Recaps

Ye Qingzhou remembered how Chu Ci had rescued him from a lonely, abusive life and taken him to the battlefield, where he promised to care for him. After their task ended, Chu Ci recalled that Wu Zhou was the most important person in the world to him, and Ye Qingzhou struggled to hide his happiness.

• Chu Ci found Ye Qingzhou neglected and freezing in the palace, apologized for arriving late, and promised no one would bully him again.
• Ye Qingzhou worried Chu Ci would leave him, so Chu Ci offered to take him to the battlefield and care for him.
• The emperor agreed to Chu Ci taking Ye Qingzhou with him, and Ye Qingzhou was no longer alone.
• Chu Ci brought Ye Qingzhou out of his memories by telling him their task was finished.
• Chu Ci said Wu Zhou was the most important person in the world to him, and Ye Qingzhou smiled as viewers discussed their interactions.

Zhou Jin suspected that Chu Ci and Ye Qingzhou had drawn Exchange Cards rather than cards that could eliminate their opponents, and he convinced Li Muting to search for them. The pair continued looking for a chance to turn the competition around, despite the risk that his guess was wrong.

• Zhou Jin reasoned that Chu Ci and Ye Qingzhou had avoided attacking because they might have Exchange Cards, then explained his suspicion to Li Muting.
• Li Muting agreed that they needed to find Chu Ci and Ye Qingzhou before the pair finished their task.
• Zhou Jin and Li Muting searched together rather than splitting up, but found no sign of their opponents after ten minutes.
• Li Muting questioned whether Zhou Jin's guess was worth the risk, and Zhou Jin said they could afford to lose their fifty yuan if he was wrong.

Zhou Jin and Li Muting hunted down Ye Qingzhou and Chu Ci, hoping to use the Exchange Card to claim their earnings. Their surprise attack partly failed, but Li Muting managed to remove Chu Ci’s hat, leaving the outcome of the exchange unclear.

• Zhou Jin suspected that Ye Qingzhou and Chu Ci had drawn the Exchange Card and reasoned that taking their hats would let him and Li Muting claim the other pair’s money.
• Ye Qingzhou told Chu Ci that Zhou Jin might have figured out their plan, while the two walked leisurely and appeared to bait the other teams into approaching them.
• Zhou Jin and Li Muting spotted Ye Qingzhou and Chu Ci, hid along their route, and prepared to launch a surprise attack.
• Ye Qingzhou noticed Zhou Jin’s approach and dodged him, but Li Muting removed Chu Ci’s hat and celebrated her success.

Chu Ci let Zhou Jin and Li Muting take Ye Qingzhou and Chu Ci’s five hundred yuan, then used the Exchange Card again to reclaim it. The chapter revealed that Chu Ci had figured out the card’s two-use ability and deliberately lured Zhou Jin and Li Muting into taking the money, while Ye Qingzhou remained distracted by Chu Ci’s hair.

• Chu Ci said he had drawn the Exchange Card and handed Zhou Jin five hundred yuan, prompting Zhou Jin and Li Muting to run off with the money.
• Chu Ci used the Exchange Card again, and the viewers realized he and Ye Qingzhou had baited Zhou Jin and Li Muting into taking the money so they could retrieve it.
• The director had told the Skill Card staff to confirm the Exchange Card’s second use if Chu Ci and Ye Qingzhou guessed it, after Chu Ci had figured it out from the card’s name.
• Chu Ci asked Ye Qingzhou if he had figured it out too, but Ye Qingzhou, focused on Chu Ci’s hair, failed to understand the question at first.

Chu Ci used the Exchange Card’s delayed second activation to reclaim the 500 yuan Zhou Jin and Li Muting had stolen. Zhou Jin and Li Muting reached the task point first, but the director told them Ye Qingzhou and Chu Ci had won.

• Li Muting removed Chu Ci’s white hat, and Chu Ci briefly explained that he had used the Exchange Card.
• Chu Ci’s plan relied on the card’s ability to be used twice and activated later, allowing him to reclaim the stolen 500 yuan before Zhou Jin and Li Muting reached the task point.
• Zhou Jin carried the exhausted Li Muting toward the task point while Ye Qingzhou and Chu Ci stayed behind.
• Zhou Jin handed the money to the production team, and the director announced that Ye Qingzhou and Chu Ci had won because Chu Ci had used the Exchange Card again.

