Chapter Summaries

Shi Wei filmed successfully with Ji Hanchuan, then went to his room expecting to discuss divorce papers. After a meal, Ji Hanchuan found a leather whip in Shi Wei’s backpack, leaving him wondering why it was there.

• Ji Hanchuan tried to comfort Shi Wei, who slapped him and ran off while mistaking him for Yang Xun during the scene.
• Luo Sixi praised Shi Wei’s performance, and Shi Wei smugly celebrated his success while planning to investigate Old Wang.
• Shi Wei passed his next scene while Zhuo Xiao stumbled through retakes and grew insecure about Shi Wei’s acting and closeness to Ji Hanchuan.
• Zhuo Xiao followed Shi Wei into the props storage area and watched him choose and practice with a leather whip.
• Shi Wei visited Ji Hanchuan’s room to ask about the divorce, but stopped resisting the conversation when Ji Hanchuan offered him food.
• After they ate, Ji Hanchuan pulled a strange black rod from Shi Wei’s backpack and wondered what it meant.

Ji Hanchuan questioned Shi Wei about his emotional performance and admitted he had invented Xiao Wang to provoke him into character. Shi Wei accepted a red packet after dramatic complaints, and Ji Hanchuan ended by suggesting they try their scene again.

• Shi Wei pretended the leather whip was a prop, but Ji Hanchuan took it and questioned why Shi Wei had cried so hard while filming.
• Ji Hanchuan tied Shi Wei's hands with the whip and pressed him to explain why he was upset; Shi Wei claimed he was jealous because Ji Hanchuan had kissed Xiao Wang.
• Ji Hanchuan confessed that Xiao Wang did not exist and that he had lied to bring out Shi Wei's emotions for the scene.
• Shi Wei complained about the lie and his cold night outside Ji Hanchuan's door, then changed his mind about Xiao Wang when Ji Hanchuan sent him a red packet.
• Ji Hanchuan argued that Shi Wei had been too caught up in their scene and offered to try it again, leaving Shi Wei wondering whether he had truly been immersed in the kiss.

Shi Wei and Ji Hanchuan kissed during rehearsal, and Ji Hanchuan asked Shi Wei to consider what had truly made him angry. The next morning, Zhuo Xiao mistook Shi Wei’s whip marks for evidence that Ji Hanchuan had mistreated him, while Ji Hanchuan left breakfast in a sour mood; at the set, an unfamiliar young man greeted Shi Wei as his big brother.

• Shi Wei resisted Ji Hanchuan’s invitation to kiss, but Ji Hanchuan kissed him for eight minutes and then applied ointment to his whip marks.
• Ji Hanchuan told Shi Wei to think carefully about what he had been angry about, and Shi Wei privately wondered if his feelings were more complicated than missing out on gossip.
• Zhuo Xiao noticed the marks on Shi Wei’s wrist and decided to save him from Ji Hanchuan, though Shi Wei thought Zhuo Xiao was upset about breakfast.
• Ji Hanchuan watched Shi Wei and Zhuo Xiao talk over breakfast, found his coffee bitter, and left without joining them.
• At the set, an unfamiliar young man ran up and called Shi Wei his big brother.

Shi Wei learned that Lin Xinyang, Xu Xirui’s junior, had joined the drama as Ji Hanchuan’s current boyfriend. After seeing footage of Shi Wei filming with Ji Hanchuan, Xu Xirui ordered Lin to spy on them, while Shi Wei and Ji kept filming smoothly.

• Lin Xinyang introduced himself to Shi Wei, who learned he was playing Teacher Ji’s current boyfriend.
• Xu Xirui faced pressure from Bai Xuan and Gao Zhizhang, then learned that Shi Wei was starring opposite Ji Hanchuan.
• Xu Xirui told Lin Xinyang to watch Shi Wei and report anything that happened between him and Ji Hanchuan.
• Lin Xinyang watched Shi Wei and Ji Hanchuan complete their scenes in one take.
• Ji Hanchuan caught Shi Wei rubbing against a car and asked if he should report him as a pervert.

Shi Wei learned that Ji Hanchuan had accepted the drama at the last minute to help him, then noticed Ji Hanchuan react strangely to a blank calendar reminder. During the next scene, a rumble from the sky unsettled Ji Hanchuan and caused both men to lose their lines, leaving the set concerned about him.

• Shi Wei learned from Li Xiaochen that Ji Hanchuan had initially turned down Luo Sixi but changed his mind and accepted the drama, apparently to help Shi Wei.
• Ji Hanchuan reacted rigidly when a blank calendar reminder appeared on his phone, then told Shi Wei it was nothing.
• Shi Wei and Ji Hanchuan resumed filming the scene as Xia Chi and Yang Xun after Luo Sixi called action.
• A rumble sounded as Shi Wei began his next line, and Ji Hanchuan's changed expression caused both actors to forget their lines and ruin the take.
• Ji Hanchuan sat down, gripping the armrests as he tried to recover, while Shi Wei teased him and the onlookers sensed something was wrong.

