Chapter Summaries

During a candy-stick task on the dating show, Ye Qingzhou and Chu Ci accidentally kissed for real, leaving Ye Qingzhou flustered and Chu Ci focused on the sweetness of the moment. Viewers celebrated the kiss and dubbed them the “First Kiss CP.”

• The director suspected Ye Qingzhou had joined the show for Chu Ci and secretly messaged the staff member handling the skill cards.
• Chu Ci and Ye Qingzhou continued the candy-stick task, moving close enough that their lips were only a centimeter apart.
• When the countdown ended, both men moved at once and their lips met in an accidental kiss.
• Ye Qingzhou backed away, red-faced and stumbling over his words, while Chu Ci ate the last piece of chocolate and called it sweet.
• Viewers reacted excitedly to the kiss and suggested naming the pair the “First Kiss CP.”

During a dating-show task, Ye Qingzhou flirted with Chu Ci, who told him he was sweeter than the chocolate stick and heard Ye Qingzhou admit he was shy only with him. After completing the task, they were given a chance to draw one of four Skill Cards, and Ye Qingzhou agreed to draw.

• Ye Qingzhou asked Chu Ci whether he meant the chocolate stick or Ye Qingzhou when he called something sweet, making the livestream audience erupt and the director celebrate.
• Chu Ci clarified that he meant the chocolate stick, then softened Ye Qingzhou's disappointment by saying Ye Qingzhou was sweeter.
• When Chu Ci asked if Ye Qingzhou was usually shy, Ye Qingzhou said he was only shy with Chu Ci.
• Chu Ci confirmed that they had completed the task, and a staff member presented four Skill Cards: the Double Card, Zeroing Card, Exchange Card, and Plunder Card.
• Chu Ci let Ye Qingzhou draw a card, and Ye Qingzhou agreed.

Ye Qingzhou turned Zhou Ze against Zhou Jin, breaking up their temporary alliance as Li Muting and Bai Zihan confronted Chu Ci. The chapter ended with Chu Ci calmly asking if his hat was what they wanted, while viewers wondered what skill cards he and Ye Qingzhou had drawn.

• Chu Ci and Ye Qingzhou left the task location with 350 yuan and encountered Zhou Ze, Zhou Jin, Li Muting, and Bai Zihan blocking their way.
• Zhou Jin urged Zhou Ze to honor their alliance and help him eliminate Chu Ci and Ye Qingzhou.
• Ye Qingzhou warned Zhou Ze that Zhou Jin might not share the money and persuaded him that the alliance was unreliable.
• Zhou Ze withdrew from the alliance with Zhou Jin, leaving Zhou Jin to face Chu Ci and Ye Qingzhou without his help.
• Li Muting and Bai Zihan surrounded Chu Ci, who pointed to his hat and asked if they wanted to remove it.

Chu Ci and Ye Qingzhou used their acting to conceal that they had drawn an Exchange Card, making the other teams back down rather than risk losing their money. They completed another task together and reached 450 yuan, leaving them 50 yuan short of the episode’s 500-yuan goal.

• Chu Ci pretended he was willing to let Li Muting and Bai Zihan take his hat, and neither dared risk approaching him.
• Bai Zihan and Zhou Ze left, Zhou Jin abandoned the contest, and Li Muting also withdrew.
• Chu Ci and Ye Qingzhou revealed that they had drawn an Exchange Card and had been bluffing; the card could have taken the other teams’ 350 yuan.
• Chu Ci and Ye Qingzhou continued their tasks and earned 100 yuan by holding hands with their fingers interlaced for five minutes.
• Chu Ci and Ye Qingzhou reached 450 yuan and still needed 50 yuan to meet their 500-yuan target.

Chu Ci and Ye Qingzhou completed an eye-contact task, and Chu Ci sensed hidden sadness in Ye Qingzhou’s gaze. Ye Qingzhou remembered meeting Chu Ci as a child in the palace, leaving the story with their first encounter from the past.

• Chu Ci drew a task card requiring him and Ye Qingzhou to look into each other’s eyes for one minute without laughing.
• Chu Ci and Ye Qingzhou stood within five centimeters of each other and held eye contact as the timer began.
• Chu Ci noticed sadness in Ye Qingzhou’s eyes and wondered what had made him sad.
• Ye Qingzhou remembered a bitter winter in his childhood, when palace servants took his charcoal and left him cold and alone.
• Chu Ci, dressed in white battle robes after returning from the battlefield, found the young Ye Qingzhou and asked why he was alone.

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.