Zhou Jin learned that Chu Ci had used the Exchange Card twice and lost the task despite carrying Li Muting to the finish. Chu Ci and Ye Qingzhou arrived fresh and relaxed, and Ye Qingzhou returned Zhou Jin’s fifty yuan, leaving him humiliated.

• Zhou Jin asked why the production team had not told him that Chu Ci used the Exchange Card a second time, and the director explained that staff had been unable to catch him while he ran.
• The director told Zhou Jin that he and Li Muting still had fifty yuan, which had been restored after Chu Ci’s second use of the Exchange Card.
• Zhou Jin accepted his loss, drank water, and rested while Chu Ci and Ye Qingzhou arrived at the production team’s location.
• Chu Ci thanked Zhou Jin for making the trip for them, and Zhou Jin held back his anger and said it was just his rotten luck.
• Chu Ci called Zhou Jin cute, and Ye Qingzhou handed Zhou Jin the fifty yuan he and Li Muting were entitled to.
• Zhou Jin accepted the money from Ye Qingzhou and thanked him with an awkward smile.

Ye Qingzhou and Chu Ci won the episode after Zhou Jin used an Exchange Card to deliver them the money, and the cast gathered to celebrate the result. They reluctantly posed in bunny-ear headbands before filming for the first episode of Let's Fall in Love wrapped.

• Bai Zihan and Zhou Ze arrived after giving up on their tasks, and Zhou Ze asked why Ye Qingzhou and Chu Ci had won.
• Chu Ci explained that Zhou Jin had delivered the money to them, and the director described the Exchange Card.
• Zhou Ze teased Zhou Jin about losing despite all his running, and the group laughed.
• The director asked Ye Qingzhou and Chu Ci to pose as the best CP with flashing signs and bunny-ear headbands.
• Ye Qingzhou put on his headband, and Chu Ci praised how cute he looked before Ye Qingzhou asked whether he or Zhou Jin was cuter.
• Ye Qingzhou helped Chu Ci put on his headband, and the pair finished their photos before the director called a wrap.

After the episode of “Let’s Fall in Love” featuring Ye Qingzhou and Chu Ci became a viral hit, the director invited Chu Ci to return for the next episode. Chu Ci agreed after hearing Lele’s voice in his mind, and the director then called Ye Qingzhou, who perked up when he learned Chu Ci would return too.

• Viewers praised Ye Qingzhou and Chu Ci’s chemistry, and their popularity boosted the show’s and Chu Ci’s Weibo followers.
• The director asked Chu Ci to film the next episode and offered him the highest appearance fee.
• Chu Ci heard Lele, his former mecha companion, tell him to accept the invitation.
• Trusting Lele, Chu Ci agreed to return to the show.
• The director called Ye Qingzhou, who asked whether Chu Ci would also appear in the next episode and reacted excitedly when the director confirmed it.

Ye Qingzhou agreed to film the next episode of "Let's Fall in Love" on the condition that he remain paired with Chu Ci, then offered Chu Ci a ride home. As Ye Qingzhou fastened Chu Ci’s seat belt, Chu Ci noticed his dimples and remembered that Wu Zhou had the same ones.

• Ye Qingzhou accepted the director’s invitation to film the next episode, asking to stay paired with Chu Ci.
• Chu Ci learned that his soul had entered the original Chu Ci’s body and resolved to fulfill its owner’s wishes to become an excellent actor and care for his grandmother.
• Ye Qingzhou offered Chu Ci a ride, and Chu Ci accepted because he needed a way to get home.
• Ye Qingzhou leaned over to fasten Chu Ci’s seat belt, and Chu Ci noticed his long eyelashes and soft lips.
• Ye Qingzhou’s smile revealed two shallow dimples, reminding Chu Ci of how Wu Zhou only smiled around him.
• Chu Ci told Ye Qingzhou that he looked especially good when he smiled.

Chu Ci returned to the original owner's shabby home and learned why the struggling entertainer had chased attention and spent his earnings supporting his grandmother and demanding parents. Lele also revealed that it inexplicably knew many modern entertainment terms, leaving Chu Ci to wonder whether someone had programmed them into it.

• Ye Qingzhou told Chu Ci that someone he knew had once praised his smile, then exchanged contact details with him before leaving.
• Lele warned Chu Ci that Ye Qingzhou seemed familiar and more complicated than he appeared, but Chu Ci dismissed the concern.
• Chu Ci saw the original owner's rundown apartment building and learned that the original owner had used clout-chasing to get work because he needed money for medicine and his grandmother.
• Lele said that definitions of entertainment-industry terms seemed to have been programmed into it, though it did not know how.
• Chu Ci entered the clean, cozy home and learned that the original owner's parents had repeatedly pressured him for money and called him unfilial when he could not provide more.