Shi Wei teased Ji Hanchuan on set and later brought him breakfast, while Ji Hanchuan privately worried that his mental illness was returning. After a terrifying night of hallucinations, Ji Hanchuan welcomed Shi Wei’s arrival, though Shi Wei concluded that he seemed fine.

• Shi Wei joked with Ji Hanchuan on set, and they finished their scene together in one take.
• Ji Hanchuan remembered that an approaching date had prompted him to stop taking his medication and worried that he would go crazy again and frighten Shi Wei.
• Lin Xinyang struggled through repeated takes of a confrontation scene with Ji Hanchuan, leaving the set exhausted.
• During a storm, Ji Hanchuan heard a voice and experienced a frightening hallucination before forcing himself to wait for dawn.
• Shi Wei arrived at Ji Hanchuan’s hotel room with breakfast, and Ji Hanchuan welcomed him while Shi Wei decided he seemed fine.

Shi Wei watched Ji Hanchuan closely, then filmed a tense scene with him and Lin Xinyang on set. After filming, Shi Wei found Ji Hanchuan trembling when the room suddenly went dark.

• Shi Wei ordered Li Xiaochen to get him breakfast and visited Ji Hanchuan, whom he watched for signs that something was wrong.
• At the set, Shi Wei warned Lin Xinyang not to make him repeat their scene all night, and Luo Sixi began filming.
• During the scene, Lin Xinyang tried to slap Shi Wei, but Ji Hanchuan caught his hand and said he had no right to touch him.
• Luo Sixi kept the take, and Ji Hanchuan explained that he had changed the scene because he was immersed in his role.
• After filming, Shi Wei secretly watched Ji Hanchuan, then the room went dark and Ji Hanchuan grabbed his arm while trembling.

During a blackout, Ji Hanchuan panicked at the thought of ghosts, and Shi Wei discovered his fear. Shi Wei took Ji Hanchuan back to the hotel to watch horror movies together, and Ji Hanchuan eventually fell asleep as the fear faded.

• When the lights came back on, Ji Hanchuan realized he had gripped Shi Wei’s arm in fear, and Shi Wei asked if he was scared of ghosts.
• Shi Wei told Ji Hanchuan to return to the hotel while he prepared something, then brought popcorn, snacks, and horror movies to Ji Hanchuan’s room.
• Shi Wei encouraged Ji Hanchuan to face his fear by watching horror movies, but Ji Hanchuan pretended to be frightened when Shi Wei asked how he felt.
• When a ghost appeared on screen, Shi Wei jumped into Ji Hanchuan’s arms and explained that he was trying to make Ji Hanchuan’s desire to protect him outweigh his fear.
• As the movie continued, Ji Hanchuan’s fear subsided, and he fell asleep before Shi Wei could stage another scare.

Shi Wei discovered that Ji Hanchuan had sleepwalked and made a mess during the night, but Ji Hanchuan refused to explain and began avoiding him. After two days of being kept at a distance, Shi Wei learned that Ji Hanchuan had sent Li Xiaochen to fetch him, though neither assistant nor actor understood why.

• Shi Wei found Ji Hanchuan asleep during the horror movie and stayed when Ji Hanchuan's grip on his clothes stopped him from leaving.
• Shi Wei woke during the night and saw Ji Hanchuan sleepwalking around the room before returning to sit beside him and grab his clothes again.
• In the morning, Shi Wei told Ji Hanchuan that he had sleepwalked and made a mess, but Ji Hanchuan sent him away and refused to discuss it.
• Over the next two days, Ji Hanchuan avoided Shi Wei, while Li Xiaochen repeatedly kept Shi Wei from approaching him.
• Li Xiaochen visited Shi Wei the next day, and Shi Wei told him they were leaving.

Shi Wei discovered that Ji Hanchuan was taking insomnia medicine and, worried about him, asked to return to X City with him. They left the set together, and Shi Wei embraced Ji Hanchuan in the airport lounge.

• Li Xiaochen told Shi Wei that Ji Hanchuan planned to return to X City, and Shi Wei found out the medicine Ji Hanchuan had ordered treated insomnia.
• Shi Wei asked Zhuo Xiao how to approach someone hiding a serious illness, then realized he was worried about Ji Hanchuan.
• Shi Wei visited Ji Hanchuan and asked whether he could return with him, and Ji Hanchuan invited him to go along.
• Shi Wei and Ji Hanchuan finished their scenes quickly and left for the airport the next day.
• Shi Wei found Ji Hanchuan alone in the VVIP lounge and rushed into his open arms.

Shi Wei and Ji Hanchuan flew together, then went to the Ji Family residence, where Ji Hanchuan’s anxiety surfaced again. The chapter ended with Ji Hanchuan gripping Shi Wei’s wrist and staring at him in terror.

