Recaps

Xiao Yao welcomed Shen Yunzhi to Capital City, and they spent the New Year building a warm life together. On New Year's Day, Shen Yunzhi woke to find Xiao Yao already up.

• Xiao Yao met Shen Yunzhi at the airport and brought her home, where she reflected on how this place felt more like home than the world she had left behind.
• Xiao Yao and Shen Yunzhi spent the holiday shopping, eating pastries, and playing in the snow together.
• Xiao Yao mistakenly granted the household staff New Year's leave, so he hired a private chef team to prepare their New Year's Eve dinner.
• At midnight, Shen Yunzhi wished Xiao Yao a happy New Year and said she hoped their life together would stay this way; Xiao Yao agreed and promised, “Every year from now on.”
• On New Year's Day, Shen Yunzhi woke to firecrackers and found that Xiao Yao was already up.

Shen Yunzhi and Xiao Yao celebrated New Year's Day by visiting a temple, where she hung a wish plaque and gave him a red bracelet. Afterward, Shen Yunzhi stopped traveling, took a secretary job with Xiao Yao, and resigned a month later, accusing him of sexual harassment.

• Xiao Yao cooked Shen Yunzhi a disastrous New Year's breakfast, and she praised his effort despite the food.
• Shen Yunzhi and Xiao Yao visited a temple, where she hung a plaque wishing for peace, safety, joy, and happiness.
• Shen Yunzhi bought Xiao Yao a red bracelet, and he refused to take it off.
• After the variety show went on hiatus, Shen Yunzhi traveled until a flood buried the hotel where she had been staying; she returned home unexpectedly and frightened Xiao Yao.
• Shen Yunzhi accepted a secretary position from Xiao Yao, then resigned after a month, claiming he had sexually harassed her.

After realizing she was only two years older than a recent exam graduate, Shen Yunzhi decided to return to school, but struggled with freshman-level math and enrolled at Jing University. On registration day, Xiao Yao fussed over her and grew jealous when student volunteers offered to help her.

• Shen Yunzhi watched a post-exam interview, calculated her age, and decided to go back to school.
• Xiao Yao brought Shen Yunzhi freshman advanced mathematics exam papers, and she discovered she had forgotten much of the material.
• Shen Yunzhi began studying from freshman year and arrived at Jing University in late August to register.
• Xiao Yao warned Shen Yunzhi to keep in touch, avoid the cafeteria, and stay away from men who offered favors.
• Several student volunteers approached Shen Yunzhi to offer help, and Xiao Yao sourly told them someone was already showing her around.

Shen Yunzhi returned to Jing University, where candid photos of her with Xiao Yao exposed her enrollment and stirred up online gossip. After enduring two weeks of military training and teasing Jiang Chi, she finished training without getting a tan.

• Xiao Yao pulled Shen Yunzhi away from upperclassmen who offered to help her register, then handled her forms and bought her milk tea.
• A journalism student filmed Shen Yunzhi during registration, and photos of her with Xiao Yao spread from Jing University's campus crush page to Weibo, revealing her return to school.
• Shen Yunzhi endured two weeks of military training while Jiang Chi taunted her with watermelon and jokes, then hit him when the instructor dismissed the formation.
• Jiang Chi told Shen Yunzhi that Jiang Yunli's divorce from Ji Nanxian remained unresolved because Zheng Xiulan and Ji Nanxian were imprisoned abroad for financial fraud.
• After autumn rain ended military training, An Zhizhi visited to mock Shen Yunzhi for getting sunburned but found she had not tanned at all.

Shen Yunzhi spent a playful weekend with Xiao Yao, then unexpectedly found him beside her in class after he returned from a long business trip. The chapter left her passing him a note asking how he had gotten in and why he was dressed that way.

