Recaps

After returning from the special date storyline, Bai Luochuan learned that Qi Yu had survived his first battlefield disaster thanks to the medicine Bai Luochuan gave him. He tried to comfort Qi Yu through an embrace and then asked to express his feelings through actions instead.

• Bai Luochuan woke to find Qi Yu healthy and learned that only half a minute had passed in their world while he experienced a day and night in the storyline.
• Qi Yu transformed back into human form and massaged Bai Luochuan's temples as he checked on his condition.
• Bai Luochuan described what he had experienced and asked why Qi Yu had been left alone on the battlefield.
• Qi Yu explained that enemy fire had destroyed his mech and killed everyone else present, but Bai Luochuan's medicine had saved his life.
• Qi Yu reassured Bai Luochuan that the events had happened more than a decade ago and offered to let him check that he was unharmed.
• Bai Luochuan embraced Qi Yu, then kissed him and asked to comfort him through actions rather than words.

After spending the night together, Bai Luochuan and Qi Yu arranged for Qi Yu to return to his room unnoticed, then discussed squeezing future special dates around filming. Bai Luochuan arrived at the show exhausted, where Lan Muxing offered to do his makeup and Bai Luochuan instead invoked his contract with Director Liu to make the production pay again.

• Bai Luochuan asked how Qi Yu would get back to his room, and Qi Yu transformed into a fox so Bai Luochuan could toss him onto the balcony railing.
• Bai Luochuan woke an hour later and opened the game, where Qi Yu apologized for keeping him up; Bai Luochuan said limited-time special dates would suit their filming schedule.
• Qi Yu worried that Bai Luochuan should take the day off, but Bai Luochuan insisted he was fine and went to join the other guests.
• Xu Zhengyin joked that Bai Luochuan looked as if he had saved the world, while Lan Muxing offered to cover his dark circles with makeup.
• Bai Luochuan asked Director Liu whether their original contract still applied, then thanked him for paying the bill again instead of accepting makeup.

The guests traveled to a furniture mall to choose beds with a limited budget, while Bai Luochuan caught up on sleep in the van. After arriving, Bai Luochuan suspected that Director Liu's activity would soon bring trouble, leaving the guests to shop as they waited to see what would happen.

• Bai Luochuan slept against Qi Yu during the van ride, while Qi Yu promised to remember any Production Team announcements.
• The guests arrived at the furniture mall and were reminded to buy necessities first because their vouchers also had to cover food and drinks.
• Chu Zhu complained that the budget could not cover the expensive, large beds he wanted, and Xu Zhengyin suggested trying the more affordable shop next door.
• Xu Zhengyin joined Yang Qingfeng, Lan Muxing, Bai Luochuan, and Qi Yu in the shop with beds that fit the budget.
• Bai Luochuan told Qi Yu that Director Liu's plans seemed too simple and wondered when trouble would begin and who would cause it.

When Chu Zhu lost half of his pair’s vouchers, Xu Zhengyin reassured him that the loss was manageable, while Qi Yu and Bai Luochuan suspected the Production Team’s staff member would target another pair next. They followed the others toward the security room, hoping to catch the thief in the act.

• Chu Zhu discovered that the 25,000 worth of vouchers in his pocket had disappeared and was overwhelmed with worry.
• Xu Zhengyin comforted Chu Zhu, saying they could manage with the vouchers they still had.
• Lan Muxing suggested checking the mall’s security footage, and the other four headed for the monitoring room.
• Qi Yu and Bai Luochuan reasoned that the thief would target another pair and followed at a distance, ready to catch them.

After the mall’s surveillance staff said the cameras near the stores had malfunctioned, Bai Luochuan checked footage from nearby cameras and realized the culprit was still in the area. He headed back to search for the person, telling the others to keep their distance while he handled it.

• The mall staff told Chu Zhu and the other guests that cameras near the stores had malfunctioned, leaving Chu Zhu worried about his missing voucher money.
• Chu Zhu asked Bai Luochuan for help, and Bai Luochuan suggested checking footage from nearby cameras.
• Bai Luochuan watched the footage, then told Qi Yu to keep watching while he went to catch the culprit.
• Bai Luochuan told Lan Muxing and the others that he had not seen the culprit on camera but trusted his instinct that the person was still in the area.
• Bai Luochuan said the culprit was probably targeting all the groups and told the others to stay back while he handled it.

Bai Luochuan exposed the Production Team’s group of staff members who were trying to steal the guests’ vouchers, and the special activity ended after he and Qi Yu identified them all. He explained that he had singled out the actual thief because the man was the only one with physical skills.

