Chapter Summaries

Zhu Zhu and Shen Huaiqing disguised themselves as middle-aged singles and were sent to a senior matchmaking event, where they had to complete separate rose-related tasks. Zhu Zhu confronted and rejected Yao Daqiang after he demanded a wife who would serve him and his family for free.

• Zhu Zhu and Shen Huaiqing appeared in aged disguises and learned they had to attend a matchmaking event as singles.
• The staff explained that Zhu Zhu needed to receive three roses while Shen Huaiqing had to give three roses without being rejected.
• At the event, Yao Daqiang offered Zhu Zhu a rose and described his expectations for a wife, including housework and childcare without extra pay.
• Zhu Zhu called out Yao Daqiang for seeking a free housekeeper and rejected his claim that marrying a professor would be an honor.
• As the first round ended, Zhu Zhu threw Yao Daqiang’s rose at him and told him to take it and leave.

During the second and third rounds of speed dating, Zhu Zhu rejected an unfaithful contractor and connected with Zhao Zijun, while Shen Huaiqing made clear he wanted a woman and later described himself as a masochist seeking a sadist. The chapter ended with Zhao Zijun asking Zhu Zhu to give her a chance.

• Shen Huaiqing told a male omega that his partner had to be female, and the two waited out their three-minute date.
• Wang Chang offered Zhu Zhu his rose and explained that he wanted a partner to manage his household, but he admitted his ex-wife had crushed one of his testicles after he cheated.
• Zhu Zhu rejected Wang Chang and returned his rose, saying she wanted no part of his unfaithful household.
• Shen Huaiqing told Xiaoxue that he worked in the arts and was a masochist looking for a sadist, leaving her stunned.
• Zhao Zijun gave Zhu Zhu all three of her roses, praised her character, and asked her to give their potential relationship a chance.

Zhu Zhu rejected Zhao Zijun’s roses after revealing she was filming a show, then reunited with Shen Huaiqing by accepting his three roses and kissing him. Meanwhile, Wei Zisu and Yin Zhengchuan took Xiao Kuai and Xiao Shang to Yin Zhengchuan’s restaurant for a meal, leaving the students stunned when they learned he owned it.

• Zhu Zhu told Zhao Zijun she was married and filming a show, then helped Zhao Zijun share her Weibo ID with the livestream viewers.
• Shen Huaiqing ignored the seating order, proposed to Zhu Zhu with three roses, and she accepted them after they reaffirmed their marriage plans and kissed.
• Xiao Kuai and Xiao Shang brought Wei Zisu and Yin Zhengchuan to a five-star restaurant to eat free samples.
• Yin Zhengchuan ordered a full meal for everyone and revealed the restaurant belonged to him, surprising Xiao Kuai and Xiao Shang.

Ma Qiancheng and Xu Meng were chased by villagers after Ma punched an old man who propositioned him to sell Xu Meng, and the couple and crew hid in an abandoned courtyard. As they waited for police, they discovered a chained girl inside a locked room.

• Xu Meng and Ma Qiancheng entered a village dressed as beggars to ask for food.
• An old man offered Ma money to take Xu Meng, then propositioned her, so Ma punched him.
• The old man rallied villagers to attack them, and Ma, Xu Meng, and the crew fled while viewers called the police.
• The group hid in an abandoned courtyard as other show participants and crew headed to help them.
• After Xu Meng heard a noise behind a door, Ma looked inside and saw a girl chained by her legs and neck.

Ma Qiancheng found a young woman chained inside a house and learned that traffickers had held and abused her for years. After viewers mobilized to report the village, local police arrived and demanded that Ma Qiancheng turn off his livestream and hand over his camera.

• Ma Qiancheng discovered a bruised girl chained to a pillar and told Xu Meng and the crew to hide while he investigated.
• Ma Qiancheng picked the old lock, covered the girl with his coat, and promised that he had called the police.
• The girl said traffickers had sold her when she was fifteen, the villagers and a local policeman had prevented her escape, and she had been abused and forced to bear children.
• Viewers identified the village, reported it to city police, and some headed there to help.
• Local police arrived, and the crew members ran out to ask them for help before Ma Qiancheng could stop them.
• One officer ordered Ma Qiancheng to shut off the livestream and hand over his camera.

Ma Qiancheng, Xu Meng, and the other guests fought villagers and local police who tried to stop them from exposing a trafficking case, until reinforcements arrived and the city police took over. After the girl was rescued and the offenders were arrested or suspended pending investigation, Ma Qiancheng and Xu Meng left the show, and Xu Meng’s farewell livestream got shut down for violating content rules.