• Shen Yunzhi drew a flower and a turtle on sleeping Xiao Yao’s cheeks and photographed him.
• Xiao Yao woke, caught Shen Yunzhi, and teased her before kissing her and promising she would never escape him.
• Shen Yunzhi dozed during her first macroeconomics lecture, and the strict teacher called on her to answer a question.
• Xiao Yao, seated beside Shen Yunzhi, showed her the answer in the textbook, and she read it aloud to the teacher.
• Shen Yunzhi learned Xiao Yao had flown more than twenty hours to see her after four days apart and passed him a note asking how he had gotten into class and why he was dressed that way.

After Xiao Yao returned early, he confronted Shen Yunzhi about her sleep and meals and laid down rules for her routine. The two playfully discussed their relationship and marriage, ending with Shen Yunzhi promising she would stay with him.

• Xiao Yao questioned Shen Yunzhi about her late bedtime and skipped breakfast, then told her to sleep before eleven, send him breakfast photos, and come home on weekends.
• Shen Yunzhi teased Xiao Yao by asking whether he was her dad, and the two chased each other until they fell together on the grass.
• Shen Yunzhi admitted she had not planned to date Xiao Yao but had given him a chance because he was a good person.
• Xiao Yao jokingly suggested a wedding and marriage certificate, and Shen Yunzhi revealed her household register listed her as eighteen because her adoptive parents had recorded her birth year incorrectly.
• Shen Yunzhi told Xiao Yao she would not run away and laced her fingers with his.

Shen Youzhi took over the missions meant for Shen Yunzhi and traveled to City A to investigate the zombie outbreak. There she met Lu Zong’s group, fought Lu Zong, and joined them as their feared combat powerhouse, while Lu Zong grew curious about her unreadable thoughts.

• Shen Youzhi asked the system to let her complete Shen Yunzhi’s missions, then began watching Shen Yunzhi’s livestreams while hunting zombies and adopted her crude jokes and habits.
• Shen Youzhi set out for City A to discover how the zombie apocalypse began, suspecting it was the first place the virus had spread.
• Shen Youzhi slept in a house after removing its zombie family, but Lu Zong’s group arrived and mistook her for a zombie.
• Lu Zong tried to choke Shen Youzhi, realized she was alive, and loosened his grip; Shen Youzhi woke and punched him in the eye.
• Shen Youzhi fought Lu Zong until he conceded and begged her to join his group, whose goals matched her mission.
• Lu Zong discovered that his mind-reading ability could not read Shen Youzhi, leaving him curious about her.

Shen Youzhi’s dangerous missions and indifference to her own survival alarmed Lu Zong, who learned that she felt rootless and lived mainly to support Shen Yunzhi through the system. After Shen Youzhi secretly investigated a dangerous logistics hub and found lifesaving supplies, Lu Zong angrily confronted her for risking her life, but she insisted she had done it to protect the people she considered family.

• Lu Zong told Shen Youzhi that she seemed lonely, prompting her to reflect on being abandoned by her original family and having no sense of belonging in either world.
• The system encouraged Shen Youzhi to keep completing missions so she could support Shen Yunzhi and later attend Shen Yunzhi and Xiao Yao’s wedding.
• As the base grew, Lu Zong became its leader and Shen Youzhi used her strength to defend him and help the group secure supplies.
• After learning a logistics hub might hold vital food and medicine, Lu Zong ordered Shen Youzhi’s team to abandon its investigation because the site was more dangerous than expected.
• Shen Youzhi entered the warehouse complex alone, found vast supplies, and returned to the base with the news.
• Lu Zong reprimanded Shen Youzhi and her team for letting her go alone, but Shen Youzhi said she had risked herself because she wanted to protect her family.

Shen Youzhi and Lu Zong’s argument fueled rumors that she would leave the Southern Base, while their strained relationship led Shen to keep taking missions and avoiding him. After Lu rescued her from a zombie horde, they remained at odds, and Shen learned the base believed she planned to go solo and destroy it.