• Bai Luochuan browsed merchandise while the other guests followed his lead, and several suspicious customers gradually gathered around Lan Muxing.
• Bai Luochuan caught a staff member reaching for Lan Muxing’s pocket and asked Director Liu to end the activity if he identified the rest of the team.
• The host agreed, and Bai Luochuan named the people around him as the staff team while identifying the man he held as the one who had stolen Chu Zhu’s vouchers.
• Qi Yu arrived with another lookout he had caught, completing the identification of all staff assigned to the task.
• The captured thief returned Chu Zhu’s vouchers, and Bai Luochuan explained that he had recognized the thief as the only member of the group with physical skills.

Bai Luochuan remained determined to become a security guard, while Qi Yu tried to redirect him toward furniture shopping. At lunch, Bai Luochuan enthusiastically accepted a sponsor’s drink and asked whether he could earn more by finishing entire cases.

• A man praised Bai Luochuan’s skills and offered him a job, but Bai Luochuan refused and said he planned to work at Qi Yu’s company after leaving entertainment.
• Qi Yu stopped Bai Luochuan from explaining further, and the man recognized Qi Yu and quickly left with his team.
• Bai Luochuan complained that Qi Yu was prejudiced against security work, while Qi Yu worried that Bai Luochuan was seriously set on becoming a security guard.
• Qi Yu reminded Bai Luochuan that they still needed to choose furniture, and the group resumed shopping until lunchtime.
• Director Liu gave Bai Luochuan a free sponsored drink and told him the advertising fee had increased.
• Bai Luochuan drank half the bottle, then asked whether he would be paid per bottle and offered to finish two cases.

Bai Luochuan’s advertising gig earned him extra drinks to share, and the guests chose beds before discovering that their rooms needed cleaning. Qi Yu cleaned their room himself and told Bai Luochuan he did it so he could keep him in a gilded love nest.

• Bai Luochuan filmed a drink advertisement, finished the half bottle, and persuaded Director Liu to give him extra bottles for the guests.
• The guests chose beds and mattresses, with Yang Qingfeng and Lan Muxing spending 6,000 tokens, Bai Luochuan and Qi Yu spending 14,000, and Chu Zhu’s team spending 30,000.
• The guests found their assigned rooms filthy, and the host explained that they could clean themselves or pay the Production Team for help.
• Xu Zhengyin and Chu Zhu paid 5,000 tokens each for cleaning, while Yang Qingfeng and Lan Muxing paid 4,000 to have the common areas cleaned.
• Qi Yu chose to clean his and Bai Luochuan’s room himself, and told Bai Luochuan he wanted to keep him in a gilded love nest.

Bai Luochuan and Qi Yu discussed Qi Yu’s fantasy of living alone together in a hidden house, and Bai Luochuan admitted he might even accept being kept there. After they finished cleaning and settled into the empty house, Bai Luochuan resolved to make their future home cozy so Qi Yu would never feel lonely again.

• Qi Yu described his wish for a private house where he could take care of Bai Luochuan, and Bai Luochuan pointed out that keeping him there would be imprisonment.
• Bai Luochuan briefly considered letting Qi Yu lock him away, then shook off the thought and returned to cleaning.
• Bai Luochuan and Qi Yu spent the day cleaning their house while Chu Zhu’s group used staff to finish their setup quickly.
• After showering, Bai Luochuan sat in Qi Yu’s arms in the empty living room and thought about how lonely Qi Yu’s past must have been.
• Bai Luochuan told Qi Yu he wanted their future home to feel cozy and welcoming, so Qi Yu would always know someone was waiting for him.

Bai Luochuan and Qi Yu planned their home together, then kept each other company by video call after the cameras went off. Bai Luochuan fell asleep with Qi Yu watching over him, and Qi Yu wished him good night.

• Bai Luochuan and Qi Yu discussed how to arrange and decorate their shared home while viewers watched the livestream.
• Yang Qingfeng and Lan Muxing reviewed photos of their model home and planned where to put furniture and decorations.
• The Production Team reminded everyone that surveillance cameras were still running and warned Qi Yu not to sneak into Bai Luochuan’s room.
• Bai Luochuan accidentally opened the game and started a video call with Qi Yu after they returned to their rooms.
• Qi Yu asked Bai Luochuan to keep the call open and rest, and Bai Luochuan fell asleep holding his fox plush.
• Qi Yu kissed his phone screen and told Bai Luochuan to make sure he appeared in his dreams.

