Chapter Summaries

Bai Luochuan doted on Qi Yu, his virtual boyfriend of five years, while Qi Yu longed to meet him in person. After learning Qi Yu was only a character in a game, Bai Luochuan rushed to finish a deadly mercenary mission so he could return to him, but was struck by a sudden attack just after logging in.

• Qi Yu asked Bai Luochuan to meet his family and visit in person, but Bai Luochuan put him off and promised gifts instead.
• Qi Yu accepted the gifts and asked Bai Luochuan for a kiss, then told him to make it up to him when he returned.
• Bai Luochuan bought Qi Yu 99 grooming combs, 99 fur glosses, every new outfit, and piles of gifts before closing the dating game.
• Bai Luochuan realized Qi Yu was a virtual boyfriend he had raised in the game for five years and wondered why Qi Yu was absent from the official website.
• Bai Luochuan stormed an enemy camp and killed its defenders, then hurried to log into the game to kiss Qi Yu.
• As Bai Luochuan logged in, blood gushed from him and his vision blurred, but he kept his eyes on the game screen, determined to say goodbye to Qi Yu.

Qi Yu saw Bai Luochuan apparently die during their video call and was devastated by their final, broken connection. Bai Luochuan then woke in an unfamiliar body and called Qi Yu through their game, only for Qi Yu to demand to know who he was.

• Qi Yu answered Bai Luochuan's video call and saw him lying dead in a pool of blood.
• Qi Yu struggled to accept Bai Luochuan's apparent death and mourned the kiss Bai Luochuan still owed him.
• Bai Luochuan woke in an unfamiliar room and body, despite remembering being fatally shot and having his throat cut.
• Bai Luochuan checked his reflection, then logged into their familiar game and called Qi Yu.
• Qi Yu saw Bai Luochuan on the call, asked where his ge was, and demanded to know who he was.

After reassuring Qi Yu through the game, Bai Luochuan discovered that his new identity had almost no money and learned that he was a Beta who had been beaten after rumors linked him to an Alpha. Meanwhile, Qi Yu ordered Lu Ran to investigate Bai Luochuan in detail because the brief call had made him wonder if he was imagining his missing lover.

• Bai Luochuan explained his changed appearance to Qi Yu, promised to contact him again, and kissed the phone camera before trying to buy Qi Yu gifts.
• Bai Luochuan's payments failed, and he discovered that his two bank cards held only 500 in total.
• Chen Miao called Bai Luochuan and explained that he was a Beta who had been beaten after getting involved with the high-grade Alpha Yan Cheng.
• Bai Luochuan claimed he could not remember what Chen Miao was talking about, so Chen Miao decided to come over and speak with him in person.
• Lu Ran told Qi Yu that the person from the call was a minor Beta actor with the same name, but Qi Yu ordered a detailed investigation and wondered if he had mistaken him for his spouse because he missed him so much.

After waking in a world matching his game, Bai Luochuan learned about his scandal, his dwindling finances, and the original owner’s failed attempts to become an Omega. He accepted a paid dating-show offer alongside Yan Cheng, insisting that the person he loved liked him as he was.

• Bai Luochuan discovered that his game had come with him and that online users were condemning him over a scandal involving Yan Cheng.
• Chen Miao arrived and suspected Bai Luochuan had lost his memory when he denied liking Yan Cheng and failed to recognize his manager.
• Chen Miao explained Bai Luochuan’s career troubles and revealed that he had spent large sums on fraudulent Omega-conversion programs.
• Chen Miao offered Bai Luochuan a paid spot on a dating show featuring Yan Cheng, and Bai Luochuan eagerly accepted.
• Bai Luochuan told Chen Miao he would not pursue conversion again because the person he loved liked him as a Beta.

Bai Luochuan explained to Chen Miao that he had loved his boyfriend from a dating game for years, then discovered the game was under emergency maintenance and could not reach Qi Yu. As he arrived to film the dating show, he ignored Chen Miao’s warnings and fired back at online abuse aimed at him for being a Beta.

• Bai Luochuan told Chen Miao that his only love was Qi Yu, his boyfriend in a dating game, and Chen Miao agreed to arrange his appearance on the variety show.
• Bai Luochuan tried to call Qi Yu, but the game displayed an emergency-maintenance notice and forcibly logged him out.
• Bai Luochuan spent a day studying the game, but it remained inaccessible, leaving him exhausted when Chen Miao came to collect him.
• Chen Miao mistook Bai Luochuan’s exhaustion for distress over Yan Cheng, while Bai Luochuan remained focused on the game and his inability to contact Qi Yu.
• At the filming location, Bai Luochuan read attacks against him for being a Beta and posted several mocking replies online.

