Chapter Summaries

Pei Tingyun turned the Roaming Group’s subway journey into a fan meet, then used the crowd to bargain for the production team to cover their day’s expenses. After the signing ended, Xie Huan warmed Pei Tingyun’s cramped hand as they rode away.

• Pei Tingyun led the Roaming Group to a subway station and waited until fans gathered before setting up an autograph session.
• Pei Tingyun signed autographs and kept Xie Huan beside him, while Tang Keni, Gu Lin, and Yao Xuan helped manage the growing line.
• The fan meet expanded as viewers arrived, and fans collected autographs from the group and paw prints from their husky.
• Pei Tingyun negotiated with the director, agreeing to stop signing in exchange for meals, accommodation, a chartered vehicle, and attraction fees.
• Pei Tingyun arranged gifts for fans who missed the autographs, then left with the group as Xie Huan warmed his cramped hand.

The Roaming Group checked fan-provided food after Xie Huan divined that several items were unsafe, including a third of Pei Tingyun’s snacks. They reached their destination and learned they would have to complete a challenge to stay at the guesthouse instead of tents, while Xie Huan stepped between Pei Tingyun and Tang Keni.

• Pei Tingyun warned Tang Keni not to eat food from fans, and Yao Xuan explained that strangers could tamper with it.
• Xie Huan divined which snacks were safe, setting aside several items from Tang Keni’s pile and discovering that a third of Pei Tingyun’s food was unsafe.
• Pei Tingyun trusted Xie Huan enough to eat a bread roll without checking it, and the two exchanged affectionate teasing.
• The Roaming Group arrived at accommodations that included a guesthouse and tents, with their lodging depending on whether they completed the director’s challenge.
• Pei Tingyun asked to inspect the guesthouse before deciding what to do, and Xie Huan moved between him and Tang Keni as they walked there.

The Roaming Group secured the guesthouse by taking the director’s key card, then joined a restaurant meal that the director turned into a guessing game. When Tang Keni tried to make Pei Tingyun kiss Xie Huan, Xie Huan kissed Pei Tingyun instead, and Pei Tingyun kissed him back until he was breathless.

• Pei Tingyun kept Xie Huan from getting too close to Tang Keni, and Xie Huan avoided revealing Pei Tingyun’s aversion to touch.
• Pei Tingyun toured the guesthouse while Xie Huan stayed behind and took the key card, letting their group claim the lodging without completing the challenge.
• Tang Keni pushed Xie Huan onto the sofa, where Pei Tingyun caught him, then demanded lunch from the director.
• The director took the group to a recommended restaurant and made them play a game in which they had to trick one another into performing the actions written on slips above their heads.
• Tang Keni tried to get Pei Tingyun to kiss Xie Huan, but Xie Huan kissed Pei Tingyun first, and Pei Tingyun pulled him into an enthusiastic kiss that continued after his elimination.

Xie Huan and Pei Tingyun were eliminated during the meal game, but Pei Tingyun kept trying to make sure his hungry wife ate. After the group changed tactics to stay quiet, the director changed the slips to actions, eliminating Pei Tingyun again before he had eaten much.

• Xie Huan and Pei Tingyun were eliminated after hugging and kissing, and Pei Tingyun tried to soothe Xie Huan, who was upset that he had not eaten.
• Tang Keni was eliminated after telling Yao Xuan to get lost, leaving Yao Xuan and Gu Lin to eat while the others secretly stole pasta.
• The director caught Pei Tingyun, Xie Huan, and Tang Keni sneaking food and had the staff remove their plates.
• Xie Huan was eliminated again for saying "Oh man," and Pei Tingyun gave him his own portion before asking to be eliminated too.
• The group stayed silent through the second dish, but the director replaced their slips with actions, and Pei Tingyun was eliminated as soon as he raised a hand.

Xie Huan secretly fed Pei Tingyun during the lunch game, and Pei Tingyun kept him safe so he could eat. At a flower park, Pei Tingyun took couple photos with Xie Huan, then joked that their relationship was not innocent, leaving the others to misunderstand their meaning.

• Xie Huan tricked the director and fed Pei Tingyun a mouthful of food, and Pei Tingyun secretly ate it while pretending nothing had happened.
• Pei Tingyun deliberately lost each round to keep Xie Huan from being eliminated, and Xie Huan fed him until he was full.
• Tang Keni chose an expensive flower park, where Pei Tingyun kept holding Xie Huan's hand and taking pictures of him.
• Xie Huan joined Pei Tingyun in the photos, and Pei Tingyun turned them into professional-looking couple pictures.
• Tang Keni compared the photos to wedding pictures, and Pei Tingyun and Xie Huan denied it while misunderstanding their own words differently from everyone else.