Bai Luochuan and Qi Yu enjoyed a rare moment of domestic life before Bai Luochuan offered the other guests affordable breakfasts cooked by Qi Yu. The guests paid them in tokens for breakfast and dinner, and Bai Luochuan joked that Qi Yu’s cooking could support them if his company failed.

• Bai Luochuan woke feeling refreshed and told Qi Yu that seeing him in the morning had made him feel as though they were back home.
• The Production Team offered breakfast for one thousand tokens per person, leaving the guests worried about the cost and their lack of cooking skills.
• Bai Luochuan proposed that guests buy their own ingredients and pay his breakfast shop fifty tokens per person to cook for them.
• Lan Muxing paid Bai Luochuan a hundred tokens to book breakfast and dinner, and the other guests followed, giving him four hundred tokens.
• Qi Yu made potato-and-egg flatbread wraps for breakfast, and the guests enjoyed them while Bai Luochuan praised Qi Yu’s cooking.

Qi Yu planned to find Bai Luochuan a job he would like better than being a security guard, while the guests discussed how their bare rooms had affected them. At the furniture mall, the Production Team staged an argument about a couple’s shopping disagreement and urged the guests to join in to unlock the rest of the story.

• Qi Yu decided he needed to find Bai Luochuan a more satisfying job before the variety show ended and ruled out security work.
• Bai Luochuan and Qi Yu said decorating their room together had been fun, while Xu Zhengyin and Chu Zhu described feeling unnerved by their empty room and asked to exchange their bed.
• The host turned down Xu Zhengyin and Chu Zhu’s request, and the Production Team took the guests back to the furniture mall to continue shopping.
• The guests watched actors Xiao Mei and Xiao Shuai argue over furniture colors, a sofa, and their budget before Xiao Shuai stormed off.
• The host called the staged breakup an example of poor communication and asked the guests to shout the sponsor’s slogan to unlock the couple’s next scene.

The guests went shopping to furnish their homes, but tight budgets and a decorating dispute limited what they bought. When they returned, they discovered a burst pipe and learned that repairs would cost 5,000 tokens.

• Bai Luochuan dismissed Director Liu's skit and led Qi Yu away with the other guests.
• Chu Zhu and Xu Zhengyin bought only bedside tables and night-lights because they had too few tokens to afford more.
• Lan Muxing and Yang Qingfeng argued over the living room's style, then agreed to decorate their bedrooms first and postpone the decision.
• Lan Muxing bought ingredients for Bai Luochuan and Qi Yu's dinner, asking Qi Yu to cook for everyone.
• The guests found Chu Zhu and Xu Zhengyin waiting outside after a pipe burst in their home, and learned repairs would cost 5,000 tokens.

Bai Luochuan fixed the guests’ burst pipes for tokens, drawing more attention to his many skills. After dinner, the Production Team announced a viewer-voted role-playing challenge as another way to earn tokens.

• Bai Luochuan offered to repair Chu Zhu’s pipes for a discount, and Chu Zhu went to find the Production Team.
• Lan Muxing gave Bai Luochuan 1,000 tokens, and Bai Luochuan quickly repaired the pipes in three rooms.
• Xu Zhengyin asked Bai Luochuan what he could not do, but Qi Yu redirected the conversation by serving him more food.
• The host announced a role-playing challenge featuring three scenarios, with tokens awarded to the pair that received the most viewer support.

The guests discussed which of three role-play scenarios they wanted viewers to choose, while Bai Luochuan and Qi Yu privately looked forward to trying every option. The vote remained underway as Bai Luochuan declared that adults did not need to choose just one.

• Bai Luochuan asked Qi Yu whether the little mermaid role suited him, and Qi Yu enthusiastically praised his ability to play a succubus.
• Lan Muxing said the first scenario did not suit him, while Yang Qingfeng agreed that neither wanted to play a soldier opposite an actual Commander.
• Chu Zhu chose the succubus scenario because he and Xu Zhengyin desperately needed the bonus tokens, and Xu Zhengyin agreed they should fight for their meals.
• Lan Muxing said he wanted to play a mermaid, and viewers debated whether he was a hopeless romantic.
• Qi Yu asked Bai Luochuan which scenario he wanted and hinted they could play the unchosen ones in private.
• Bai Luochuan said they were adults and should want every scenario instead of choosing.

