Chapter Summaries

Gu Ziran began his voice-acting job, and his coworkers welcomed him as Lu Qi took a sudden interest in coming to the office every day. He settled into dubbing crossover videos and enjoyed having steady work.

• Qin Qin took Gu Ziran out for cakes, and Gu Ziran told people he had found a job.
• Baozhu registered a Weibo account for Gu Ziran and taught him how to use it.
• Gu Ziran arrived at work in a suit, greeted his coworkers, and received lines to practice from an editor.
• Lu Qi asked Gu Ziran whether he was settling in, and Gu Ziran said he wanted more work; Lu Qi promised he could record soon.
• Lu Qi began coming to the office every day, and Gu Ziran started dubbing crossover videos with help from a voice director.

Lu Qi tried to get closer to Gu Ziran at work, mistaking his quietness for dislike before discovering he was nervous about asking his boss for help. After helping Gu Ziran with unfamiliar characters, Lu Qi added him on WeChat and invited him to call him anything.

• Lu Qi called Gu Ziran into his office, where Gu Ziran gave brief answers and said he liked everyone at the company.
• Lu Qi learned that Gu Ziran's family drove him to work and arranged for Xiaobing to bring cakes from Gu Ziran's favorite dessert shop.
• Lu Qi replaced the voice director in the studio, and Gu Ziran froze until he nervously asked Lu Qi to add pinyin to unfamiliar characters in his script.
• Lu Qi wrote the pinyin and read the characters aloud, then handed Gu Ziran water after he finished recording.
• Lu Qi added Gu Ziran on WeChat and learned that his nickname was Xiaoyuanzi and that Sanbao meant he was the third child in his family.
• Lu Qi told Gu Ziran that he disliked people calling him Qi Lu but would be fine with whatever Gu Ziran called him.

Lu Qi’s mother realized he had a crush on Gu Ziran and offered to teach him how to pursue him. Meanwhile, Gu Ziran left his basketball with a new neighbor, and Baozhu angrily took him to retrieve it.

• Xiao Liu brought Gu Ziran a strawberry cake, while Lu Qi watched them leave and encouraged himself over his growing connection with Gu Ziran.
• Lu Qi’s mother figured out that he liked an employee at his company, and Lu Qi admitted he wanted to pursue him.
• Gu Ziran played basketball with a masked young man who explained the rules, then left when Baozhu called him home, forgetting his ball.
• The young man took the basketball home so Gu Ziran could collect it later.
• After learning Gu Ziran had left the ball with a stranger who would not let him take it back, Baozhu grabbed Nezha’s Fire-Tipped Spear and marched with him toward the court.

Yin Baozhu and Gu Ziran went to retrieve their basketball from Song Yu, whom Baozhu recognized as her idol, and cleared up the misunderstanding. Later, Lu Qi continued courting Gu Ziran with treats and a Tom and Jerry model set, which he accepted as a company reward.

• Yin Baozhu urged Gu Ziran to act fierce before they went to find the boy who had taken their basketball.
• At the gate, Yin Baozhu recognized Song Yu and tried to explain the misunderstanding while Gu Ziran demanded the ball back.
• Song Yu returned the basketball, and Gu Ziran recognized him as the actor who had played the big spider.
• Lu Qi increasingly spoiled Gu Ziran at work with snacks, drinks, help, and offers to drive him home.
• Lu Qi gave Gu Ziran a limited-edition motorized Tom and Jerry set, and Gu Ziran accepted it after Lu Qi called it a company reward.

Gu Ziran believed Yin Baozhu’s warning that Lu Qi was trying to exploit him sexually and agreed to go out with his boss, while Lu Qi happily prepared for their date. When Gu Ziran told the Yin family about the outing, his relatives sounded a level-one red alert.

