Chapter Summaries

Xie Huan endured an excessively spicy meal to avoid losing the group’s funds, and Pei Tingyun protected him before helping him recover. At the coconut grove, Pei Tingyun spoke privately with an instructor and walked deeper into the grove with him, prompting Xie Huan to follow.

• Xie Huan stubbornly ate the painfully spicy meal while Pei Tingyun watched with concern.
• Pei Tingyun had Liuliu knock Xie Huan’s plate to the ground and challenged the director to fine the dog instead of the group.
• Xie Huan soothed Pei Tingyun, and Pei Tingyun got him milk before the crew replaced his meal.
• The Roaming Group went to the coconut grove, where the director explained that each coconut they picked could earn 100 in funds, up to ten.
• Pei Tingyun spoke at length with one instructor in a language the others could not understand, then went deeper into the grove with him while the other instructor taught the group to climb.
• Xie Huan grew uneasy and hurried after Pei Tingyun.

Pei Tingyun and Xie Huan outsmarted the director to sell a cartload of coconuts for 1,500 yuan, then their friends reassured Pei Tingyun that they would share the burden of earning travel funds. By dinner, Pei Tingyun felt more at ease as Xie Huan prepared a beach barbecue and planned Northeastern dishes.

• Pei Tingyun used a bamboo pole and Xie Huan’s coconut-picking work to meet the director’s coconut challenge without climbing trees.
• Pei Tingyun negotiated the cartload of coconuts up to 1,500 yuan while Xie Huan cut one open and handed it to him to drink.
• The Roaming Group’s funds rose from 20,200 yuan to 21,700 yuan, and Pei Tingyun worried about saving enough before their trip to Cauliflower Country.
• Xie Huan, Tang Keni, Gu Lin, and Yao Xuan told Pei Tingyun they would share the effort, then jokingly threw cushions at Xie Huan.
• At the villa’s beach barbecue, Xie Huan grilled skewers and directed the others to build a brick stove for Northeastern dishes.

Xie Huan and Pei Tingyun took on the director’s challenge to collect ingredients at a market on the sea, with Gu Lin carrying their basket. As they hurried across a swaying floating bridge with a plush toy held between their faces, their faces pressed together.

• Xie Huan insisted on cooking for Pei Tingyun, who offered to help wash the vegetables.
• The director announced a challenge in which two people had to hold a plush toy between their faces while collecting ingredients at the sea market.
• Xie Huan agreed to compete after learning the ingredients could be exchanged for funds, and Pei Tingyun volunteered to join him.
• The director assigned Gu Lin to carry their basket in exchange for doubling their redeemable funds.
• Xie Huan and Pei Tingyun raced across the floating bridge, and the toy shifted until their faces pressed together.

Xie Huan, Pei Tingyun, and Gu Lin completed the floating-market challenge and earned 3,000 yuan for the Roaming Group. After the director refused to round their funds up to 30,000 yuan outright, Xie Huan sent Yao Xuan and Tang Keni to drag him toward the sea.

• Pei Tingyun and Xie Huan held each other close to keep the plush toy in place as they crossed the floating bridge and gathered ingredients, while Gu Lin caught everything they tossed into the basket.
• The group hurried back before time ran out, returning with a full basket and only two bunches of cilantro lost along the way.
• Xie Huan and Pei Tingyun laughed about their stiff necks, and Xie Huan briefly clutched his stomach before reassuring Pei Tingyun that he was fine.
• The director valued the ingredients at 1,500 yuan, which doubled to 3,000 yuan thanks to Gu Lin; the Roaming Group's funds reached 24,700 yuan.
• The director rounded the total to 25,000 yuan but made a possible increase to 30,000 depend on their performance, so Xie Huan ordered Yao Xuan and Tang Keni to drag him toward the sea.

Xie Huan cooked a barbecue feast for the production crew in exchange for a higher budget, while Pei Tingyun watched over him and grew increasingly possessive. After the meal, Pei Tingyun discovered Xie Huan had a fever and anxiously searched for a thermometer.

• The director agreed to raise the next stop's budget to thirty-five thousand if Xie Huan cooked for the entire crew, and Xie Huan accepted.
• Xie Huan cooked all the ingredients for forty or fifty people while Pei Tingyun helped care for him and wiped his sweat.
• When Tang Keni offered to bring Xie Huan a clean tank top, Pei Tingyun took Xie Huan away to change and told the camera operator not to follow.
• Xie Huan refused to eat after cooking and later wore Pei Tingyun's jacket, saying he felt cold.
• Pei Tingyun checked Xie Huan's forehead, realized he had a fever, and hurried to find a thermometer.

