Chapter Summaries

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.

Bai Luochuan recited love poems for Qi Yu, who asked him to make up for never hearing them before. When the others asked about Bai Luochuan’s distant hometown, his vague answer left the livestream viewers speculating and sparked several trending topics.

• Bai Luochuan recited the love poems he knew after Qi Yu eagerly asked to hear more.
• Bai Luochuan realized Qi Yu wanted him to confess his love and teased him for beating around the bush.
• Qi Yu said he wanted a different kind of confession and asked Bai Luochuan to make it up to him after filming.
• Lan Muxing asked Bai Luochuan where his hometown was, and Bai Luochuan said it was so far away it might as well be a dream.
• Netizens speculated that Bai Luochuan came from a barren planet, and topics about his hometown and his relationship with Qi Yu trended.

Lu Ran dealt with questions from Qi Yu’s family about Bai Luochuan while rumors about Bai Luochuan’s identity spread online. Back on set, a music relay game began, and Bai Luochuan struggled to hear the song beneath a crosstalk recording.

• Lu Ran found little information to erase about Bai Luochuan’s past, since Bai Luochuan had been an orphan living in the slums before becoming a child star.
• Qi Yu’s mother called Lu Ran, worried that Qi Yu might betray his feelings, and Lu Ran told her Bai Luochuan’s arrival was due to transmigration.
• The Production Team resumed filming with a paired Love Song Relay game, and Chu Zhu and Xu Zhengyin agreed to a higher difficulty.
• Lan Muxing praised Bai Luochuan’s singing, and Bai Luochuan thought his memory might help him reproduce the song.
• Bai Luochuan discovered that his headphones played background music beneath a crosstalk routine, leaving him distracted by the punchlines and unable to identify the tune.

Bai Luochuan tried to memorize a song while listening to jokes and confidently hummed it for Qi Yu, who faithfully reproduced his completely off-key version. The guests and livestream viewers laughed at the results as the teams gave up or told jokes instead of singing.

• Xu Zhengyin and Yang Qingfeng struggled to recall their melodies after the audio filled with jokes, while Xu Zhengyin made Chu Zhu laugh by telling him jokes.
• Bai Luochuan confidently hummed what he thought was the song for Qi Yu, though Qi Yu quickly sensed that something was wrong.
• Qi Yu trusted Bai Luochuan and repeated every note exactly as he had heard it, despite the tune being completely different from the original.
• Chu Zhu and Lan Muxing gave up on singing, and the guests listened to the original audio and laughed at how well they had remembered the jokes instead.
• Qi Yu covered his face after hearing the comparison, but still found Bai Luochuan adorable despite his tone-deafness.

All three teams tied for last place after their singing performances, and Qi Yu reassured Bai Luochuan that he liked his singing. At the next activity, the guests realized the heart-catching challenge required partners to work together, and Qi Yu persuaded Bai Luochuan to try it.

• All three teams received bronze medals after their singing performances ended in defeat.
• Bai Luochuan asked Qi Yu whether his singing was bad, and Qi Yu reassured him that he liked Bai Luochuan's style.
• Viewers argued over Bai Luochuan's singing as the host led the guests to a new activity.
• Lan Muxing pointed out that the bamboo pole was too short to reach the hearts, and the host explained that partners had to work together.
• Bai Luochuan compared the challenge to a childhood game of pretend knights, while Xu Zhengyin joked that the guests would be playing pretend.
• Qi Yu asked Bai Luochuan to give him a chance to try the partner challenge.

During a couples’ game, Bai Luochuan and Qi Yu dominated the challenge, and Qi Yu admitted he wished he could keep Bai Luochuan by his side. Bai Luochuan offered to pause his job search after filming so Qi Yu could support him and feel more secure.

• Director Liu warned Bai Luochuan not to use the foam bamboo pole for pole-vaulting, and Bai Luochuan stopped testing it.
• Qi Yu carried Bai Luochuan on his shoulders as Bai Luochuan hooked every visible heart from the wall, winning the game before time ran out.
• After the host ended the game, Qi Yu kept Bai Luochuan on his shoulders and said he wished Bai Luochuan could never leave his side.
• Bai Luochuan told Qi Yu he would not rush to find work after filming and would let Qi Yu support him for a while.
• Bai Luochuan explained that he wanted Qi Yu to feel secure before he returned to pursuing his own career.