• Yin Baozhu warned Gu Ziran that Lu Qi’s gifts and kindness might be an attempt to exploit him sexually.
• Gu Ziran refused Lu Qi’s desserts, then asked whether Lu Qi planned to promote him and give him good audio drama opportunities; Lu Qi invited him out, and Gu Ziran agreed to visit an amusement park and go boating.
• Yin Zhengchuan and Wei Zisu returned home, and Yin Zhengchuan teased Wei Zisu about wearing a sweater he had knitted.
• At dinner, Gu Ziran said Lu Qi was taking only him out and described it as sexual exploitation, prompting the Yin family to sound a level-one red alert.
• Lu Qi ironed and selected his clothes, rehearsed greeting Gu Ziran, and went to bed excited for the next day.

Lu Qi arrived at Gu Ziran’s home hoping to take him on a date, but Ziran’s family mistook his intentions for workplace coercion and interrogated him. The misunderstanding began to unravel when Ziran revealed Baozhu had taught him that “sexual favors” meant going out to have fun.

• Lu Qi dressed up, brought pink roses, and went to Gu Ziran’s home for their outing.
• Lu Qi found Wei Zisu and the Yin family waiting at the gate, and learned that Ziran was Wei Zisu’s long-lost younger brother.
• The Yin family questioned Lu Qi about whether he was using his position to pressure Ziran, while Wei Zisu threatened him with a dagger.
• Lu Qi broke down crying and insisted that he liked Ziran but had never demanded sexual favors from him.
• Gu Ziran arrived and asked whether he and Lu Qi could go do sexual favors, then explained that Baozhu had told him the phrase meant going out to have fun.

After clearing up the misunderstanding with the Yin family, Lu Qi asked for a chance to pursue Gu Ziran, and the family let them go to the amusement park together. Wei Zisu and Yin Zhengchuan secretly followed them, turning Lu Qi’s date into a series of frightful encounters.

• Lu Qi declared that his feelings for Gu Ziran were genuine and asked Wei Zisu to let him prove himself, while Wei Zisu warned him that Gu Ziran did not yet understand romantic love.
• Gu Ziran eagerly said he liked Lu Qi, and the family agreed to let them go out together.
• Lu Qi took Gu Ziran to an amusement park, where they rode the Ferris wheel and took a photo together.
• Lu Qi spotted Wei Zisu and Yin Zhengchuan staring at them from a nearby Ferris wheel cabin, then later found Wei Zisu looming behind a snack shelf.
• Lu Qi waited in the foam pit while Gu Ziran bounced on the trampoline, then saw Yin Zhengchuan’s face emerge from the foam blocks and stare at him.

Gu Ziran spent a happy day with Lu Qi, while Lu Qi’s mother discovered their relationship and urged his family to make a proper visit to the Yin family. After Gu Ziran’s family discussed his feelings for Lu Qi, Lu Qi arrived with his parents and gifts, and both families tacitly approved of the two dating.

• Gu Ziran took Lu Qi to his favorite dessert shop, where the owner turned out to be Lu Qi’s mother and confronted him about his intentions toward Ziran.
• Lu Qi explained how he had met Gu Ziran’s family, and his mother called Lu Qi’s father to hurry home and help formally ask for Ziran’s hand.
• Gu Ziran told Wei Zisu and Yin Zhengchuan that he wanted to spend time with Lu Qi every day, but not with Fang Mian, and hesitated when asked how he would feel if Lu Qi married.
• Lu Qi returned the next day with his parents and lavish gifts, and they apologized to the Yin family for his rushed first visit.
• The Yin family recognized Lu Qi’s family’s sincerity, and both families tacitly approved of Lu Qi and Gu Ziran dating.

Gu Ziran agreed to date Lu Qi, and his family and Lu Qi celebrated his birthday with gifts and a spectacular drone show. When Lu Qi kissed him, Gu Ziran was overwhelmed by painful memories, shoved him away, and fled.