Chu Ci returned to Grandma’s home and discovered that her eyesight had grown very poor. As she tried to care for him and offered him her savings, he felt the warmth of family love for the first time and promised to earn enough to give her a better home.

• Grandma mistook Chu Ci for Cici and tried to make him a meal despite her poor eyesight.
• Chu Ci noticed the meat in the refrigerator had spoiled and stopped Grandma from going out to buy groceries, then asked what she wanted to eat.
• Grandma asked for pork ribs and said she would like anything Chu Ci bought for her.
• Grandma gave Chu Ci her bank card and offered him the savings she had kept, including the money he had sent her.
• Chu Ci refused the money, saying it was for Grandma’s retirement, and promised to make money and move her into a beautiful house.

Chu Ci accepted 3,200 yuan from Grandma, who had saved it over several years, and resolved to take care of her as the original owner had wished. On his way to buy groceries, he received a call from Cui Xuemei demanding money and refused to send any.

• Grandma gave Chu Ci 3,200 yuan in banknotes she had carefully saved, and he accepted it after she urged him to buy something to eat.
• Chu Ci asked Lele how long Grandma had saved the money and realized she had scraped it together from her limited food budget.
• Chu Ci put the money away and remembered that the original owner had wished to become a good actor and care for Grandma.
• As Chu Ci headed toward a nearby market, Cui Xuemei called and demanded 30,000 yuan because he had appeared on the Weibo trending list.
• Chu Ci refused to send money, and Cui Xuemei accused him of being unfilial before lowering her demand to 20,000 and then 10,000 yuan.

Chu Ci agreed to give Cui Xuemei money, but insisted on bringing it to her in person. As he headed to meet her, the story recounted how Cui Xuemei had neglected him for years before seeking him out after he became famous and receiving most of his savings.

• Chu Ci agreed to give Cui Xuemei money on the condition that he deliver it to her in person.
• Cui Xuemei told her mahjong friends that Chu Ci was coming to see her and bragged about his filial generosity.
• The story recounted how Cui Xuemei and Chu Ci's father had left Chu Ci in his grandmother's care, and how his grandmother supported his education with her savings and odd jobs.
• After seeing a video of Chu Ci online, Cui Xuemei contacted him and claimed she had stayed away because she could not provide him a comfortable life.
• Chu Ci offered to support Cui Xuemei, repeatedly asked for her bank account number, and transferred her fifty thousand yuan from his savings.

Cui Xuemei repeatedly lied to Chu Ci to get money for gambling, until he caught her at a mahjong parlor after she claimed she needed surgery. She coaxed him back into forgiving her by spending her winnings on clothes, leaving Chu Ci convinced that she cared about him.

• Cui Xuemei gambled away the fifty thousand yuan Chu Ci sent her, then persuaded him to send another ten thousand yuan.
• Cui Xuemei claimed she had been in a car accident and needed twenty thousand yuan for surgery, so Chu Ci borrowed money from his company and sent it to her.
• Chu Ci searched nearby hospitals for Cui Xuemei and found her leaving a mahjong parlor unharmed after gambling with the money.
• Cui Xuemei caught Chu Ci's wrist and pleaded with him not to abandon her, then said she had won ten thousand yuan to buy him clothes.
• Chu Ci agreed to go shopping with Cui Xuemei, and she bought him many outfits, making him believe she cared about him.

Chu Ci remembered how Cui Xuemei and his father had sought him out for money after he became a celebrity, while dismissing his emotional needs. The chapter ended with Chu Ci deciding he should not have given in to Cui Xuemei’s demands.

• Chu Ci called Cui Xuemei for comfort while struggling with online abuse, but she dismissed him to keep playing mahjong.
• Chu Ci’s father contacted him for money, and Chu Ci gave him all his savings apart from what he sent his grandmother.
• Cui Xuemei berated Chu Ci for giving his father money, then argued that her bond with Chu Ci entitled her to financial support.
• Cui Xuemei visited Chu Ci’s home and demanded money, including the rent he had paid for his grandmother’s home.
• Chu Ci gave Cui Xuemei the rent money after she made herself seem pitiful.
• After reading the original owner’s memories, Chu Ci sighed that he should not have softened toward Cui Xuemei.