Pei Tingyun discovered that Xie Huan had a fever and cared for him while a doctor diagnosed acute gastroenteritis. After negotiating compensation from the director, Pei Tingyun prepared to cool Xie Huan down, embarrassed by the doctor's instructions.

• Pei Tingyun measured Xie Huan's temperature at 38.5°C and brought a doctor to examine him.
• The doctor suspected acute gastroenteritis from spicy food, prescribed medicine, and explained how to cool Xie Huan with a damp towel.
• Pei Tingyun demanded fifty thousand in compensation from the director, and Xie Huan pretended to be in pain until the director agreed.
• Xie Huan admitted he had been pretending, took his medicine, and asked to shower, but Pei Tingyun refused.
• Pei Tingyun reassured Xie Huan that he did not think he was filthy and blushed at the thought of cooling him down.

Pei Tingyun cared for Xie Huan through a feverish night, and Xie Huan woke up recovered while Pei Tingyun was exhausted. After Xie Huan doted on him at breakfast, Pei Tingyun returned to his room but found he could no longer fall asleep.

• Pei Tingyun cooled Xie Huan with a towel and respected his request not to wipe his lower body while he was awake.
• Pei Tingyun repeatedly checked Xie Huan’s temperature and wiped his neck and armpits through the night until his fever finally broke.
• Yao Xuan used his immunity token to excuse Pei Tingyun from the morning segment so he could rest.
• Xie Huan gave the drowsy Pei Tingyun a bowl of food and poked his cheek, prompting affectionate reactions from the group and livestream viewers.
• Pei Tingyun returned to his room to sleep, but after tossing and turning, he sat up wide awake.

Pei Tingyun rushed to the high-altitude suspension bridge after learning Xie Huan was there, and comforted him when he found him frozen with fear. Xie Huan asked Pei Tingyun to help him cross the bridge, and Pei Tingyun fell silent as he remembered Xie Huan’s earlier determination to try rafting.

• Pei Tingyun learned the Roaming Group was trying out a suspension bridge and hurried there by bicycle.
• Pei Tingyun ran across the swaying bridge, alarming Gu Lin, Tang Keni, Yao Xuan, the husky, and the production crew.
• Pei Tingyun found Xie Huan clinging to the railing and soothed him until he opened his eyes.
• Xie Huan asked Pei Tingyun to take him across the bridge because he wanted to try it despite his fear.
• Pei Tingyun remembered Xie Huan’s insistence on going rafting and fell silent.

Xie Huan helped the sleepy Pei Tingyun across a suspension bridge, then carried him to the observation deck. There, the director introduced a speech challenge tied to the group’s funding, and Xie Huan asked how the sleeping Pei Tingyun would take part.

• Pei Tingyun carefully guided Xie Huan across the swaying bridge while reassuring him.
• After Xie Huan noticed Pei Tingyun’s exhaustion, he carried him toward the observation deck, where Pei Tingyun fell asleep.
• The director announced that the group had to include repeated words in every sentence to earn funding, with penalties for anyone who failed.
• Xie Huan, Tang Keni, Yao Xuan, and Gu Lin each demonstrated their own ways of repeating words.
• The director said everyone had to use the group’s individual definitions of repetition, and Xie Huan asked how Pei Tingyun could participate while asleep.

Xie Huan carried the sleeping Pei Tingyun through lunch without waking him, while the others struggled with their speech challenges. When Pei Tingyun finally woke, he found everyone acting strangely and wondered whether he had entered a parallel world.

• The director introduced new speech rules, and Gu Lin, Yao Xuan, Tang Keni, and Xie Huan each followed their assigned challenge.
• Xie Huan smoothly swung Pei Tingyun from his back into a bridal carry, keeping him asleep while everyone ordered lunch.
• Tang Keni ordered tomato-and-egg stir-fry, Yao Xuan chose braised pork, Gu Lin ordered sweet-and-sour pork ribs, and Xie Huan picked dishes for himself and Pei Tingyun.
• Xie Huan gently woke Pei Tingyun when the food arrived, but Pei Tingyun jumped off his lap after realizing how he had been carried.
• Pei Tingyun noticed the others speaking or behaving strangely and suspected he had woken in a parallel world, while Xie Huan remembered to repeat his catchphrase.

Pei Tingyun accidentally called Xie Huan “Daddy” while trying to avoid repeating words, then used Xie Huan’s illness from the previous night to persuade the director to let them skip a punishing mascot race. The other guests forfeited too, and Pei Tingyun ended up with a private, air-conditioned room but still could not sleep.