• Gu Ziran learned that his coworkers thought he and Lu Qi were dating, and Lu Qi asked him to become his boyfriend; Gu Ziran agreed after learning what dating meant.
• Yin Zhengchuan, Wei Zisu, and Yin Baozhu discussed birthday gifts for Gu Ziran, then saw Baozhu secretly give a gift box to a boy.
• Gu Ziran received many presents at home, then spent the day climbing a mountain, riding a cable car, and horseback riding with Lu Qi.
• Lu Qi took Gu Ziran to a restaurant and surprised him with a drone display spelling out a birthday message and forming pictures in the sky.
• Lu Qi kissed Gu Ziran, who panicked, shoved him away, and ran out of the room.

After Gu Ziran rejected Lu Qi’s advances and wanted to end their relationship, Lu Qi learned about the trauma Sun Zhe had inflicted on him and vowed to treat him well. Gu Ziran came out to find Lu Qi waiting, and Lu Qi begged him not to shut him out.

• Gu Ziran pulled away from Lu Qi’s kiss, said he did not want to date anymore, and asked to go home.
• Lu Qi brought Gu Ziran home, where he locked himself in his room and refused to come out.
• Lu Qi told Wei Zisu and Yin Zhengchuan what had happened, and Wei Zisu explained how Sun Zhe had deceived and harmed Gu Ziran.
• Lu Qi promised he would never blame Gu Ziran for being marked and offered to marry into his family if that would reassure them.
• Yin Zhengchuan told Gu Ziran that Lu Qi was waiting outside in the rain, prompting Gu Ziran to rush out and discover it was not raining.
• Lu Qi took Gu Ziran’s hands and promised not to do anything he disliked, begging him not to shut him out.

After Lu Qi begged him to stay together, Gu Ziran accepted his sincerity and kissed him before his birthday ended. They continued dating, and the chapter left them closer than before, with Gu Ziran calling Lu Qi his spouse.

• Gu Ziran told Lu Qi he felt unworthy after being marked and sleeping with another alpha, but Lu Qi reassured him and promised to cherish him.
• Gu Ziran learned Lu Qi had always restrained his pheromones around him and, before midnight passed, made a birthday wish and kissed Lu Qi.
• Gu Ziran and Lu Qi continued dating, and Lu Qi took him to work the next day despite wanting him to rest.
• At work, Lu Qi personally directed Gu Ziran's voice recording, and Gu Ziran asked what his pheromones smelled like.
• Lu Qi warned Gu Ziran not to casually ask outsiders to release pheromones, and Gu Ziran replied that Lu Qi was his spouse.

Gu Ziran and Lu Qi grew closer, and Gu Ziran remembered that Lu Qi had been the cosplayer who stood beside him at a convention years earlier. In a bonus scene, Lu Qi rescued Gu Ziran from thugs and proved to Yin Zhengchuan that he would protect him, though the thugs were later beaten by unknown assailants.

• Lu Qi told Gu Ziran that his chocolate-scented pheromones were something he liked because Gu Ziran loved them, and the two shared a tender kiss.
• Lu Qi accepted that Gu Ziran planned to attend a convention with Baozhu, then gave him a strawberry cake made by his mother.
• At the convention, Gu Ziran recognized Lu Qi in a red costume and remembered that Lu Qi had been the cosplayer beside him in the past.
• During the Lantern Festival, thugs cornered Gu Ziran in an alley, but Lu Qi found him and beat them while crying.
• Lu Qi told Yin Zhengchuan that he had feared losing Gu Ziran, and the police reprimanded him for excessive force after he paid the injured thugs' medical expenses.
• After the thugs were released, two unknown people attacked them at night and left no clues.

After a week apart, Wei Zisu and Yin Zhengchuan reunited and joined the demanding couples’ reality show Couple United in Heart. The show began with Zhu Zhu and Shen Huaiqing stranded without phones or money, racing to reach the same destination as the other couples.