The Roaming Group faced a timed, blindfolded supermarket challenge to gather ingredients for Xie Huan to cook. Xie Huan and Pei Tingyun started shopping hand in hand, while Yao Xuan paired up with Tang Keni, and the chapter ended as the ingredient hunt began.

• The director made the group shop for groceries under a ten-minute limit, requiring one person in each pair to collect ingredients blindfolded and Xie Huan to use everything they bought.
• Xie Huan volunteered to wear the blindfold, but the director assigned Pei Tingyun to collect ingredients while Xie Huan gave directions.
• Pei Tingyun asked to hold Xie Huan's hand throughout the challenge, and Xie Huan agreed as he imagined a future spent with Pei Tingyun.
• Yao Xuan objected that he had to direct Tang Keni from afar, then took Tang Keni's hand and insisted they should walk together too.
• The timer started, and Xie Huan led Pei Tingyun to the vegetable shelves while Yao Xuan and Tang Keni headed for the meat shelves.
• Xie Huan began directing Pei Tingyun to grab a head of cabbage.

Xie Huan and Pei Tingyun struggled to collect vegetables while blindfolded, and Pei Tingyun filled their cart with potatoes before the timer ran out. At checkout, Pei Tingyun spotted a shelf of condoms and wanted to choose one, but Xie Huan pulled him away.

• Xie Huan guided Pei Tingyun through the vegetable section, where they struggled over dialect differences and Pei Tingyun kissed Xie Huan while feeling his face.
• Tang Keni and Yao Xuan collected the meat on their list while Gu Lin took the husky to the pet section and stopped it from eating by threatening to leave it behind.
• With time running out, Xie Huan hugged Pei Tingyun from behind and told him to put every vegetable he touched into the cart.
• Pei Tingyun removed his blindfold and found the cart piled with potatoes, then refused the director's request to swap them for other vegetables.
• At checkout, Pei Tingyun studied the condom boxes and tried to choose one, but Xie Huan recognized the packaging and pulled him away.

Xie Huan worried that taking his relationship with Pei Tingyun further could harm him, so Pei Tingyun gave him space by going with Gu Lin to retrieve his luggage. When Pei Tingyun returned, Xie Huan's loneliness gave way to an impulsive hug, and Pei Tingyun stayed in the kitchen after Xie Huan asked him not to leave.

• At the supermarket, Pei Tingyun considered buying intimate items, but Xie Huan stopped him because he was not ready to take that step and worried about his master's prohibition.
• Pei Tingyun noticed Xie Huan's unease and went with Gu Lin to the airport to collect Gu Lin's missing luggage.
• While Pei Tingyun was away, Xie Huan cooked dinner with Tang Keni and Yao Xuan but felt lonely.
• When Pei Tingyun returned to the guesthouse, Xie Huan rushed to hug him and burned some of the tomato-and-egg dish.
• Pei Tingyun offered to eat the unburned portion, and Xie Huan asked him to stay in the kitchen rather than leave.

Xie Huan openly asked Pei Tingyun to stay beside him while he cooked, and their sugar daddy and little star arrangement sparked a fight in the livestream comments. After Xie Huan fed the production crew and the Roaming Group, the director introduced punishment lots that would determine which expenses the group could get reimbursed for, leaving everyone uneasy after drawing.

• Xie Huan pulled Pei Tingyun close while cooking and joked that cleaning up a little star's mess was what a sugar daddy was for, prompting viewers to argue over their relationship.
• Pei Tingyun accepted the arrangement and quietly stayed beside Xie Huan as he cooked, while Xie Huan felt relaxed and wished Pei Tingyun could always be there.
• Xie Huan gave the director steamed potatoes with dipping sauce and egg sauce, and the crew praised the food.
• The Roaming Group ate Xie Huan's dishes as the livestream viewers requested his recipes and another cooking tour.
• Pei Tingyun asked the director what would happen if the group's funds fell to zero, so the director revealed punishment lots that could reimburse food, lodging, transportation, or attraction expenses.
• The five Roaming Group members drew their lots and reacted with differing expressions.

Xie Huan and Pei Tingyun traded penalty slips while the group joked and negotiated with the director over a meowing challenge. After dinner, the Roaming Group carried their suitcases upstairs to the guesthouse rooms.