• Pei Tingyun tried to avoid cute-sounding repeated words and accidentally called Xie Huan “Daddy,” then desperately explained himself as the others laughed.
• The director announced a mascot-costume race in the heat to decide who could rest in the air-conditioned room, while Tang Keni and Yao Xuan kept repeating words out of habit.
• Gu Lin and Number Six opted out, and Yao Xuan and Tang Keni chose hammocks instead of competing.
• Pei Tingyun stopped Xie Huan from putting on the mascot costume and hinted at what had happened the previous night, prompting the director to let them stay.
• The director gave Pei Tingyun and Xie Huan separate guest rooms, but Pei Tingyun still could not fall asleep.

Pei Tingyun discovered he could only fall asleep when Xie Huan was nearby, so he asked the others to move their card game back beside his hammock. After a peaceful nap, he woke to find Xie Huan and the others covered in paper strips.

• Pei Tingyun and Xie Huan came out of their separate rooms at the same time because neither could sleep, then headed together to the hammock area.
• Xie Huan put Pei Tingyun in a hammock and joined Gu Lin, Yao Xuan, and Tang Keni for a card game, but Pei Tingyun could not sleep after Xie Huan moved away.
• Pei Tingyun moved to a hammock closer to Xie Huan, and Xie Huan stopped Gu Lin from shouting when he noticed Pei Tingyun sleeping nearby.
• Xie Huan and the others tried to move their game away, but Pei Tingyun called them back and said he liked listening to them play cards.
• Pei Tingyun fell asleep beside the card game and woke half an hour later to find Xie Huan and the others covered in paper strips.

The Roaming Group played a relay guessing game to earn funds, with Xie Huan and Pei Tingyun sharing a flirtatious moment over the first prompt. The game continued with increasingly confusing guesses, and the director finally told Xie Huan and Pei Tingyun to stop interrupting and sit down to guess.

• The director explained that the group could earn 1,000 in funds for each correct answer, and Number Six drew the first prompt, V-lines.
• Xie Huan acted out V-lines by lifting his shirt, and Pei Tingyun guessed correctly after first mistaking the prompt for abs and physical cooling.
• Pei Tingyun acted out making a dish, and Tang Keni eventually guessed pre-made food after Xie Huan reminded him of Pei Tingyun's braised lion's head meatballs.
• Tang Keni acted while Yao Xuan guessed, prompting Pei Tingyun and Xie Huan to call out guesses about the director and a whistle.
• The director snapped at Xie Huan and Pei Tingyun for interrupting and told them to sit aside and do the guessing.

The Roaming Group continued their charades game, earning money as the director made the prompts harder by requiring guesses from a swinging hammock. Xie Huan and Pei Tingyun’s intimate acting helped them guess two prompts, and the chapter left Gu Lin trying to interpret Pei Tingyun’s next performance.

• Yao Xuan acted out Xie Huan’s fear of heights, and the Roaming Group correctly guessed the prompt.
• The director raised the stakes, offering 1,500 for each correct answer while the guesser lay in a hammock.
• When Xie Huan refused to guess from the hammock, Pei Tingyun took his place and guessed slaughtering a pig after Xie Huan straddled him to act it out.
• The director made Xie Huan and Pei Tingyun guess another prompt together, and Pei Tingyun identified putting makeup on each other from Xie Huan’s gestures.
• Pei Tingyun acted out scissors, cloth, and hammer for Gu Lin, who guessed rock, paper, scissors, before Xie Huan covered Pei Tingyun’s eyes from behind.

Pei Tingyun and Xie Huan shared an intimate moment during a game, then the Roaming Group earned more funds and prepared for a pool challenge. As they entered the water, Pei Tingyun checked Xie Huan for a fever, and Xie Huan reassured him that he felt fine.

• Pei Tingyun impulsively wiped sweat from Xie Huan's Adam's apple, leaving them and the others frozen.
• The director counted the Roaming Group's remaining guessing prompts as correct, bringing their funds to 77,500 yuan.
• The director explained that each group had to collect balloons from the pool while tied together and hugging, then pop them with designated body parts within one minute.
• Pei Tingyun worried that Xie Huan's recent fever and gastroenteritis might worsen in the water.
• Pei Tingyun pressed his forehead to Xie Huan's to check his temperature, but Xie Huan said he felt fine and Pei Tingyun refused to take his word for it.

Pei Tingyun and Xie Huan prepared to collect balloons together, with Xie Huan’s Mystic Arts guiding their choices and their short connecting rope forcing them close. After a playful mishap in the pool, they began the game hugging face-to-face, and Pei Tingyun wondered why his heart was beating so fast.