• Yin Zhengchuan persuaded Wei Zisu to keep making love after their reunion, leaving Wei unable to get out of bed the next morning.
• Wei Zisu took Yin Zhengchuan to film Couple United in Heart, whose director Liu Fan had made the show more challenging than Still in Love.
• Wei Zisu learned that Xu Meng and Ma Qiancheng planned to go public on the show after paparazzi caught them together and demanded money.
• Zhu Zhu and Shen Huaiqing arrived at an arts park, while Wei Zisu and Yin Zhengchuan were sent to a foot massage palace.
• The production team confiscated Zhu Zhu and Shen Huaiqing’s phones and wallets, then tasked them with reaching Broken Bridge Garden before three in the afternoon.
• Shen Huaiqing’s fans worried that the couple could not travel more than ten kilometers in time without money or phones.

Zhu Zhu and Shen Huaiqing borrowed an eccentric piano car to reach Broken Bridge Garden, while Xu Meng and Ma Qiancheng got there by bicycle after Xu Meng let a fan touch Ma Qiancheng’s abs. Their livestream ended after Xu Meng made a sexually explicit remark.

• Zhu Zhu and Shen Huaiqing learned the art park’s bicycle was broken and borrowed a piano car that ran when its keys were played.
• Shen Huaiqing drove the piano car toward Broken Bridge Garden while playing music and eating barbecue, as Zhu Zhu hid in embarrassment.
• Xu Meng and Ma Qiancheng met a fan who recognized him, and Xu Meng encouraged her to touch his abs and pecs.
• Xu Meng asked the fan to lend them her bicycle, and Ma Qiancheng rode her with Xu Meng to Broken Bridge Garden.
• Ma Qiancheng complained that Xu Meng had shared him with a fan, and the livestream was shut down after Xu Meng’s explicit reply.

Wei Zisu and Yin Zhengchuan got a ride to Broken Bridge Garden from Sun Liang, who used the livestream to explain his divorce from Yuan Zizhen and then made an unwanted advance toward Wei Zisu. Yin Zhengchuan answered by bragging about his loving family and left with Wei Zisu, leaving Sun Liang furious.

• Wei Zisu and Yin Zhengchuan ran into Sun Liang outside a foot massage parlor, and he offered to drive them to Broken Bridge Garden.
• Sun Liang told them that he and Yuan Zizhen had divorced, blaming Yuan Zizhen for financial misconduct, losing their baby, and fighting with Sun Liang's mother.
• Wei Zisu tried to comfort Sun Liang, who asked whether Wei Zisu still liked him and suggested they might be together if Wei Zisu and Yin Zhengchuan divorced.
• Yin Zhengchuan took Wei Zisu's hand and taunted Sun Liang by describing his warm, loving family before leaving with Wei Zisu.
• Sun Liang watched them go with a furious expression.

All three couples arrived at Broken Bridge Garden on time, then played a guessing game in the Couple United in Heart livestream studio. Wei Zisu and Yin Zhengchuan took the lead, while Shen Huaiqing’s bizarre clues left Zhu Zhu exasperated as the game continued.

• Yin Zhengchuan and Wei Zisu reached Broken Bridge Garden first, followed by Xu Meng and barefoot Ma Qiancheng, who had given Xu Meng his flats.
• Teacher Shen and Teacher Zhu arrived just before the deadline in a piano car, with lamb skewers flying and a traffic officer in pursuit; all three couples avoided punishment.
• Liu Fan introduced the You Act, I Guess warm-up game, and Zhu Zhu reminded Ma Qiancheng, Wei Zisu, and Shen Huaiqing to follow her advice about their public images.
• Ma Qiancheng and Xu Meng scored two points by guessing clues that both involved Xu Meng’s former fiancé, Sun Zhe.
• Wei Zisu and Yin Zhengchuan scored three points as Wei Zisu acted out clues including Ape-Man Tarzan, the Shandong License Plate Song, and acting cute.
• Shen Huaiqing and Zhu Zhu scored two points after Shen Huaiqing gave eccentric clues for prince and road sign.

