Chapter Summaries

Li Yi tricked Zhou Xuanze and Lu Junjia into thinking he had missed the chance to choose a university, while making them believe Shi Yan was backing him. Meanwhile, Li Yi joined Lu Xingluo’s variety show, whose production team signed him after learning about his high score and planned enrollment at Beiqing University.

• Zhou Xuanze and Lu Junjia entered Li Yi’s exam details before the deadline and discovered he had already chosen a university, then realized he had played them.
• Li Yi told Zhou Xuanze that Shi Yan had checked his score and helped submit his choices, leading Zhou Xuanze and Lu Junjia to believe Shi Yan was his new backer.
• Li Yi reflected that letting the Lu family think he was close to Shi Yan would make them more wary of moving against him.
• The variety-show production team agreed to sign Li Yi after learning he had scored highly on the Gaokao and would attend Beiqing University.
• Lu Xingluo complained to her manager about the ordinary student among the show’s guests and discussed plans to pair herself with a popular singer.
• Li Yi overheard Lu Xingluo dismissing him as an ordinary person who might cling to celebrities, then went upstairs as her manager promised to remind him to know his place.

Li Yi secured three days off from Shi Yan to film a charity variety show, then arrived early at a nursing home and helped serve breakfast. He befriended singer Su Xia over a shared breakfast buffet, and the chapter ended as Qiao Qianqian and Cheng Qing arrived and Li Yi offered to get them food.

• Li Yi asked Shi Yan for three days off to film a show, and Shi Yan agreed after Yingjun vouched for Li Yi’s detailed garden-care schedule.
• Lu Xingluo tried to talk to Li Yi before filming, but he left after saying he was going for a run; she then asked Lu Junjia to support her livestream with extra accounts.
• Li Yi arrived first at the nursing home, helped distribute breakfast, and ate with the residents as the cameras and livestream viewers watched.
• Su Xia introduced himself to Li Yi and joined him for breakfast, and Li Yi helped him secretly sample several foods despite his manager’s restrictions.
• Qiao Qianqian and Cheng Qing arrived, admired the nursing home breakfast, and heard Li Yi offer to get them some.

Li Yi impressed the variety-show cast with his Gaokao results, then awkwardly reunited with Lu Xingluo, who tried to conceal their history on the livestream. He later explained that he had grown up in the orphanage across from the nursing home and used to visit it as a child.

• Li Yi told Cheng Qing and the others that he had applied to Beiqing University, and the cast praised his academic achievement.
• Lu Xingluo arrived late and was startled to find Li Yi at breakfast with the others.
• When asked whether they knew each other, Li Yi said they should act as if they did not, and Lu Xingluo claimed they barely knew each other.
• Li Yi led the others to rinse their mouths after breakfast, leaving Lu Xingluo alone at the table.
• Su Xia asked whether Li Yi knew the nursing home, and Li Yi said he had grown up in the orphanage across the street and often visited as a child.

Li Yi discovered that Shi Yan had joined the charity show at the nursing home and suspected he had another reason for being there. Shi Yan watched Li Yi prepare for a performance with Grandpa Wang Song while recalling a recurring dream about a child he had never met.

• The guests gathered for filming, and Li Yi recognized Shi Yan as his summer-job boss.
• Director Sen explained that the nursing home and the nearby orphanage belonged to the same anonymous benefactor, then announced a performance contest with a 500,000 cash donation as the prize.
• Li Yi questioned Shi Yan’s claim that he had come for charity work, and Shi Yan noticed how differently Li Yi spoke to him off the clock.
• Li Yi agreed to perform a guqin and flute duet with Grandpa Wang Song, while Shi Yan watched and thought Li Yi’s protectiveness had brought him to the right place.
• Shi Yan remembered a recurring dream about a little boy who cared for him when they were children, disappeared in the rain, and whom Shi Yan could not recall ever meeting.

The nursing-home guests performed for the elders, with Shi Yan and old Mr. Pei Ling presenting magic tricks while Shi Yan gave Li Yi a lollipop. Lu Xingluo finished with a Chinese painting performance that drew less applause than she expected.

• Cheng Qing and an elderly man sang Zheng Zhihua's "Sailor" together and warmed up the courtyard.
• Shi Yan performed a coin trick that ended with an orange lollipop, then handed it to Li Yi.
• Old Mr. Pei Ling made juice appear to vanish from a bottle while drinking through a straw held just short of it.
• Su Xia performed with an elderly fan who sang his song while he danced.
• Lu Xingluo struggled to find a willing partner, so she painted a lotus alone and received less applause than she had expected.

