Recaps

The Roaming Group traveled through ski resorts, coastal scenery, and a guesthouse, while Pei Tingyun and Xie Huan grew increasingly close. On a glacier hike, Xie Huan saved Pei Tingyun from cracking ice, and the two explored an ice cave hand in hand without confessing their feelings.

• The Roaming Group shared food and learned skiing, and Pei Tingyun grew jealous when Jiang Che helped Xie Huan before teaching him himself.
• Pei Tingyun arranged to change agencies and grew closer to Xie Huan during their journey, including helping him through formal dining and sharing a drive to the guesthouse.
• The group visited a frozen waterfall and a black sand beach, where Pei Tingyun praised Xie Huan and warned him away from dangerous waves.
• Pei Tingyun and Xie Huan shopped and cooked together, exchanged gifts, and celebrated Pei Tingyun’s birthday with the group.
• Pei Tingyun began calling Xie Huan “Huanhuan,” then slipped into his bed and woke wrapped around him as the livestream viewers watched.
• The group set out on a glacier hike, where Xie Huan used Mystic Arts to stop cracking ice and rescue Pei Tingyun, then calm Number Six.
• Xie Huan and Pei Tingyun explored an ice cave hand in hand while Pei Tingyun hoped for a confession, but neither of them confessed.

The Roaming Group’s journey through the North brought Pei Tingyun and Xie Huan closer, as Pei Tingyun repeatedly tried to confess while Xie Huan misunderstood his intentions. The arc left Pei Tingyun convinced his attempts to court Xie Huan were working, while Xie Huan thought he was comforting a heartbroken friend.

• After the group’s glacier visit, Xie Huan cooked for everyone, and Tang Keni blurted out that he loved him before clarifying he meant his cooking.
• The group’s enthusiasm and online support convinced the production team to make Northeast China the season’s final stop, while Pei Tingyun secretly hoped to travel there alone with Xie Huan.
• At Diamond Beach, Pei Tingyun and Xie Huan shared small moments of closeness, and Pei Tingyun realized he considered Xie Huan his future wife.
• Pei Tingyun hoped Xie Huan would propose when Fu Zheng and Jiang Che got their marriage certificate, then bought Xie Huan a wool blanket he had admired.
• After preparing a wedding feast for Fu Zheng and Jiang Che, Pei Tingyun drunkenly confessed to Xie Huan and kissed him, but Xie Huan pushed him away and questioned why he thought of him as a wife.
• Pei Tingyun misread Xie Huan’s care and jealousy as signs of affection, while Xie Huan tended to him during the cold and they shared a scarf beneath the aurora.
• Pei Tingyun recorded himself telling Xie Huan he wanted to stay with him for life, then planned to edit out Xie Huan calling him a good brother.
• During the volcano outing, Pei Tingyun stole a kiss from Xie Huan in a dark tunnel and kept finding excuses to hold him, while Xie Huan protested that he was not a girl.
• At the hot spring changing room, Xie Huan mistook Pei Tingyun’s advances for an attempt to get over a woman who had rejected him, reassured him that he was attractive, and left to avoid the crowd.

Pei Tingyun confessed his love for Xie Huan, whose growing feelings showed in the way he kept caring for him despite trying to stay guarded. The group continued their travels in Chinese Kale Country, while Pei Tingyun planned to visit a master during their upcoming Northeast China trip and intended to speak with Xie Huan that night.

• Pei Tingyun confessed that he liked Xie Huan, and Xie Huan realized his earlier affection had been a confession but avoided admitting his own feelings.
• Pei Tingyun kept pursuing Xie Huan during the group’s travels, while Xie Huan worried over him, shared his bed, and gradually became less able to resist him.
• At Windmill Village, Pei Tingyun pulled Xie Huan close for a photo, picked wildflowers for him, and kissed cream from the corner of his mouth.
• Pei Tingyun and Xie Huan completed the biscuit-transfer challenge together, and the group earned a promised set of scratch cards for their next day’s funds.
• During a river challenge and boat ride, Pei Tingyun called Xie Huan his wife and kissed him at the dock while Xie Huan let him stay close.
• Pei Tingyun read Jiang Che’s note directing him to find the master in Northeast China and resolved to visit during the upcoming trip and speak with Xie Huan that night.
• Xie Huan cooked at a Chinese restaurant while Pei Tingyun waited outside, and Xie Huan felt relieved when he found him there.

Pei Tingyun and Xie Huan grew closer during the Roaming Group’s challenges, with Pei Tingyun patiently respecting Xie Huan’s hesitation about a relationship. The group ended the stretch sharing a meal atop an observation deck, while Pei Tingyun carried Xie Huan back down and Xie Huan kissed him.

• Pei Tingyun confessed his feelings to Xie Huan, who revealed his master had forbidden him to date and warned that doing so could endanger his life.
• Pei Tingyun promised to stay by Xie Huan’s side without demanding a relationship, and they began sharing affectionate kisses and jokingly treated one another as sugar daddy and sugar baby.
• Pei Tingyun turned a subway trip into an autograph session, winning the group meals, lodging, transport, and attraction fees in exchange for stopping the signing.
• During a restaurant game, Xie Huan kissed Pei Tingyun, and Pei Tingyun later fed him through the challenges while deliberately losing rounds to keep him from being eliminated.
• Pei Tingyun respected Xie Huan’s reluctance to take their intimacy further, then remembered his company’s failure to protect him from a stalker and retched after pushing Xie Huan away.
• At the museum, Xie Huan admitted he liked Pei Tingyun, and the two bought matching cat-ear headbands before Pei Tingyun won money for a vase for Xie Huan’s wildflowers.
• Xie Huan overcame his fear of heights with Pei Tingyun’s support, and the Roaming Group ate together at the summit observation deck.
• Pei Tingyun carried Xie Huan into the descending basket and reassured him until Xie Huan kissed him.