Zhu Zhu and Shen Huaiqing won the right to choose the next game, then joined the other couples in Love’s Rush. The wives retrieved their heart halves with Wei Zisu’s quick thinking, while the husbands prepared to climb the hill past patrolling staff in Ghillie Suits.

• Zhu Zhu and Shen Huaiqing answered two questions correctly, took the lead, and chose Love’s Rush as the next game.
• Liu Fan explained that the wives had to retrieve half hearts from ice blocks while their husbands climbed the hill to join them, with the last couple responsible for dinner.
• Zhu Zhu, Xu Meng, and Wei Zisu drew an ear pick, hand warmers, and a fork, but Wei Zisu shattered his ice block against a rock and freed all three boxes.
• Liu Fan told Shen Huaiqing, Ma Qiancheng, and Yin Zhengchuan that patrols could send them back to the starting point if they were caught.
• The husbands received Ghillie Suits as camouflage, and Ma Qiancheng and Yin Zhengchuan mocked the supposed help.

Yin Zhengchuan won the slope challenge with his speed, leaving Shen Huaiqing and Ma Qiancheng to finish behind him and cook dinner. As the couples gathered in the villa kitchen, Xu Meng’s suggestive answer to Yin Zhengchuan’s question got the livestream shut down.

• Shen Huaiqing panicked when Yin Zhengchuan showed him a little green snake, exposing their hiding spots and getting both men captured along with Ma Qiancheng.
• Yin Zhengchuan stripped off his ghillie suit, dodged the men in black, and raced to the top of the slope to complete a heart with Wei Zisu.
• Shen Huaiqing reached the top second and Ma Qiancheng arrived last, so Ma Qiancheng and Xu Meng had to make dinner for the guests.
• Xu Meng helped Ma Qiancheng in the kitchen by praising him, while Yin Zhengchuan, Wei Zisu, Shen Huaiqing, and Zhu Zhu came down to help.
• Xu Meng said that the distance that made her and Ma Qiancheng’s hearts grow fonder was negative twenty, and Liu Fan’s livestream was shut down for prohibited content.

Liu Fan devised troublesome tasks to keep the guests occupied, and the three couples drew their assignments before splitting up for the livestream. Wei Zisu and Yin Zhengchuan followed two student interns to a station, where the interns suddenly crawled and barked like dogs, dragging them along.

• After the livestream shut down early, Liu Fan decided to keep the guests too busy to think about anything else.
• The next morning, Wei Zisu, Xu Meng, and Zhu Zhu drew vague task cards, and the three couples set off on separate assignments.
• Wei Zisu and Yin Zhengchuan met the interns Xiao Kuai and Xiao Shang, who told them their first check-in location was the station.
• Wei Zisu and Yin Zhengchuan tied two-meter cords to the interns so they could stay within the required distance.
• At the station, Xiao Kuai and Xiao Shang dropped to their knees and crawled inside barking like dogs, pulling Wei Zisu and Yin Zhengchuan along.

Wei Zisu and Yin Zhengchuan endured Xiao Shang and Xiao Kuai’s deliberately embarrassing antics at two variety-show check-in stops. At the mall, Yin Zhengchuan turned the crowd against the pair by pretending they were dangerous patients, clearing the area around them.

• Xiao Shang and Xiao Kuai danced in schoolgirl miniskirts at the first check-in while Wei Zisu and Yin Zhengchuan were tethered nearby.
• Xiao Shang and Xiao Kuai admitted they had volunteered to make the task difficult for a hundred-yuan bonus each, and the group headed to the mall.
• Wei Zisu and Yin Zhengchuan removed their ropes but stayed within two meters of Xiao Shang and Xiao Kuai.
• Xiao Shang and Xiao Kuai staged a loud breakup scene in the mall, drawing a crowd and embarrassing Wei Zisu.
• Yin Zhengchuan pretended to call Doctor Liu about the two patients, and the bystanders fled after hearing the pair might slash people.