• Xie Huan tried to swap slips with Pei Tingyun, but Pei refused, and Gu Lin ended up trading with Tang Keni, receiving a penalty to ride a bicycle all day.
• Yao Xuan persuaded Xie Huan to take his slip, which required adding “meow” to every sentence the next day.
• Pei Tingyun agreed to meow for a day after bargaining with the director for the group’s expenses, while the director required everyone to complete their penalties for the following day’s funds.
• Yao Xuan teased Pei Tingyun about the group matching, and Xie Huan joined him in chasing Yao around the table as the others ran after one another.
• Pei Tingyun blocked a camera when Xie Huan lifted his shirt to wipe sweat, then the Roaming Group carried their suitcases upstairs after dinner.

Pei Tingyun moved into Xie Huan’s room and flirted with him while they tended the flowers, but Xie Huan fled to shower after realizing what Pei Tingyun meant by “inspecting the goods.” Pei Tingyun brought him clothes, and Xie Huan locked the bathroom door again, still mindful of his master’s prohibition.

• Pei Tingyun gave his twin-bed room to the husky and put his nameplate over Xie Huan’s so he could share Xie Huan’s large bed.
• Xie Huan tended the wildflowers Pei Tingyun had given him and told Pei Tingyun he liked them because they were from him.
• Pei Tingyun embraced Xie Huan and teased him about inspecting the goods, then whispered that Xie Huan had not inspected a particular place yet.
• Xie Huan blushed, fled to the bathroom, and locked the door, then admitted he had forgotten to bring clothes.
• Pei Tingyun fetched Xie Huan a pair of his own pajamas and underwear, but Xie Huan took them through a narrow opening and locked the door again.

Pei Tingyun and Xie Huan teased each other over clothes, kisses, and their sugar-daddy-and-pet roles before settling into bed. Pei Tingyun’s memories of his company’s exploitation and its response to a stalker fan overwhelmed him, and he suddenly retched beside the bed.

• Xie Huan complained that Pei Tingyun had brought him no clothes, then took Pei Tingyun’s pajama top to wear.
• Pei Tingyun tried to kiss Xie Huan, but Xie Huan forbade unpermitted kisses and called himself the sugar daddy.
• Pei Tingyun declared he was willing to be Xie Huan’s puppy, and Xie Huan later lay down in his arms.
• Pei Tingyun pretended to sleep so he could steal a kiss, but Xie Huan caught him by covering his mouth.
• Xie Huan gave Pei Tingyun a kiss as a reward, but Pei Tingyun then remembered his company’s control and its failure to protect him from a stalker fan.
• Pei Tingyun pushed Xie Huan away and retched over the side of the bed.

Pei Tingyun realized that Xie Huan’s love made him feel safe, and Xie Huan comforted him through a tender night together. The next morning, Xie Huan urged Pei Tingyun to share his pain, but Pei Tingyun silenced him with a kiss.

• Pei Tingyun laughed off Xie Huan’s pregnancy joke, thanked him for loving him, and asked permission to kiss him.
• Pei Tingyun kissed Xie Huan until he fell asleep, then heard him murmur that he wanted to comfort Ting’er.
• Pei Tingyun nestled into Xie Huan’s arms, and Xie Huan held him while he slept.
• Xie Huan woke with his arm numb, noticed Pei Tingyun’s tear tracks, and resolved to help him speak up about his hurt.
• Pei Tingyun woke as Xie Huan wiped his face, promised to tell him everything, and kissed him before he could finish speaking.

Xie Huan stopped Pei Tingyun from taking their intimacy further because he feared the unknown consequences of romance, and Pei Tingyun decided he needed to find Xie Huan's master to reassure him. After the livestream began, Pei Tingyun could not ask about the matter, while the group shared breakfast and argued over their penalty tasks.

• Pei Tingyun kissed and nibbled at Xie Huan, but Xie Huan grew frightened and told him he was not ready.
• Pei Tingyun agreed to wait, then decided that finding Xie Huan's master might resolve his worries.
• Pei Tingyun considered calling Xie Huan's master, but the livestream began before he could ask Xie Huan about it.
• Xie Huan served the Roaming Group pasta with savory gravy and pickled vegetables for breakfast.
• Tang Keni completed his push-up penalty and threatened Gu Lin with a long-distance attraction, while Yao Xuan joked about insuring them.
• Pei Tingyun bargained with the director for more pocket money in exchange for meowing.

Xie Huan and Pei Tingyun traded meows during breakfast, then visited a museum with the Roaming Group. At the museum shop, Xie Huan persuaded Pei Tingyun to try on a black cat-ear headband, which suited him unexpectedly well.