Lu Xingluo tried to claim the attention and offers surrounding a painting, but viewers recognized Grandma Wang Lin as renowned Chinese painting master Professor Wang Lin and wanted to buy her work instead. Professor Wang Lin refused to sell her painting, saying she only gave her paintings away.

• Lu Xingluo chose Grandma Wang Lin as her painting partner, and Wang Lin painted lifelike lotuses in black ink to thunderous applause.
• Livestream viewers recognized Wang Lin as a celebrated Chinese painting master and flooded the production team with offers for her painting.
• Director Sen mistakenly thought viewers wanted Lu Xingluo's painting, so Lu Xingluo presented it and offered to donate the supposed seven-figure proceeds to charity.
• Viewers clarified that they wanted Professor Wang Lin's painting, and Director Sen apologized to her and asked whether she would sell it for charity.
• Lu Xingluo questioned why an elderly woman from a nursing home could command such a price, and Director Sun explained Wang Lin's reputation.
• Professor Wang Lin declined to sell her painting, saying she only gave her paintings away.

Wang Lin’s painting sold for two million yuan for charity, while Lu Xingluo’s painting fetched only one thousand, leaving Lu furious and embarrassed. Qiao Qianqian then performed a Xinjiang dance with Zhang Jin, whose identity as Beicheng’s former richest man surprised the livestream viewers.

• Wang Lin arranged for the highest bidder to receive her painting, with the proceeds donated to the Nanshan Red Cross Society, and it sold for two million yuan.
• Wang Lin reassured Li Yi that the nursing home could protect its residents’ privacy, while the livestream viewers praised their close relationship.
• Lu Xingluo expected her painting to sell for a high price, but it brought in only one thousand yuan, and viewers mocked her reaction.
• Qiao Qianqian performed a Xinjiang dance with Zhang Jin, impressing the audience with his lively movements.
• Livestream viewers recognized Zhang Jin as Beicheng’s former richest man and wondered why he was staying at the nursing home.

Li Yi and Grandpa Wang Song performed a flute-and-guqin duet that drew acclaim online and made Li Yi newly famous. After Li Yi's group won the charity competition, Su Xia's remark about Li Yi and Shi Yan's closeness left them both uncertain about their relationship.

• Li Yi and Grandpa Wang Song performed a flute-and-guqin duet that earned the loudest applause of the show.
• Netizens shared the performance widely, and Li Yi gained new fans who learned about his talent and background.
• Lu Junjia tried to disparage Li Yi online and wondered whether Li Yi had helped Lu Xingluo become famous as None of Your Peace.
• The director announced that Li Yi's group had won and that their 500,000-yuan prize would be donated to orphanages.
• Shi Yan offered to wipe sweat from Li Yi's collar, and Su Xia asked whether the two were close.
• Li Yi took the wipe from Shi Yan and said he would finish wiping himself.

The guests failed to cook a meal the nursing home residents would eat, and the residents ordered takeout instead. The guests joined the feast while the production crew was left with instant noodles.

• The director assigned the guests to cook lunch for the elderly residents, and the group split up to prepare dishes despite their limited cooking skills.
• Qiao Qianqian’s tomato-and-egg dish burned, Li Yi mixed boiled ingredients into an unappetizing salad, and Shi Yan forgot to season his pumpkin soup until after cooking it.
• The elderly residents refused most of the food, though Grandma Wang Lin forced herself to eat a carrot from Li Yi’s dish and praised it.
• Grandpa Zhang Jin and the other residents ordered takeout from all eight major cuisines, along with cake and milk tea.
• The mission was declared a failure, and the guests ate with the residents while Director Sen and the production crew ate instant noodles.

Shi Yan helped Li Yi after Lu Xingluo knocked his plate down, lending him a shirt and rolling up his sleeve. Back in the cafeteria, the guests headed to the activity room, where Director Sen explained an animal-themed Radish Squat game and Su Xia settled on a nickname.

• Lu Xingluo bumped into Li Yi and knocked his plate to the floor, but Shi Yan challenged her explanation and defended Li Yi.
• Shi Yan noticed soup had stained Li Yi’s shirt and offered him a clean one from his car; Li Yi changed in the restroom and wore Shi Yan’s shirt.
• Shi Yan rolled up Li Yi’s loose sleeve, while Su Xia watched from a stall and privately concluded that Shi Yan treated Li Yi differently.
• Qiao Qianqian and Cheng Qing teased Li Yi about wearing an oversized shirt as everyone returned to the cafeteria.
• Director Sen announced an indoor Radish Squat game for six guests and six nursing-home seniors, with each player choosing a four-character nickname that included an animal.
• Su Xia said he already knew what nickname he would choose.

During a game on the charity variety show, viewers discovered a video showing Lu Xingluo trying to collide with Li Yi, prompting widespread backlash and pushing the show onto trending searches. Director Sen watched the footage and regretted allowing Lu Xingluo onto the program.