• Ma Qiancheng refused to hand over the livestream equipment and called out the local police for ignoring the trafficked girl, while viewers learned city police were on their way.
• A villager attacked Ma Qiancheng with a sickle, and Xu Meng joined the fight after he was injured; villagers seized and destroyed their cameras, ending the livestream.
• An elderly man and a group of young men charged in, beat the villagers and local police, and were joined by Yin Zhengchuan, Wei Zisu, Zhu Zhu, and Shen Huaiqing.
• Liu Fan and the city police arrived to find the villagers and local officers defeated, while the elderly man claimed responsibility for beating them in self-defense.
• Liu Fan told viewers that the girl had been rescued and was safe, and that Ma Qiancheng and Xu Meng would leave the show because of Ma Qiancheng’s injury.
• Xu Meng reassured viewers that Ma Qiancheng had only a flesh wound, then described her fight in graphic terms, prompting the livestream to be shut down for violating content rules.

Wei Zisu and Yin Zhengchuan discussed having a baby and agreed to consider it together. The next morning, Wu Hao and Cui Xiangxiang joined the show as newlyweds, and the guests began a drawing game that ended with Zhu Zhu seeing the first prompt, The Starry Night.

• Wei Zisu suggested that he and Yin Zhengchuan visit the Technological Gestation Company to have a baby, and Yin Zhengchuan worried that a child would make Wei Zisu love him less.
• Wei Zisu reassured Yin Zhengchuan that he would respect his choice, and Yin Zhengchuan agreed to the idea of having a baby.
• Liu Fan introduced Wu Hao and Cui Xiangxiang as newlyweds, surprising Wei Zisu, who learned of his friend's marriage on the livestream.
• Cui Xiangxiang told Wei Zisu that Wu Hao had taken him to register while he was drunk and threatened to jump when Cui Xiangxiang said it did not count.
• Liu Fan organized a cooperative drawing game in which the guests' scores determined their dinner, and Zhu Zhu saw the first prompt, The Starry Night.

Zhu Zhu drew a simple night scene to represent “The Starry Night,” but the drawing chain went badly off course as Shen Huaiqing, Wu Hao, Cui Xiangxiang, and Yin Zhengchuan each misinterpreted the picture. Wei Zisu recognized Yin Zhengchuan’s drawing as “The Starry Night,” earning the team a point and leaving the other guests astonished.

• Zhu Zhu drew a moon, stars, a house, and a lit window, while Shen Huaiqing mistook her scene for an idyllic haven and drew peach blossoms, mountains, and flowing water.
• Wu Hao interpreted Shen Huaiqing’s drawing as a sacred wish tree and added a praying person, but Cui Xiangxiang mistook it for a rice field and drew geese overhead.
• Yin Zhengchuan recognized Cui Xiangxiang’s drawing as a Van Gogh painting and drew Van Gogh with a field and rows of short strokes.
• Wei Zisu recognized the strokes in Yin Zhengchuan’s drawing and guessed “The Starry Night.”
• Liu Fan declared the answer correct and awarded one point, leaving the other guests bewildered.

The guests finished a drawing-and-guessing game, scoring another point when Wei Zisu guessed Hua Fei from a flower and fertilizer. Liu Fan then led them into a no-laughing challenge in Broken Bridge Garden, where Xiao Kuai’s trousers displayed Liu Fan’s animated face.

• Zhu Zhu drew Hua Fei, and Wu Hao’s drawing of a flower beside a human head confused Cui Xiangxiang and Yin Zhengchuan.
• Wei Zisu guessed Hua Fei from Yin Zhengchuan’s drawing, earning the group a point.
• The guests scored another point in the third round, and Cui Xiangxiang celebrated by hugging Wei Zisu and spinning around.
• Liu Fan explained that the guests had to follow a staff member to collect task cards without laughing, or they would be eliminated and lose their points.
• Xiao Kuai led the guests onward with Liu Fan’s face printed on his trousers, and the group struggled to keep from laughing.

Xiao Kuai led the group through a street where actors set up challenges designed to make them laugh. Wu Hao was eliminated after laughing at a noodle vendor’s gag, and Wei Zisu was confronted by an old woman who wanted to take him home to cook him as fish.

• Xiao Kuai led the six contestants past shops where actors tried to make them laugh.
• Wu Hao tasted the noodles, laughed when strands shot from his nostrils, and was eliminated.
• Wei Zisu and Yin Zhengchuan kept their eyes shut, while Shen Huaiqing used Zhu Zhu’s hand to slap himself to stop laughing.
• An old woman recognized Wei Zisu as the Mermaid and asked him to come home with her.
• The old woman revealed a packet of pickled mustard greens fish seasoning after saying she had already boiled the water.