Bai Luochuan and Qi Yu joined a masked livestream dating show, each hoping to meet someone important to him. As the guests began introducing themselves, Bai Luochuan openly declared that he loved playing with men.

• Bai Luochuan thanked Chen Miao for the ride and hurried to the filming location.
• A staff member told Bai Luochuan that the guests would wear mascot heads and use voice changers during the show’s opening segment.
• Qi Yu ignored Lu Ran’s doubts, concealed his face with a mascot head, and resolved to find the person he believed might be his lover.
• The host explained that guests could talk for half an hour and exchange rings to form date pairs.
• After the cat-headed guest suggested introducing themselves and their hobbies, Bai Luochuan said he loved playing with men.

Bai Luochuan introduced himself as someone who preferred digital men, while Fox questioned him and then offered him a ring and a partnership. Bai Luochuan refused, saying he was married, and Qi Yu was left to believe his wife considered him a digital plaything and a side piece.

• Bai Luochuan said he liked tall, muscular, silver-haired men who acted cute, but clarified that they could not be real.
• Fox said he had no hobbies, then answered the cat head’s follow-up with “Eating. Sleeping.”
• Fox asked Bai Luochuan why he would not date real men, and Bai Luochuan said digital boyfriends were more perfect.
• Qi Yu, disguised as Fox, presented Bai Luochuan with a ring and asked him to team up.
• Bai Luochuan refused three times, saying he was married and did not want to team up, leaving Qi Yu stunned.

Bai Luochuan rebuffed the lion alpha’s attempt to flirt with him, while Qi Yu watched. After the guests revealed their identities, Chu Zhu angrily defended his status as an omega against those judging him by his appearance.

• Bai Luochuan claimed his marriage was only to a character in a romance game and accused the lion alpha of trying to become a homewrecker.
• The guests failed to pair up during the trial interaction, and Qi Yu was the only one to take out a ring.
• Lan Muxing removed his cat headpiece and introduced himself as an omega.
• He Gui revealed himself as the beta actor beneath the raccoon cat headpiece, and Chu Zhu revealed himself as an omega singer beneath the rabbit headpiece.
• Chu Zhu confronted the others for seeming to doubt he was an omega because of his figure and insisted that pheromones determined a person’s sex.

Bai Luochuan revealed himself as the chick mascot and traded insults with Chu Zhu and Yan Cheng, escalating the conflict on set. The fox mascot then revealed himself as Qi Yu, whose appearance left Yan Cheng intimidated while Bai Luochuan admired his game cosplay.

• Bai Luochuan took off the chick head and calmly admitted to Chu Zhu that he was a Beta.
• Chu Zhu charged at Bai Luochuan, but Bai Luochuan dodged and tripped him, smearing dirt across his face before staff led him away.
• Yan Cheng removed the lion head and scolded Bai Luochuan, who answered with an insult comparing Yan Cheng and his allies to animals.
• The fox mascot stepped between Yan Cheng and Bai Luochuan, then removed his head to reveal Qi Yu with silver hair and golden eyes.
• Qi Yu looked toward Bai Luochuan, who barely reacted to the reveal and instead admired how accurately Qi Yu had recreated a game character.

Qi Yu introduced himself to Bai Luochuan, but Bai mistook him for a cosplayer and told him he would not share his favorite character. The guests drew lots for a hide-and-seek activity, and as Qi Yu went to hide, Yan Cheng confronted Bai Luochuan about their past agreement.

• Qi Yu threatened Yan Cheng and Chu Zhu with legal action over Yan Cheng's discriminatory remarks, then introduced himself to Bai Luochuan.
• Bai Luochuan thanked Qi Yu for his help but mistook him for a cosplayer and said he was a self-shipper who would not share his favorite.
• The host announced a team-based hide-and-seek activity, and the guests drew lots to determine who would hide and seek.
• Lan Muxing, He Gui, and Qi Yu drew the hider roles, while Yan Cheng approached Bai Luochuan and accused him of breaking their past agreement.

Bai Luochuan wondered whether his lost-memory self had been involved with Yan Cheng, then joined a horror-game search at an abandoned hospital. He ignored a jumpscare and fell asleep in a restroom, leaving viewers to debate whether he was exhausted, had given up, or fainted from fright.