Chu Ci went to a mahjong parlor to find Cui Xuemei, after remembering the kindness Wu Zhou’s mother had shown him and worrying about Wu Zhou. Cui Xuemei was playing upstairs and boasting about Chu Ci’s fame when he arrived.

• Chu Ci remembered how the princess consort had comforted him when he was young and worried Wu Zhou might act recklessly if he heard Chu Ci had died.
• Lele confirmed that Cui Xuemei was at a mahjong parlor, and Chu Ci went there to find her.
• The parlor owner told Chu Ci that Cui Xuemei was in room 203 and explained how much damaged mahjong equipment might cost to replace.
• Cui Xuemei told the other players that Chu Ci was famous and trending online, while they praised him.

Cui Xuemei bragged about Chu Ci and lied to her mahjong friends about why she could not share his contact details. Chu Ci exposed her motives, gave one woman his WeChat to pass along, and then told Cui Xuemei they needed to settle accounts.

• Cui Xuemei enjoyed her mahjong friends' praise and claimed Chu Ci had inherited his good looks from her.
• When a mahjong friend asked for Chu Ci's contact details for her daughter, Cui Xuemei falsely claimed his company prohibited sharing them and could impose huge penalties.
• Chu Ci arrived and exposed Cui Xuemei's lie, saying she wanted him to marry into a powerful family and avoid the friend's daughter.
• Chu Ci gave the woman his WeChat contact and asked her to thank her daughter for being his fan.
• Cui Xuemei asked whether Chu Ci had brought her money, and he replied that they should settle some accounts.

Chu Ci confronted Cui Xuemei in front of her mahjong friends over abandoning him and demanding money after years without contact. He began recounting the money he had sent her and left the confrontation poised to continue.

• Chu Ci reminded Cui Xuemei that Grandma had raised him after she gave birth to him and left him behind.
• Chu Ci accused Cui Xuemei of never contacting or caring about him during his schooling until she learned he had become a celebrity and asked him for money.
• Cui Xuemei tried to take the argument home and claimed she wanted to share Chu Ci’s burdens, but he refused to speak privately.
• Chu Ci said he was sick and needed monthly medicine, then asked Cui Xuemei to return the money he had given her.
• Chu Ci recalled that Cui Xuemei first asked him for money in May 2020, when he transferred her fifty thousand yuan, and that she later claimed to be sick after losing it at mahjong, receiving another twenty thousand yuan.

Chu Ci confronted Cui Xuemei over her repeated lies and demands for money, then declared that he was severing ties with her. He left the money he had given her as retirement money and planned to move into a spacious house with Grandma.

• Chu Ci told Cui Xuemei and the onlookers that she had lied about being hospitalized and had asked him for money to keep playing mahjong.
• Chu Ci tallied the several hundred thousand he had sent Cui Xuemei and reminded her that she had refused to visit him when he was sick.
• Cui Xuemei defended her demands by invoking her role as his birth mother, but Chu Ci rejected her claim that buying him clothes made up for her behavior.
• Cui Xuemei tried to slap Chu Ci, but he caught her wrist and pulled the mahjong cloth from the table, scattering the tiles.
• Chu Ci told Cui Xuemei he was severing ties with her and said the money he had given her could serve as her retirement money.

Chu Ci forced Cui Xuemei to agree to sever their mother-son relationship, bluffing that he could sue her to recover the money he had sent over the years. He recorded her statement on video, leaving their separation documented and Cui Xuemei unable to easily exploit their relationship in the future.

• Cui Xuemei hesitated to accept Chu Ci's demand, but he threatened to take her to court and recover the money he had sent her.
• Cui Xuemei agreed to sever ties after Chu Ci confirmed he would sue if she refused.
• Chu Ci opened his phone's video recorder and told Cui Xuemei to state that they would go their separate ways.
• Cui Xuemei initially objected, but Chu Ci repeated his threat to recover hundreds of thousands of yuan in transfers.
• Cui Xuemei recorded a statement voluntarily severing her mother-son relationship with Chu Ci.

After cutting ties with Cui Xuemei, Chu Ci hurried back to Grandma when Lele reported she had gone looking for him. Ye Qingzhou had returned and was helping Grandma across the road, while Chu Ci began reflecting on their kisses and an old conversation with Wu Zhou.