• Pei Tingyun got the doctor’s permission and returned to find Gu Lin struggling to collect balloons while tied to an exuberant husky.
• Xie Huan used Mystic Arts to direct Tang Keni and Yao Xuan toward balloons with large numbers, while Pei Tingyun felt reassured that Xie Huan’s special nicknames included him.
• Xie Huan secured the short elastic rope around Pei Tingyun and himself, and their close contact made Pei Tingyun’s ears turn red.
• Pei Tingyun shook his wet hair into Xie Huan’s face, apologized, and offered to let Xie Huan poke him with his stiff hair in return.
• Xie Huan noticed Pei Tingyun’s red ears and blamed the sun, while Pei Tingyun privately hoped to keep using that excuse.
• The director started the game, and Xie Huan and Pei Tingyun hugged face-to-face in the water as Pei Tingyun felt his heartbeat quicken.

Pei Tingyun and Xie Huan worked in close coordination to collect the balloons containing money, then shared an intimate moment that left Pei Tingyun flustered. After the couples learned they had to pop balloons with a drawn body part, Xie Huan drew a prompt, but the chapter ended before it was revealed.

• Xie Huan guided Pei Tingyun around the pool as they quickly scooped up the money-bearing balloons together.
• Xie Huan led Pei Tingyun into the shade, and Pei Tingyun shielded Xie Huan's sunburned neck from the sun.
• Xie Huan accidentally bumped Pei Tingyun's chin with his prickly hair, then offered to make him something nice to eat as an apology.
• The director explained that each couple had to pop balloons using a body part drawn from a box, and Tang Keni and Yao Xuan drew forehead.
• Xie Huan drew the body-part prompt for his team, but its result was not revealed.

Pei Tingyun and Xie Huan struggled to pop a balloon with their faces while Gu Lin and Tang Keni interfered. The balloon vanished at the crucial moment, and Pei Tingyun caught Xie Huan in his arms, leaving them with a cheek brush instead of the kiss the livestream viewers hoped for.

• Pei Tingyun and Xie Huan failed to pop the balloon with their noses, so the director had Gu Lin draw a new body part: the upper chin.
• Gu Lin held the balloon while Tang Keni coached Pei Tingyun and Xie Huan, but Gu Lin raised his arm and made their noses collide.
• Tang Keni told Pei Tingyun and Xie Huan to tilt their heads in opposite directions, then moved to a spot where their attempt looked like a kiss.
• Gu Lin shook the balloon as the husky tugged his trouser leg, and the balloon disappeared just as Xie Huan leaned toward it.
• Xie Huan lost his footing and fell forward; Pei Tingyun caught him, and the corner of his lips brushed Xie Huan's cheek.
• Pei Tingyun asked Xie Huan if he was okay.

Xie Huan and Pei Tingyun accidentally bumped noses while popping balloons, prompting the livestream audience to mistake their movements for a kiss as romantic tension grew between them. After the group challenged the director over their meager game funds, he postponed their bonfire banquet and announced an important guest would arrive the next day, hinting that the guest might know Xie Huan.

• Xie Huan and Pei Tingyun teamed up to pop balloons, and their synchronized movements made Yao Xuan, Tang Keni, and Gu Lin watch with amused interest.
• Xie Huan tipped forward while reaching for the last balloon, and he and Pei Tingyun bumped noses before a cameraman captured them turning away as if kissing.
• The Roaming Group discovered their balloon slips amounted to only two thousand yuan, and Tang Keni, Yao Xuan, Pei Tingyun, Xie Huan, and Gu Lin pressed the director about the production budget.
• The director promised there would be more money in a later game, satisfying the group.
• At dinner, the director postponed the promised bonfire banquet until the next night because an important guest was coming, then gave Xie Huan a meaningful look.

The director searched Xie Huan’s room for the twenty thousand yuan he believed Xie Huan had hidden, but Xie Huan revealed he had only been joking. Pei Tingyun’s possessiveness toward Xie Huan grew harder to deny as the group prepared gifts for a mysterious guest, and the chapter ended with the director taking a call from President Gu.

• The director searched Xie Huan’s belongings for the twenty thousand yuan, but found nothing, and Xie Huan claimed he had only been teasing his friend Da Ting.
• Pei Tingyun chased the director away and tried to throw out the clothes he had handled, but Xie Huan stopped him; Pei Tingyun realized his possessiveness toward Xie Huan was undermining his straight-guy resolve.
• The next morning, the Roaming Group received 200 yuan each to buy welcome gifts for the secret guest, and Pei Tingyun and Xie Huan went to the floating market.
• Xie Huan bought a seashell wind chime and told Pei Tingyun he thought Pei Tingyun would like it, leaving Pei Tingyun flustered.
• The director took a call and ended it by saying, “All right, President Gu. See you tonight.”