• Bai Luochuan noticed Yan Cheng act as if his earlier remarks had never happened and wondered whether they had once been involved.
• The host explained that the guests would search an abandoned-hospital set and had to catch someone to form a team.
• Chu Zhu, frightened but determined to get closer to Qi Yu, insisted on entering the hospital.
• Bai Luochuan entered through his assigned door and walked straight to the first-floor restroom instead of searching.
• A projected ghost rushed at Bai Luochuan, but he yawned, sat in a corner, and fell asleep.
• Viewers watching Bai Luochuan's camera wondered whether he was exhausted, had given up on the game, or had fainted from fright.

During the horror escape-room search, Chu Zhu fainted after encountering a ghost, leaving Yan Cheng as the only seeker while Bai Luochuan slept. Qi Yu roamed the building, preparing a corpse-bed scene in hopes of recreating a date with his wife and making their virtual relationship real.

• Bai Luochuan chose to sleep rather than livestream a game that might reveal Qi Yu to viewers.
• Chu Zhu opened a door, saw a blood-covered ghost, and fainted, prompting the production team to pause his livestream.
• The production team activated cameras showing Qi Yu, He Gui, and Lan Muxing as the search party dwindled to Yan Cheng alone.
• He Gui hid in a corner room, while Lan Muxing chose a room by the second-floor stairs and waited for Yan Cheng to find him.
• Qi Yu searched the upper floors, moved a fake corpse to a doorway, and lay down in the morgue to recreate an old date for his wife.

Qi Yu searched the hospital for Bai Luochuan after mistaking the monitor’s moving light for his wife, while Yan Cheng backed away from teaming up with him. Qi Yu found Bai Luochuan and persuaded him to leave together by pretending he was too scared to hide alone.

• Yan Cheng opened the morgue door, saw Qi Yu sit up, and hurriedly left after Qi Yu warned him off.
• Qi Yu realized Bai Luochuan had stayed in one place and searched the hospital rooms until he found him.
• Bai Luochuan mistook Qi Yu for a remarkably accurate cosplayer and struggled to contain his excitement.
• Qi Yu took Bai Luochuan’s hand and declared that they had teamed up, then asked him to leave the hospital together.
• Qi Yu claimed he was too scared to hide alone and coaxed Bai Luochuan with, “Will you take me out of here, ge?”

Bai Luochuan mistook the real Qi Yu for a cosplayer, even as Qi Yu used their old in-game ritual to get him to hold the end of his tie. Bai Luochuan left the haunted hospital longing for the Qi Yu in his phone, while Qi Yu wondered if Bai Luochuan had ever truly loved him.

• Live viewers and the production crew doubted that the affectionate man was really Qi Yu, prompting the directors to contact Qi Yu’s liaison.
• When a ghost illusion appeared by the exit, Qi Yu pulled Bai Luochuan into his arms, but Bai Luochuan pushed him away and called him a man staying in character.
• Qi Yu claimed he was too frightened to walk and offered Bai Luochuan the other end of his tie so they could hold hands without touching.
• Bai Luochuan remembered the same tie ritual from his dates with the Qi Yu inside his game and recalled how they had used it to feel connected across the screen.
• After leaving the hospital, Bai Luochuan let go of the tie and focused on his anger at the game company for keeping him from logging in.
• Qi Yu wondered whether Bai Luochuan had ever loved him and concluded that a bad Beta could love someone and leave them.

Yan Cheng and Lan Muxing left the hospital together, and the production team paired the guests for a new game to decide who would get the high-end lunch. During the finger-folding game, Qi Yu kept matching Bai Luochuan’s answers and ended by declaring himself a hopeless romantic.

• Yan Cheng carried Lan Muxing out of the hospital, where Lan claimed he had twisted his ankle, while He Gui was brought out to join Chu Zhu.
• The production team announced that the guests would play a finger-folding game for the high-end boxed meal reserved for the winner.
• Lan Muxing said he had joined the show to see someone, and Yan Cheng and Qi Yu kept their fingers raised while He Gui, Chu Zhu, and Bai Luochuan folded theirs.
• He Gui said he had never used a double while filming, and Chu Zhu said he owned more than twenty properties across the Empire; Qi Yu folded no fingers for either statement.
• Yan Cheng said there was someone present he cared about, and Bai Luochuan later said he had been married for over a year.
• Qi Yu said he had been married for one year, three months, and five days, then declared that he was a hopeless romantic who had voluntarily given up on treatment.