Wei Zisu, Shen Huaiqing, and Zhu Zhu continued the variety-show challenge after Cui Xiangxiang and Yin Zhengchuan were eliminated by a bizarre grandmother and her bearded, school-uniformed grandson. Xiao Kuai led the remaining guests to a crying young man who Wei Zisu recognized as Xiao Shang, where their next task began.

• A bearded man in an elementary school uniform arrived and explained that his grandmother was confused after she tried to take Wei Zisu home.
• The grandmother made an exaggerated face, causing Cui Xiangxiang to laugh and get eliminated.
• The grandson saluted the group, revealing extremely long armpit hair, and Yin Zhengchuan laughed and was eliminated.
• Wei Zisu, Shen Huaiqing, and Zhu Zhu continued following Xiao Kuai.
• Xiao Kuai asked them to console a crying young man, whom Wei Zisu recognized as Xiao Shang.

Xiao Shang asked the mentors for support as he pursued dancing, then gave them an unexpectedly provocative pole-dancing performance. On their way onward, a boy’s firecracker mishap made Shen Huaiqing laugh so hard that Zhu Zhu called him out.

• Xiao Shang told Shen Huaiqing, Zhu Zhu, and Wei Zisu that his family opposed his dancing and asked to show them his skills.
• Xiao Shang changed into a green snakeskin outfit and pole-danced on a lamppost while the mentors watched in embarrassment.
• The mentors left Xiao Shang dancing to “Itch” and continued toward their destination.
• A boy’s firecracker exploded in a bucket and splattered him with a brown substance, prompting his mother to scold him about his grandpa’s chamber pot.
• Shen Huaiqing burst out laughing at the imagined scene, and Zhu Zhu snapped at him.

Zhu Zhu was the only guest to complete the final mission, earning the group enough points to order four large dishes. She then revealed the next day’s mission: the wives would swap husbands for a day, leaving Yin Zhengchuan distressed at the prospect of being separated from Wei Zisu.

• Xiao Kuai surprised Wei Zisu and Zhu Zhu with Liu Fan’s face on his butt, and Wei Zisu was eliminated after laughing.
• Zhu Zhu kicked Xiao Kuai to hide the face and became the only guest to receive the mission card.
• Liu Fan announced that the group had four points and could order four dishes, so the guests chose four large regional specialties.
• Zhu Zhu read the next mission card, which required the wives to draw lots and spend a day with another husband without meeting their own spouses.
• Yin Zhengchuan clung to Wei Zisu and argued that separation could disrupt his hormones while he was preparing to conceive.

The guests drew new partners for the husband-swapping task, and Wei Zisu was paired with Shen Huaiqing. When Shen Huaiqing strained his back while carrying water for the Scholarly Teahouse, Wei Zisu took over the work and helped him rest.

• Wei Zisu, Zhu Zhu, and Cui Xiangxiang drew their new partners: Shen Huaiqing, Wu Hao, and Yin Zhengchuan, respectively.
• Yin Zhengchuan and Wu Hao dramatically said goodbye to their original partners, while Zhu Zhu told Shen Huaiqing to get lost when he tried to join in.
• Wei Zisu and Shen Huaiqing received a task to carry spring water to the Scholarly Teahouse.
• Shen Huaiqing strained his back while lifting his buckets, so Wei Zisu helped him to the teahouse and carried the water alone.

Zhu Zhu and Wu Hao cleaned the villa and prepared dinner, while Cui Xiangxiang and Yin Zhengchuan took a group of kindergarten children on an educational tour. Wu Hao admitted he hid household items and sealed jars so Xiangxiang would have to rely on him, and Cui Xiangxiang kept the children safe through his teaching experience.

• Zhu Zhu went to buy ingredients while Wu Hao cleaned the villa, only to return and find that he had put away nearly everything.
• Wu Hao retrieved kitchen items from strange hiding places and explained that he had arranged things that way so Xiangxiang would need his help.
• Cui Xiangxiang and Yin Zhengchuan led eight kindergarten children around Broken Bridge Garden without their teacher.
• Cui Xiangxiang stopped one child from jumping into the lake and another from eating a caterpillar, impressing Yin Zhengchuan with his experience.

