supplied the correct answer; Gu Tang and Zhang Shi matched their answers and earned a point.
• Nan Zhou and Huo Xingye gave different answers about Huo Xingye’s age when he won his first Best Actor award, surprising Tang Tang and the viewers.

Huo Xingye and Nan Zhou revealed how closely they knew each other during a couples’ quiz, while their answers exposed more details about their private relationship. The chapter ended with them describing what it meant to like someone in strikingly similar terms.

• Huo Xingye and Nan Zhou correctly matched the scent of Huo Xingye’s pheromones to a forest campfire.
• Huo Xingye and Nan Zhou both identified strawberries as Nan Zhou’s most hated food, surprising Lu Zhou, who remembered Nan Zhou calling them his favorite.
• Wen Yu and Lu Zhou matched on the date they made their relationship public, while Xu Xiao revealed that Jiang Zhen had drunkenly kissed him and forgotten it.
• Huo Xingye and Nan Zhou both wrote December 11 as the date of their first kiss, prompting viewers to connect it to Huo Xingye’s birthday.
• Huo Xingye and Nan Zhou described liking someone as an uncontrollable, overwhelming desire to reach the person they cared about.

During the Couples Compatibility Challenge, Nan Zhou and Huo Xingye revealed matching answers and intimate pet names, including “hubby,” leaving the guests and livestream viewers buzzing. Their teasing ended with Huo Xingye telling Nan Zhou to speak to him in private, while Lu Zhou grew angry as he reconsidered Nan Zhou’s past feelings for him.

• Nan Zhou and Huo Xingye gave nearly identical answers about love, and Huo Xingye wondered whether Nan Zhou had once rushed toward Lu Zhou.
• Nan Zhou drew Lu Zhou as a rat caught by a giant rafflesia, while Lu Zhou drew a wolf protecting a rabbit.
• Jiang Zhen and Xu Xiao led the Couples Compatibility Challenge, with Huo Xingye and Nan Zhou tied for first place.
• Nan Zhou and Huo Xingye revealed their pet names for each other, including Huo Xingye’s claim that Nan Zhou called him “hubby.”
• Nan Zhou remembered using the name when he first met Huo Xingye and accused him of taking advantage of him; Huo Xingye told him to return the favor in private.
• Lu Zhou recalled the phone call about Nan Zhou and grew angry, believing Nan Zhou had already gotten together with Huo Xingye despite once saying he liked him.

Huo Xingye and Nan Zhou won the Couples Compatibility Challenge, then returned to Soul Bar for another performance. Later that night, Nan Zhou encountered Lu Zhou and interrupted Zhang Shi as he harassed Wen Yu, who knocked Zhang Shi down with a single punch.

• Huo Xingye and Nan Zhou took first place in the Couples Compatibility Challenge, and Pei Feng announced that two guest stars would arrive the next day.
• Nan Zhou and Huo Xingye performed at Soul Bar, where Yue Yang mentioned that he lived in their apartment building.
• After returning home, Nan Zhou went out alone, threw up, and told Lu Zhou that he was pregnant with Lu Zhou's father before rejecting his advances.
• Nan Zhou heard Zhang Shi threatening Wen Yu in an alley and kicked Zhang Shi as he moved to grab him.
• Wen Yu punched Zhang Shi, dislocating his jaw, and Nan Zhou gave Wen Yu a thumbs-up.

Wen Yu accidentally knocked Zhang Shi unconscious after Nan Zhou kicked him off balance, and the two tried to invent an explanation before the production crew arrived. The chapter revealed that Gu Tang told Huo Xingye that Nan Zhou was an Omega with an injured gland, and ended as Nan Zhou saw Huo Xingye and Gu Tang arrive at the alley.

• Nan Zhou kicked Zhang Shi from behind, causing Wen Yu to punch him in the jaw and knock him unconscious.
• Nan Zhou and Wen Yu tried to disguise Zhang Shi’s condition with a cucumber and an apple, then pretended to panic when the production crew approached.
• Gu Tang told Huo Xingye that Nan Zhou had been meeting Lu Zhou and claimed Nan Zhou was pregnant.
• Huo Xingye left the apartment to look for Nan Zhou, and Gu Tang followed him and revealed that Nan Zhou was an Omega whose gland had been injured in a car accident.
• Nan Zhou saw Huo Xingye and Gu Tang arrive with the production crew.

After Zhang Shi was knocked down in the alley, Huo Xingye took Nan Zhou back to the apartment and later watched security footage revealing Nan Zhou and Wen Yu’s role in the incident. The chapter ended with Huo Xingye finding Nan Zhou scratching mosquito bites on his back.

• Gu Tang reminded Huo Xingye that the Gu Family had proposed a marriage alliance three years earlier, while Huo Xingye realized Nan Zhou likely belonged to the family.
• Huo Xingye found Nan Zhou unharmed near Zhang Shi and Wen Yu, then led him away as the production staff called for an ambulance.
• Wen Yu mocked Gu Tang for mourning Zhang Shi prematurely, prompting Gu Tang to rush over and pretend to grieve.
• The day’s livestream topics dominated social media, with fans discussing Huo Xingye and Nan Zhou alongside other trending pairs.
• Huo Xingye received alley security footage showing Nan Zhou kicking Zhang Shi, Wen Yu punching him, and the two swapping a cucumber for an apple.
• Huo Xingye returned inside and found Nan Zhou exposing his back to complain about itchy mosquito bites.

Huo Xingye took Nan Zhou to the hospital after his rash and other allergic symptoms rapidly worsened. A doctor examined Nan Zhou and suspected his damaged gland had made the reaction more severe.