• Su Xia began the animal-nickname squat game, and Li Yi and Shi Yan repeatedly called each other before passing the turn along.
• Netizens noticed Li Yi had changed into an oversized white shirt and speculated that it belonged to Shi Yan.
• Viewers found a video showing Lu Xingluo watching Li Yi and attempting to bump into him, while Shi Yan intervened and flipped her tray.
• Netizens returned to the livestream to criticize Lu Xingluo and discuss Li Yi, Shi Yan, and the nursing home's relationship with them.
• Topics about Lu Xingluo targeting Li Yi, Li Yi's background, and his clothes with Shi Yan surged onto trending searches.
• A staff member showed Director Sen the video, and he regretted letting Lu Xingluo join the charity show.

Li Yi competed with Shi Yan during the nursing home game, then accepted a ride home to avoid Lu Xingluo's fans. As Lu Xingluo's family demanded that he take the blame for her online scandal, Li Yi recorded their confrontation.

• Lu Xingluo's manager worried that the video of Lu Xingluo targeting Li Yi was worsening her public image and could not be removed online.
• Li Yi and Shi Yan competed in the code-name game until the director stepped in, and Grandpa Pei Ling volunteered to be eliminated so Li Yi and Shi Yan won.
• After the day's activities, Shi Yan offered Li Yi a ride home because viewers might recognize him, and Li Yi agreed.
• At the Lu family home, Lu Xingluo blamed Li Yi for her scandal, while Lu Junjia suggested he had set her up and Qiao Xinyue promised to make him comply.
• Qiao Xinyue summoned Li Yi and accused him of causing Lu Xingluo's online backlash, while Lu Junjia urged him to admit that he had framed her; Li Yi secretly started recording.

Li Yi refused to take the blame for Lu Xingluo’s online scandal, while the Lu family dismissed his concerns and threatened to disown him. The chapter left Lu Junjia intrigued by Shi Yan’s interest in Li Yi and revealed Shi Yan’s bitter visits to his paralyzed father, Zhao Shengqi.

• Li Yi pretended not to know about the video as Lu Xingluo and her parents offered him money and entertainment work to confess to staging it.
• Li Yi challenged the Lu family over the risks of accepting blame, then said he would give them an answer the next morning.
• After Li Yi left, Lu Xingluo, Qiao Xinyue, and Lu Hongshen assumed he was frightened, while Qiao Xinyue wondered whether Shi Yan was close to him.
• Lu Xingluo suggested Shi Yan might prefer Lu Junjia, prompting Lu Junjia to consider trying to attract Shi Yan’s attention.
• Li Yi checked his finances, then edited the recording he had made into several clips.
• Shi Yan returned to the Shi family home and visited his paralyzed father, Zhao Shengqi, whose marriage to Shi Ning had begun across a sharp divide in their backgrounds.

Shi Yan recounted how Zhao Shengqi and Su Yue had destroyed his family and how he had taken revenge on them after a dream revealed their crimes. He left Zhao Shengqi alive and helpless, hinting that he was close to finding the boy from his dreams.

• Zhao Shengqi manipulated Shi Ning into abandoning her ambitions, and she died by suicide when Shi Yan was nine.
• Su Yue joined the family and cared for Shi Yan, but a dream warning him that she would abandon him made him wary of her.
• At seventeen, Shi Yan dreamed Zhao Shengqi would ruin the Shi family and investigated, discovering that Su Yue had been Zhao Shengqi's longtime accomplice and that they had poisoned Shi Ning and his grandfather.
• Shi Yan secretly made plans, then left Zhao Shengqi paralyzed and tortured Su Yue in front of him, keeping them alive as his revenge.
• Shi Yan visited Zhao Shengqi, taunted him about finding the boy from his dreams, and summoned a caregiver when Zhao Shengqi began choking.

Li Yi left the Lu family after refusing to falsely confess, and he set up a series of household pranks before going. He told Mrs. Su a tearful account of being thrown out, while the Lu family discovered the damage he had done.

• Li Yi cut up Qiao Xinyue’s flowers, ruined household items, stole the car keys, and left the Lu family with a message for them.
• Li Yi told Mrs. Su that the Lu family had thrown him out for refusing to falsely admit he had framed Lu Xingluo.
• Mrs. Su spread Li Yi’s account through neighborhood gossip groups, claiming the Lu family mistreated their biological son.
• The Lu family learned from the butler that Li Yi had left and refused to admit fault online.
• Qiao Xinyue, Lu Hongshen, and Lu Junjia discovered that the household appliances and internet were unusable.