Bai Luochuan and Qi Yu won the audience vote to perform the imperial prince and sadistic Commander scenario, while Bai Luochuan admitted he preferred a more suggestive scenario. Lan Muxing and Yang Qingfeng, and Chu Zhu and Xu Zhengyin, were assigned the other performances, leaving Chu Zhu flustered as his pair had to prepare and go first.

• Bai Luochuan said he wanted to share in the audience's joy, and the directors agreed to hold more themed activities in the future rather than change the rules.
• The Production Team announced that Bai Luochuan and Qi Yu had won the chance to perform the imperial prince and sadistic Commander scenario with over 90% of the votes.
• Bai Luochuan said he had preferred the scenario where Fox-Fox became a Succubus, and Qi Yu suggested they save that kind of thing for private.
• The audience chose Lan Muxing and Yang Qingfeng for the second scenario, while Chu Zhu and Xu Zhengyin narrowly won the third.
• The host told Chu Zhu and Xu Zhengyin to prepare first and perform first, and Xu Zhengyin asked for a script before they went to get ready.

Chu Zhu and Xu Zhengyin performed a siren-and-pirate scene that ended with the pirate kissing the mermaid before dying underwater. After the performance, Qi Yu offered to sing as a siren for Bai Luochuan next time.

• Chu Zhu sang as a mermaid while Xu Zhengyin approached dressed as a pirate.
• Xu Zhengyin took Chu Zhu’s offered hand, and Chu Zhu revealed himself as a dangerous siren and dragged him underwater.
• As Xu Zhengyin suffocated, he embraced Chu Zhu and kissed his cheek before collapsing on the bottom of the pool.
• The directing team called cut, and the performers surfaced to praise and excitement from the audience.
• Bai Luochuan joked that he could not sing, and Qi Yu offered to play a siren and try to steal his soul next time.

Qi Yu and Bai Luochuan flirted during their role-play date, while Yang Qingfeng and Lan Muxing performed a succubus-and-professor scene that thrilled the livestream viewers. The final performance began with Qi Yu bound to a chair, greeting Bai Luochuan as the commander he had been waiting for.

• Qi Yu told Bai Luochuan he could sing and play instruments, prompting Bai Luochuan to fantasize about their date and curse the game for not offering more scenarios.
• Yang Qingfeng played a restrained professor while Lan Muxing played a seductive succubus, gradually drawing him into an embrace.
• Yang Qingfeng carried Lan Muxing into a room, and the production team called cut as viewers excitedly reacted to their performance.
• The camera moved to Bai Luochuan and Qi Yu's darkly lit room, where Qi Yu sat bound to an iron chair with a collar and leash.
• Qi Yu raised his head, smiled, and told the arriving commander that he had waited a long time.

Bai Luochuan and Qi Yu continued their scripted scene as a military commander and a fallen prince, but their real attraction made it difficult to stay in character. Bai Luochuan ended the scene by kissing Qi Yu intensely, prompting Director Liu to call for a cut.

• The livestream viewers reacted excitedly to Qi Yu’s battle-damaged appearance and Bai Luochuan’s military uniform.
• Bai Luochuan approached Qi Yu with a leather whip, while Qi Yu struggled to hide how attracted he was to him.
• Bai Luochuan pressed the whip under Qi Yu’s chin and asked when he would answer his questions.
• Qi Yu replied that Bai Luochuan would have to pay a high price for the answers, and the two exchanged suggestive looks.
• Bai Luochuan pulled Qi Yu forward by the collar and kissed him directly on the lips.
• Director Liu called for the scene to be cut, saying the kiss was too intense to air.

Bai Luochuan and Qi Yu finished their performance and returned to the waiting area, where Lan Muxing praised Bai Luochuan's acting. Qi Yu offered to support Bai Luochuan if he wanted to try acting, leaving Bai Luochuan surprised by his willingness to let him pursue work outside the home.

• Bai Luochuan and Qi Yu shared a kiss after their performance, and Qi Yu praised Bai Luochuan's costume and asked him to wear it for him again.
• Director Liu called Bai Luochuan and Qi Yu to the waiting area, where the other guests had changed out of their costumes.
• Lan Muxing praised Bai Luochuan's performance and suggested he try acting, prompting Bai Luochuan to ask whether acting paid well.
• Qi Yu offered to invest in Bai Luochuan's acting or writing projects and find him a screenwriter and director.
• Bai Luochuan questioned why Qi Yu supported him working in public, and Qi Yu explained that he knew Bai Luochuan could not stay cooped up at home.