• Huo Xingye noticed the rash spreading across Nan Zhou’s back and neck, stopped him from scratching, and persuaded him to go to the hospital.
• The production crew arranged a car and resumed the livestream as Huo Xingye took Nan Zhou to the hospital; the viewers argued over his condition.
• Nan Zhou’s rash spread to his face during the drive, and Huo Xingye held him and asked the crew to investigate whether dinner had contained strawberries.
• At the hospital, Huo Xingye blocked the camera from filming Nan Zhou and took him to an emergency consultation.
• A doctor asked for Nan Zhou’s medical records and suspected his damaged gland was responsible for the severity of the allergic reaction.

Huo Xingye stayed with Nan Zhou through a severe allergic reaction and learned that his damaged gland lacked the pheromone protection needed to keep him healthy. A permanent mark from a high-ranking Alpha might protect the gland, leaving Huo Xingye to recall that Nan Zhou had seemed unusually well after their previous marking.

• Huo Xingye called Hao Jia for Nan Zhou’s medical records, and Hao Jia sent them after learning Nan Zhou was having a severe allergic reaction.
• The doctor examined Nan Zhou and gave him an injection in his gland while Huo Xingye held and comforted him.
• Nan Zhou fell asleep in Huo Xingye’s arms after trembling through the injection.
• The doctor explained that Nan Zhou’s damaged gland could not secrete pheromones and was vulnerable to illness, though skilled treatment had preserved it.
• The doctor said a permanent mark from a high-ranking Alpha could protect Nan Zhou’s gland and improve his condition.
• Huo Xingye remembered that Nan Zhou had not fallen ill after Huo Xingye marked him during their previous time together.

After Nan Zhou’s allergic reaction stabilized, Huo Xingye carried him home and stayed beside him as he slept. Nan Zhou reconsidered whether to trust Huo Xingye and accept a new relationship, then woke the next morning and joked about feeling exhausted.

• The doctor told Huo Xingye that an Alpha partner could help Nan Zhou’s body and suggested a permanent mark, but Huo Xingye stayed silent because Nan Zhou resisted marking.
• After Nan Zhou received allergy treatment, Huo Xingye carried him to the car, where Nan Zhou slept in his arms and murmured while touching Huo Xingye’s chest; Huo Xingye kissed his hand.
• Before dawn, Nan Zhou woke briefly and reflected on Huo Xingye’s steady affection and on the first love he had let go after waiting in vain for a meeting.
• Nan Zhou wondered whether he should risk accepting a new relationship with Huo Xingye, then fell asleep again.
• Nan Zhou woke at ten in the morning, and Huo Xingye asked how he felt; Nan Zhou joked that he felt as if he had built the pyramids and asked Huo Xingye to check for a slave brand on his back.

Nan Zhou recovered from his allergic reaction and shared a tender moment with Huo Xingye before they resumed the livestream. After Nan Zhou mocked Gu Tang over Zhang Shi, a well-dressed stranger stepped in to defend him.

• Huo Xingye checked Nan Zhou for a rash, then kissed his forehead when Nan Zhou asked for a kiss.
• Nan Zhou ate breakfast and restarted the livestream, where fans celebrated an edited Xingzhou CP video of him and Huo Xingye.
• Nan Zhou told Hao Jia he had shared his damaged gland condition with Huo Xingye because Huo Xingye was his partner.
• Nan Zhou and Huo Xingye ran into Gu Tang, who demanded to know what Nan Zhou had done to Zhang Shi.
• Wen Yu said Nan Zhou had knelt beside Zhang Shi and wailed, and Nan Zhou praised his own greatness.
• A man in a black suit and rimless glasses appeared and said Nan Zhou's greatness was not for Gu Tang to judge.

Gu Zheng arrived during the livestream, unsettling Gu Tang before declaring that Zhang Shi had no right to expect Gu Tang to bring him food. Huo Xingye and Nan Zhou left for their shoot, leaving Gu Tang alone with Gu Zheng and wondering why his powerful cousin had joined the show.

• Gu Tang panicked when Gu Zheng arrived, but Gu Zheng said he had watched the livestream and praised Gu Tang.
• Gu Zheng introduced himself to the guests and exchanged a cold look with Huo Xingye, while Nan Zhou joked about Gu Tang's cousin being there.
• Wen Yu reminded Gu Tang that Zhang Shi was waiting at the hospital, but Gu Zheng challenged the idea that Gu Tang should deliver his food.
• Huo Xingye and Nan Zhou left for their shoot, laughing together, and Lu Zhou and Wen Yu also departed.
• Gu Tang remained with Gu Zheng and wondered why his cousin had joined the variety show.

Gu Zheng took Gu Tang to the same shoot location as Huo Xingye and Nan Zhou, while Zhang Shi waited in the hospital and grew convinced that Nan Zhou had attacked him. At the shoot, Lu Bei brought Nan Zhou an elaborate shaved-ice gift, then reacted sourly when he noticed Huo Xingye beside him.

• Gu Zheng learned that Gu Tang's shoot was at the same location as Huo Xingye and Nan Zhou's and took Gu Tang there.
• Zhang Shi waited for Gu Tang's lunch, received no reply, and blamed Nan Zhou for dislocating his jaw after learning that the alley cameras had failed.
• Le Manman visited Zhang Shi, took photos with him, left him a fruit basket, and then went to the café where Jiang Zhen worked.
• Lu Bei arrived at the shoot with shaved ice topped by an ice sculpture resembling Nan Zhou and called himself Nan Zhou's devoted knight.
• Nan Zhou asked Huo Xingye whether he could eat the shaved ice, and Lu Bei scowled when he noticed Huo Xingye.