Yin Zhengchuan kept the eight children under control by putting them in a dog cage and pretending it was a fantastical ride. During an audience question segment, Shen Huaiqing and Wei Zisu described how they and their partners showed anger, and Wei began explaining how Yin Zhengchuan handled it.

• Yin Zhengchuan borrowed a large dog cage and coaxed the children inside by giving it an elaborate ride name.
• Yin Zhengchuan pushed the cage through Broken Bridge Garden while Cui Xiangxiang followed, worried about complaints from the parents.
• Wei Zisu and Shen Huaiqing selected a viewer question asking what a husband did when his wife made him angry.
• Shen Huaiqing said he unfollowed Teacher Zhu on Weibo when angry, which led to their families helping them reconcile after it became news.
• Wei Zisu said Yin Zhengchuan rarely got angry and was easy to coax, then began explaining that he usually only learned afterward how Yin had shown his displeasure.

The guests completed their variety-show tasks and shared playful stories and messages about their partners. After returning to the villa, Wu Hao reunited affectionately with Cui Xiangxiang, while Zhu Zhu tended to Shen Huaiqing’s back.

• Wei Zisu described how Yin Zhengchuan quietly skipped chores when sulking, then completed them and wrote an eight-hundred-word self-criticism.
• Zhu Zhu and Wu Hao made hot-and-sour shredded ginger and planned to tell the other guests it was shredded potato.
• Cui Xiangxiang said he appreciated how Wu Hao cared for him and told him he could not live without him.
• Yin Zhengchuan said he missed his partner and recited a Shandong-dialect rhyme praising his wife.
• Wu Hao greeted Cui Xiangxiang at the villa, hugged him, and was delighted when Cui Xiangxiang said he had missed him.
• Zhu Zhu rubbed Shen Huaiqing’s lower back and chided him for overdoing things and forgetting his calcium tablets.

Wei Zisu and Yin Zhengchuan reunited during dinner on the variety show, where the guests joked over a dish packed with ginger and acted out a viewer’s requested love triangle. The day’s livestream ended with the guests thanking viewers, while the show and their stories were set to continue.

• Yin Zhengchuan clung to Wei Zisu and complained about caring for children all day, and Wei Zisu comforted him by saying he would get practice for their own children.
• Zhu Zhu and Wu Hao served hot-and-sour shredded potatoes filled almost entirely with ginger, and the other guests pretended not to notice so they could avoid washing the dishes.
• Liu Fan selected a viewer’s request for Yin Zhengchuan and Wu Hao to fight over him, but the two kept pushing him toward each other instead.
• Zhu Zhu and Wei Zisu shared their thoughts about love, and Cui Xiangxiang and Wu Hao questioned whether Wei Zisu’s quote came from Empresses in the Palace.
• The guests raised their glasses to viewers, and the livestream ended with everyone looking toward the camera.

Qin Qin, a face-blind omega working in the big city, repeatedly crossed paths with a Shandong man while avoiding unwanted attention and danger. When Yin Changjun introduced himself, Qin Qin still did not recognize him, leaving their connection unresolved.

• Qin Qin accompanied his future cousin-in-law to a bridal shop, and her reckless driving caused them to crash into a gravel truck at the construction site.
• Qin Qin's future cousin-in-law claimed Qin Qin had wanted to see the handsome Brother Jun, and Brother Jun accepted their apology and offered to help with the car.
• A stranger dragged Qin Qin into a dark alley, but a construction worker with a Shandong accent kicked the attacker away and offered to walk Qin Qin home.
• Qin Qin invented a tragic story to deter a man who approached him in the park, then left without seeing the man's shy, doting smile.
• When Qin Qin overslept, a motorcyclist offered him a ride, revealed himself as Yin Changjun, and asked whether Qin Qin remembered him.

Qin Qin learned that Yin Changjun was the construction-site owner who had helped him and realized Yin had noticed him for a long time. After Qin Qin gave Yin a handmade brooch bearing his name, Yin invited him to eat, and Qin Qin said he might accept if the invitation was simply to get to know him.

• Qin Qin recognized Yin Changjun as the owner of the gravel truck and thanked him for giving him a ride to work.
• Yin Changjun admitted he had noticed Qin Qin passing the site each day, and Qin Qin asked him to wait at the entrance the next morning.
• Yin Changjun arrived in a new suit, but Qin Qin failed to recognize him until Yin introduced himself.
• Qin Qin gave Yin a handmade brooch with his name on it so he could recognize him, and Yin invited Qin Qin to a meal.
• Qin Qin initially declined the invitation as a thank-you, then said he might consider eating with Yin if Yin wanted to get to know him; Yin eagerly agreed.