• The director tricked Xie Huan into meowing, and Pei Tingyun delightedly kneaded his face and asked him to do it again.
• Xie Huan asked Pei Tingyun to meow too, and Pei Tingyun whispered his first meow into Xie Huan's ear.
• Tang Keni sprayed pasta onto Gu Lin's plate, and Yao Xuan swapped plates with Gu Lin and ate the messy meal.
• The Roaming Group visited a local museum, while Gu Lin rode a bicycle ten kilometers to catch up with them.
• Xie Huan found a black cat-ear headband at the museum shop and convinced Pei Tingyun to put it on.

Xie Huan and Pei Tingyun flirted while wearing matching cat-ear headbands, and Pei Tingyun repeatedly meowed for his wife during a museum gift-shop game. The chapter ended with Pei Tingyun declaring Xie Huan the best-looking person there.

• Xie Huan stopped Pei Tingyun from removing his cat ears and admitted that he liked Pei Tingyun.
• Pei Tingyun put a matching cat-ear headband on Xie Huan, and they bought the headbands together.
• Pei Tingyun wanted to buy a miniature vase for Xie Huan's wildflowers, so the director offered a game for extra spending money.
• Pei Tingyun answered that Xie Huan was in the museum and that wives could be found there, making the director accept his answers after objections.
• Pei Tingyun praised Xie Huan as the best-looking person in the shop and meowed at him with a beckoning-cat gesture.

Pei Tingyun won extra spending money by teasing Xie Huan during a word game, then bought the vase he wanted. The group headed toward a mountain restaurant for lunch, but Pei Tingyun stopped Xie Huan from climbing after he reluctantly set off despite fearing heights.

• Pei Tingyun’s answer about rubber sleeve protectors made Xie Huan flustered, and Pei Tingyun won the word game after Xie Huan deliberately failed to name something in a kitchen.
• Pei Tingyun used his winnings to pay for the vase, while Tang Keni discovered Yao Xuan had taken his spending money and chased him to take embarrassing photos.
• Gu Lin bought the husky a collar with a bell, and the director chose a 520-meter observation deck for the group’s check-in photo.
• Xie Huan objected to the high observation deck, but the director persuaded him to climb by saying lunch was arranged at the summit.
• Pei Tingyun followed Xie Huan up the mountain, then took his hand to stop him from climbing farther.

Xie Huan braved a swaying basket ride to the summit observation deck with Pei Tingyun supporting him, and overcame his fear enough to admire the view. The pair ended the ride teasing each other, with Xie Huan refusing Pei Tingyun’s request to grow his hair longer.

• Xie Huan insisted on going up to the summit observation deck despite Pei Tingyun worrying that he was afraid of heights.
• Xie Huan clung to Pei Tingyun as they boarded the basket, and Pei Tingyun held him close while Gu Lin and Tang Keni teased them.
• As the basket rose and swayed, Pei Tingyun reassured Xie Huan until he cautiously opened his eyes and looked at the city below.
• Pei Tingyun kissed the crown of Xie Huan’s head, then complained that his short hair prickled his lips.
• Xie Huan laughed and told Pei Tingyun not to kiss his hair if he found it prickly.

Pei Tingyun teased Xie Huan before kissing him throughout the basket ride to the viewing platform, helping him forget his fear of heights. After the group took photos and enjoyed the view, Tang Keni asked the director to bring their food up, claiming Xie Huan’s legs had gone weak.

• Pei Tingyun teased Xie Huan with a kiss, then kissed him as their basket rose to the viewing platform.
• Pei Tingyun carried Xie Huan out of the basket, and Xie Huan stayed in his arms while admiring the scenery.
• Tang Keni, Yao Xuan, and Gu Lin took a group selfie with Number Six, while Gu Lin struggled to hold the husky up for the photo.
• The director told the Roaming Group to come downstairs to eat, but Tang Keni asked him to bring their food up because Xie Huan could not move.

The Roaming Group forced the director to bring their food up to the observation deck, where they outsmarted his attempt to leave them without utensils. As Pei Tingyun carried Xie Huan down in the swaying basket, he reassured him, and Xie Huan suddenly kissed him.

• Xie Huan pretended to be too frightened to move while Tang Keni and Gu Lin pressured the director into bringing the food up himself.
• The director arrived visibly terrified, delivered the food, and hurried back down after Tang Keni taunted him.
• The group discovered the containers had no utensils, but Pei Tingyun, Tang Keni, Yao Xuan, and Gu Lin each produced chopsticks.
• Xie Huan laid his jacket on the ground for Pei Tingyun, and the group ate together on the observation deck.
• Pei Tingyun carried the nervous Xie Huan into the descending basket and reassured him before Xie Huan kissed him.