Li Yi’s retaliation devastated the Lu family’s possessions, and Lu Hongshen failed to have him removed from the show because Huanxing Group funded it. At work, Lu Hongshen learned that key business deals had collapsed and then fainted.

• Servants reported that Li Yi had ruined Lu Xingluo’s clothes, Qiao Xinyue’s flowers, Lu Hongshen’s wine, and Lu Junjia’s shoes.
• Qiao Xinyue urged Lu Hongshen to invest in One Hundred Percent Love to get Li Yi replaced, but Director Sen refused and warned that Lu Xingluo could be fired for targeting others.
• Lu Hongshen discovered the show was funded by Huanxing Group and ordered Lu Xingluo to handle her entertainment-industry troubles herself.
• Lu Hongshen could not find his car keys, so he called a driver and arrived late at the office.
• Lu Hongshen’s secretary told him Zhang Group had canceled its partnership and Pei Corporation would not sell the land, and Lu Hongshen fainted as she called emergency services.

Li Yi and the other guests gathered for breakfast before South Mountain Nursing Home’s twenty-kilometer marathon, while Lu Xingluo tried to draw attention with an impractical outfit. The chapter left the guests about to begin the race, with Lu Xingluo changing after staff warned her about the live comments.

• Li Yi warned the guests not to overeat before the marathon, but Su Xia, Qiao Qianqian, and Cheng Qing still ate their fill.
• Li Yi brought Shi Yan freshly made soy milk, and Shi Yan smugly showed off the gesture while Lu Xingluo watched.
• Director Sen announced the twenty-kilometer course and said that more than eighty percent of the nursing home’s seniors usually finished it, prompting the guests to vow to compete.
• Lu Xingluo wore a miniskirt and high heels to stand out, but Director Sen sent staff to warn her that viewers were criticizing her outfit.
• Lu Xingluo went to her van to change after the staff member explained that the production team would not force her but the live comments were getting nasty.

Lu Xingluo’s return left Qiao Qianqian looking better by comparison, while the marathon began as Li Yi and the others discovered food stalls along the route. Li Yi and Shi Yan shared teasing moments at the refreshment stations as the group continued toward the next spread.

• Lu Xingluo returned in sportswear, and Qiao Qianqian’s easygoing appearance won over viewers by comparison.
• Director Sen started the nursing home marathon, and Li Yi ran alongside the seniors while Shi Yan tried to learn what he was hiding.
• Grandpa Pei Ling explained the beverage magic trick, and Li Yi hinted that the runners would soon reach a special refreshment station.
• At the two-kilometer station, Li Yi, Qiao Qianqian, Su Xia, and Shi Yan stopped to eat from stalls serving snacks and meals.
• At the next station, Li Yi ate spicy crayfish with Grandpa Zhang Jin and Grandma Wang Lin, then fed Shi Yan a crayfish tail.
• Shi Yan asked for another crayfish, and Li Yi gave him a garlic-flavored one.

Li Yi and Shi Yan teased Lu Xingluo at a dessert stall, while Li Yi revealed a story about supporting his older sister through a Weibo account. Lu Xingluo recognized the account as the devoted fan she had once replied to and was stunned to realize it might have belonged to Li Yi.

• Li Yi and Shi Yan ran into Lu Xingluo livestreaming at a dessert stall and mocked her for complaining about them being there.
• Li Yi and Shi Yan fed each other cake as Lu Xingluo’s livestream viewers reacted to their exchange.
• Li Yi told Shi Yan that he had once bought a cake for his older sister, but it had ended up in the trash.
• Li Yi explained that he later created a Weibo account for his sister and was thrilled when she replied to his post.
• Lu Xingluo remembered the loyal fan account she had replied to and wondered in shock whether Li Yi had been its owner.

Li Yi made Lu Xingluo fear that he might be the hacker None of Your Peace, then told Shi Yan about his childhood and the circumstances of his disappearance. Shi Yan recognized Li Yi as the lost child from his dreams, Junjun, and realized the Lu family had misled him about Lu Junjia.

• Li Yi’s story about secretly buying Lu Xingluo a birthday cake and registering her Weibo account made her suspect he had once helped build her reputation and might now be preparing to ruin her.
• Li Yi left the dessert stall with Shi Yan while Lu Xingluo stayed behind, frightened, and viewers reacted differently to his story in the two livestreams.
• Shi Yan asked Li Yi about his childhood, and Li Yi recalled getting lost after falling ill in the rain with scraped knees and a broken umbrella beside him.
• Shi Yan connected Li Yi’s memories and the mole beneath his mouth to the child from his dreams, who had called himself Junjun.
• Shi Yan recalled that the Lu family had claimed Lu Junjia once had the same mole, but now believed they had deceived him and that Li Yi was the child he had searched for.