• Chu Ci told the mahjong parlor owner he had damaged the tiles after confronting Cui Xuemei, and the owner let him leave without paying.
• Lele warned Chu Ci that Grandma had gone looking for him, so Chu Ci rushed out to get back to her.
• Lele spotted Ye Qingzhou helping Grandma across the road, easing Chu Ci’s worry.
• Chu Ci remembered the two kisses he shared with Ye Qingzhou while filming Let's Fall in Love and wondered about his first kiss.
• Chu Ci recalled telling Wu Zhou that people kept secretly sending potential partners onto his spaceship, and Wu Zhou asked whether he had agreed to it.

Chu Ci returned home and learned that Ye Qingzhou had been looking after his worried grandmother. As Grandma called Ye Qingzhou his good friend, Chu Ci began to ask whether he kissed his other friends, but the chapter ended before he finished.

• Lele recalled that Wu Zhou had challenged twelve seasoned battlefield fighters and defeated them to stop anyone from pursuing Chu Ci.
• Wu Zhou had warned Chu Ci's acquaintances not to approach him with women, but Lele chose not to tell Chu Ci about it.
• Chu Ci arrived home by taxi after his phone ran out of battery and found Ye Qingzhou supporting his grandmother.
• Chu Ci reassured Grandma that he was safe and thanked Ye Qingzhou for helping her.
• Ye Qingzhou called himself Chu Ci's good friend, prompting Chu Ci to start asking whether he kissed his other friends.

Chu Ci brought his grandmother, Shen Qingxiu, upstairs and let Ye Qingzhou join them for dinner, hiding the truth about their relationship from her. As Ye Qingzhou grew closer to Shen Qingxiu, he began calling Chu Ci “Cici,” leaving Chu Ci unexpectedly pleased by the sound.

• Chu Ci stopped his conversation with Ye Qingzhou when he realized Shen Qingxiu was nearby and took her upstairs.
• Shen Qingxiu invited Ye Qingzhou to stay for dinner, and Ye Qingzhou agreed after Chu Ci nodded.
• Ye Qingzhou carried Shen Qingxiu up the dilapidated stairs and charmed her with compliments.
• Shen Qingxiu asked Ye Qingzhou about his friendship with Chu Ci, and Ye Qingzhou reassured her by praising Chu Ci.
• Shen Qingxiu suggested Ye Qingzhou call Chu Ci “Cici,” and Ye Qingzhou did so, which Chu Ci found surprisingly pleasant.

Ye Qingzhou teased Chu Ci with affectionate nicknames and asked whether he accepted love between people of the same sex. After Chu Ci affirmed that gender did not matter, Ye Qingzhou revealed his fiercely protective ideas about a partner, then apologized in case he had frightened him.

• Ye Qingzhou carried Grandma home, then followed Chu Ci downstairs to buy groceries and called him “Cici.”
• Ye Qingzhou said he had liked Chu Ci at first sight, while Chu Ci questioned how quickly they had become familiar.
• Ye Qingzhou asked whether Chu Ci believed two boys or two girls could fall in love, and Chu Ci said gender should not matter.
• Ye Qingzhou agreed that love had nothing to do with gender and said he would find an arrogant partner cute because it showed the partner felt secure with him.
• Ye Qingzhou said he would grow strong enough to resolve any trouble for the person he loved and make anyone who harmed them pay.
• Ye Qingzhou noticed his words might have frightened Chu Ci, returned to his refined manner, and apologized.

Chu Ci and Ye Qingzhou discussed their friendship and their accidental kiss before properly introducing themselves as friends. At the market, Ye Qingzhou told Chu Ci about a paid livestream that evening, and Chu Ci agreed to take part; while Ye Qingzhou called the director, vendors offered free goods in exchange for Ye Qingzhou’s autograph.

• Chu Ci asked whether Ye Qingzhou wanted him to explain their on-show kiss to the man Ye Qingzhou liked, and Ye Qingzhou asked what Chu Ci had been about to say to his grandmother.
• Chu Ci recalled asking whether Ye Qingzhou kissed his other good friends, and Ye Qingzhou said Chu Ci was his first good friend and that their kiss had been his first too.
• Chu Ci and Ye Qingzhou introduced themselves properly and agreed to be good friends.
• Ye Qingzhou told Chu Ci that the production team had scheduled a paid livestream for nine that night, and Chu Ci agreed to participate because he needed money.
• Ye Qingzhou went outside to call the director, while market vendors offered Chu Ci free goods if he could get them Ye Qingzhou’s autograph.