• Shen Youzhi’s teammates defended her after Lu Zong scolded her, and their argument sparked rumors that she would leave the Southern Base and lead her own operation.
• Shen Youzhi kept accepting missions and avoiding Lu Zong for over two months, leaving him unable to speak with her.
• When Shen accepted a mission near a chemical plant threatened by a zombie horde, Lu canceled a conference and led a rescue team to find her.
• Lu rescued Shen from the zombies, but their attempted conversation ended in silence, and they returned to the base separately with their teammates.
• Rumors escalated until Shen heard that she planned to leave the Southern Base and destroy it, and she was baffled to learn she was supposedly going solo.

Shen Youzhi confronted Lu Zong after he believed a rumor that she planned to leave the base, and the two argued over their strained relationship. As Shen Youzhi turned to go, Lu Zong grabbed her wrist and kissed her.

• Lu Zong sent for Shen Youzhi and presented her with a Spatial ability user and supplies, believing she was going solo.
• Shen Youzhi denied planning to leave and challenged Lu Zong for believing the base’s rumors.
• After sending the young woman away, Shen Youzhi accused Lu Zong of treating her differently from his other teammates and said he did not consider them to be on the same path.
• Shen Youzhi turned to leave, but Lu Zong pulled her back and kissed her.

Shen Youzhi avoided Lu Zong after he confessed his feelings, but an enormous zombie horde threatened the base before she could resolve their relationship. Lu Zong revealed a secret escape passage and told her to lead people out to safety.

• Lu Zong confessed that he was jealous and interested in Shen Youzhi, then asked why she had stayed; Shen Youzhi hit him and ran away.
• Shen Youzhi tried to avoid joining Lu Zong’s mission team and later accepted a different mission with Da Qiang and Lao Chen.
• Shen Youzhi focused on the mission to escape thoughts of Lu Zong, while the system teased her about avoiding his confession until she blocked it.
• A horde of more than three hundred thousand zombies, including at least a hundred evolved ones, advanced on the base.
• Lu Zong took Shen Youzhi aside and told her to use a secret mountain passage to lead people out and save as many as she could.

Shen Youzhi and Lu Zong stayed to defend their base against a horde of three hundred thousand zombies, surviving a brutal battle that killed many of their companions. As reconstruction began, Shen Youzhi and Lu Zong mourned the dead and shared a can of braised pork Xiaomei had hidden.

• Shen Youzhi refused Lu Zong’s request to flee and joined the base’s defenders against the approaching zombie horde.
• During the battle, Lao Chen killed an evolved zombie with his sniper rifle, then died from his wounds after telling Shen Youzhi to be good to Lu Zong.
• Xiaomei and Da Qiang died protecting others, and many more people fell before the zombie horde retreated at dawn.
• Shen Youzhi found Lu Zong among the survivors, embraced him, and told him that Lao Chen, Xiaomei, and Da Qiang were dead.
• Three days later, Shen Youzhi and Lu Zong began rebuilding the base and buried their companions; Lu Zong gave Shen Youzhi a can of braised pork that Xiaomei had hidden.

After the Zombie Horde, Shen Youzhi and Lu Zong mourned their fallen friends and accepted the future together through a pair of handmade rings. As the base rebuilt, Shen Youzhi proposed a memorial for the dead, and she and Lu Zong ended the day returning to the dorm together.

• Shen Youzhi and Lu Zong remembered Lao Chen, Xiaomei, Da Qiang, and the others while sharing the food Xiaomei had hidden.
• Lu Zong gave Shen Youzhi a pair of rings he had engraved during her absence, and she put one on and told him she had been grateful to find him alive after the battle.
• The next morning, Shen Youzhi awkwardly accepted Lu Zong's congee and confirmed that the rings' letters stood for their names.
• A new girl thanked Shen Youzhi and the base for taking her in and protecting everyone during the Zombie Horde.
• Shen Youzhi asked Lu Zong to turn the hillside graves into a memorial and bring new arrivals there to remember the lives spent defending the base.
• As the base continued its recovery, Lu Zong took the exhausted Shen Youzhi back to the dorm, and the two joked and playfully tussled on the way.