Qi Yu tried to steer Bai Luochuan away from becoming a security guard by persuading him to work at Qi Yu’s company, while the guests learned the results of their performance vote. After the evening’s activities, a game update unlocked a date mode for Bai Luochuan and the male lead of his choice.

• Bai Luochuan offered to watch doors occasionally at places such as crematoriums or morgues, but Qi Yu insisted he should work at Qi Yu’s company instead.
• The host announced that Yang Qingfeng and Lan Muxing had won the audience vote, while Bai Luochuan and Qi Yu’s performance was judged immersion-breaking because Qi Yu’s expressions and demeanor did not fit.
• Director Liu awarded Yang Qingfeng and Lan Muxing 5,000 tokens and gave the other two pairs 2,000 tokens each.
• Back in their room, Qi Yu tried to draw Bai Luochuan into reliving their performance, but Bai Luochuan hesitated because of the surveillance equipment.
• Bai Luochuan received a game update notification announcing that Dream Date ×1 had been unlocked and showed it to Qi Yu.

Bai Luochuan spent heavily to obtain the token for a special dream date, and he and Qi Yu went to sleep expecting to meet in a dream. Bai Luochuan entered a vivid dream and found Qi Yu waiting in a lavish pink room, leaving them poised to begin their date.

• Qi Yu questioned whether the Dream Date message was strange, but Bai Luochuan argued that the game’s supernatural powers made a dream date plausible.
• Bai Luochuan spent money on gacha pulls until he obtained the required token, and a message announced that the Dream Illusion date would begin within half an hour.
• Bai Luochuan kissed Qi Yu before they returned to separate rooms and lay down to sleep.
• Bai Luochuan entered a vivid dream, found himself dressed in a formal suit, and followed a floating arrow down a corridor.
• Bai Luochuan opened an ornate door and found Qi Yu sitting on an enormous pink bed in a palace-like room.

Bai Luochuan dreamed of Qi Yu as a seductive succubus, then kissed him after waking and seeing his fox tail. At the guests’ shared space, viewers wondered why Bai Luochuan looked so satisfied and tired, while Director Liu confirmed the surveillance showed neither man had visited the other’s room.

• Bai Luochuan dreamed that Qi Yu, dressed as a succubus, seduced him.
• Bai Luochuan woke feeling blissfully satisfied, then saw Qi Yu’s exposed chest and tried to control himself.
• Bai Luochuan grabbed Qi Yu’s swaying fox tail and kissed him passionately before they got ready to film.
• The guests handed Bai Luochuan their meal-money tokens as the livestream viewers noticed his tired, satisfied expression.
• Viewers demanded that Director Liu check the surveillance footage, but he found no alerts and wondered if they had been dreaming.

The guests learned that they could earn tokens through new romance-themed activities, then traveled to a pink-decorated venue for games combining physical and mental skills. Bai Luochuan struggled with an interstellar love-poem quiz, leaving his pair tied for last with zero points.

• Lan Muxing and Yang Qingfeng agreed to decorate their living room as a fairy-tale wonderland, while Chu Zhu and Xu Zhengyin planned to buy a sofa.
• The host announced that the guests could earn tokens by taking part in the day's activities.
• After lunch, the Production Team brought the guests to a pink, heart-decorated venue for activities themed around love and romance through exercise.
• Bai Luochuan questioned whether physical games would be unfair, and the host explained that the activities would also test mental skills.
• During a quiz about interstellar love poems, Lan Muxing and Chu Zhu raced to answer while Bai Luochuan and Qi Yu failed to score after ten questions.

Bai Luochuan’s team lost the poetry contest, while Lan Muxing and Chu Zhu won by a narrow margin. When Qi Yu asked Bai Luochuan to recite a love poem from his hometown, Bai Luochuan shared lines about holding hands and growing old together.

• Qi Yu answered one question correctly near the end, keeping Bai Luochuan’s team from finishing with zero points, while Lan Muxing and Chu Zhu narrowly won the contest.
• The host awarded Lan Muxing’s team gold medals, Chu Zhu’s team silver medals, and Bai Luochuan’s team bronze medals.
• Yang Qingfeng, Xu Zhengyin, Lan Muxing, and Chu Zhu explained their knowledge of poetry and their strategies during the host’s interviews.
• Qi Yu admitted that he had forgotten much of the poetry he learned before, and Bai Luochuan said love poems from his hometown were different.
• Qi Yu took Bai Luochuan’s hand and asked him to recite a hometown love poem, so Bai Luochuan recited lines about making a vow, holding hands, and growing old together.