Qi Yu revealed that he and Bai Luochuan were married online in a game, then tried to get closer to him during the dating show. When the guests went into the woods to find dinner ingredients, Bai Luochuan climbed a tree at astonishing speed, leaving Qi Yu wondering if he remembered they were on a dating show.

• Qi Yu told the host that he was married to Bai Luochuan through an online game, while Bai Luochuan declared himself a hopeless romantic by keeping his finger raised.
• Qi Yu won the game and swapped his best boxed lunch with Bai Luochuan's, persuading him to share the meal and become his regular filming partner.
• The production team sent the guests into the woods to find ingredient signs for dinner, and Qi Yu agreed to join after Bai Luochuan decided to go.
• Qi Yu spotted a sign high in a tree and considered lifting Bai Luochuan to reach it, but Bai Luochuan climbed the trunk himself at remarkable speed.

Bai Luochuan gathered the signs by climbing trees and wading through the river while Qi Yu followed and carried them. Yan Cheng fell into the water during his own attempt, then grew unsettled when Bai Luochuan ran off, leaving Yan Cheng with Lan Muxing.

• Bai Luochuan swung from a tree branch to take down a sign and handed it to Qi Yu.
• Bai Luochuan collected the treetop and river signs by himself while Qi Yu watched and held them.
• Lan Muxing lost his grip on Yan Cheng when a splash startled him, and Yan Cheng fell into the river.
• Bai Luochuan picked up a nearby sign and told Yan Cheng the water was shallow enough to retrieve it himself.
• Yan Cheng returned to shore, embraced Lan Muxing, and began to blame Bai Luochuan before seeing him run away.
• Yan Cheng felt unsettled when Bai Luochuan left, while Lan Muxing stayed with him.

After Yan Cheng saw Bai Luochuan again on the show, he struggled with his unexpected attraction and irritation as the teams gathered ingredients for dinner. The chapter ended with Bai Luochuan brandishing a bloodstained cleaver and asking where to find the chickens, ducks, and fish.

• Yan Cheng recalled how he had treated Bai Luochuan as a servant and forced him to sign an agreement cutting off their relationship.
• Yan Cheng watched Bai Luochuan resting in the sunlight and felt an unexpected attraction, but Qi Yu’s icy gaze made him look away.
• The host collected the teams’ signs and distributed ingredients, with Bai Luochuan’s team receiving the most and Chu Zhu and He Gui’s team barely gathering enough for one dish.
• Lan Muxing asked Yan Cheng to cook for their team, and Yan Cheng reassured him that he would handle it.
• Bai Luochuan fetched a cleaver and asked the host where he could get chickens, ducks, and fish, alarming the guests with his bloodstained blade and murderous air.

The guests cooked dinner for the show while Bai Luochuan's knife skills impressed everyone and Qi Yu grew increasingly affectionate toward him. Qi Yu's intimate attention left Bai Luochuan flustered, and the chapter ended with viewers comparing Qi Yu's practiced cooking to Yan Cheng's.

• The director canceled the plan to have Bai Luochuan kill a chicken and sent the guests to cook with prepared ingredients.
• Lan Muxing and Yan Cheng washed and chopped vegetables together while He Gui and Chu Zhu joined the others in the kitchen.
• Bai Luochuan chopped the vegetables and poultry with impressive speed as Qi Yu watched him admiringly.
• Qi Yu took Bai Luochuan to the sink and washed their hands together, but Bai Luochuan pushed him away and threatened to switch partners.
• Qi Yu began cooking beside Yan Cheng, prompting viewers to compare their cooking skills and question how Qi Yu had learned to cook.

Qi Yu impressed Bai Luochuan with his cooking, while Yan Cheng’s heart-rate monitor reacted strongly to footage of Bai Luochuan during the interviews to decide the house’s sleeping arrangements. Yan Cheng denied being interested in Bai and named Lan Muxing instead.

• Qi Yu told the host he had learned to cook for someone he liked, then served Bai Luochuan a dish that Bai enjoyed.
• Lan Muxing stopped praising Yan Cheng’s cooking when he saw Bai Luochuan and Qi Yu’s dishes, while Yan Cheng grew resentful of Bai.
• The host explained that the guests would name the person they cared about most to determine their rooms for the night.
• Yan Cheng entered the interview room first and put on a wristband that measured his heart rate as he watched footage from the day.
• Yan Cheng’s heart rate spiked at footage of Bai Luochuan, but he claimed he was afraid of Bai and named Lan Muxing as the person he cared about most.