• Shi Wei noticed Ji Hanchuan was tense during takeoff, and Ji Hanchuan grabbed his hand until the turbulence passed.
• After landing, Shi Wei teased Ji Hanchuan and his assistant Dong Heng during the drive.
• Ji Hanchuan brought Shi Wei to the Ji Family residence and explained that they would stay there for a few days.
• Shi Wei found the kitchen stocked with healthy food and offered to make Ji Hanchuan noodles.
• When Shi Wei poked Ji Hanchuan on the sofa, Ji Hanchuan grabbed his wrist painfully and looked at him with fear.

Shi Wei tried to keep Ji Hanchuan safe and calm during their first night together, but his improvised methods only made Ji Hanchuan more exasperated. Ji Hanchuan said he would take Shi Wei somewhere the next day, while Shi Wei stayed awake imagining frying him as bacon.

• Shi Wei let Ji Hanchuan hold his arm, then made himself comfortable and asked where they would sleep.
• Shi Wei tied Ji Hanchuan's wrists with a tie for safety and hid potential weapons around the house.
• Shi Wei threw away Ji Hanchuan's pill and played a porn video to encourage him to relieve his stress, but Ji Hanchuan rejected the plan and tossed the USB drive out the window.
• Ji Hanchuan pulled Shi Wei back from the window and said he would take him somewhere the next day.
• Shi Wei stayed awake watching Ji Hanchuan and imagined frying him with bacon, while Ji Hanchuan listened to his thoughts.

Ji Hanchuan woke after sleeping without medication and spent the morning with Shi Wei, while Xu Xirui mistakenly suspected a rival was in Ji Hanchuan’s house. Ji Hanchuan brought Shi Wei to his older brother’s grave, where he revealed that his brother had told him he hated him and prepared to share the reason.

• Ji Hanchuan woke beside Shi Wei after sleeping without medication, then ordered bacon and cooked breakfast for him.
• Xu Xirui saw Ji Hanchuan return home and heard a suggestive voice inside, then asked Lin Xinyang to check whether Shi Wei was at the hotel.
• Lin Xinyang lied that Shi Wei was seriously ill and in his hotel room, leaving Xu Xirui convinced that someone else was with Ji Hanchuan.
• Ji Hanchuan took Shi Wei to a cemetery to visit his older brother’s grave, and Shi Wei guessed that his brother’s death was connected to Ji Hanchuan’s illness.
• Ji Hanchuan told Shi Wei that his brother had said he hated him before he died, then said Shi Wei could leave after hearing the rest.

Ji Hanchuan told Shi Wei about the childhood accident that led to his half brother Ji Xiangyu’s death and the guilt that still haunted him. Shi Wei stayed with him, and Ji Hanchuan eventually sang to him as they lay together for the night.

• Ten-year-old Ji Hanchuan met his older half brother Ji Xiangyu, who brought joy to his summer despite their family’s hostility toward him.
• After Ji Xiangyu’s mother confronted the family, she dragged him into a lake, and Ji Hanchuan jumped in but was held back by the driver as Ji Xiangyu drowned.
• Ji Hanchuan developed depression and recurring sleepwalking after the deaths, and Shi Wei learned that he still blamed himself for what happened.
• Shi Wei took Ji Hanchuan’s hand and tried to comfort him, then asked how he had recovered before; Ji Hanchuan put off answering and drove them home.
• Ji Hanchuan gave Shi Wei the car key, and the two watched comedy films before Shi Wei tied Ji Hanchuan’s hands again at bedtime.
• When Shi Wei suggested singing a lullaby, Ji Hanchuan sang to him, stirring an intense feeling in his chest.

Ji Hanchuan was haunted by the voice of the dead boy and rejected Xu Xirui, who then entered the house and found him terrified. Meanwhile, Shi Wei climbed to the boy’s grave with gifts on the anniversary of his death.

• Shi Wei left Ji Hanchuan alone, and Ji Hanchuan woke to the dead boy’s voice and panicked.
• Ji Hanchuan tried to take his pills but found that Shi Wei had replaced them with mint candies, then called Feng Wan.
• Xu Xirui came to comfort Ji Hanchuan, but Ji Hanchuan told him to leave and shut the door on him.
• Xu Xirui entered the unlocked house and found Ji Hanchuan huddled in terror.
• Shi Wei climbed to the mountaintop and laid gifts beneath an umbrella at the boy’s gravestone on the anniversary of his death.

Shi Wei tried to lure the ghost away from Ji Hanchuan, then joined a roadside rescue after a landslide buried a car. As another surge of debris fell toward him, Ji Hanchuan recovered from his hallucinations and rejected Xu Xirui’s confession, while Feng Wan called after seeing Shi Wei’s car on the news.

• Shi Wei spoke to the dead boy in a photograph, urging him to haunt Shi Wei instead of Ji Hanchuan.
• Shi Wei stopped to help drivers dig out a car buried by a landslide and helped rescue a child, but the trapped woman could not free her foot.
• As Shi Wei reached toward the buried car, a fresh wave of mud and rocks came crashing down toward him.
• Xu Xirui comforted Ji Hanchuan until the hallucinations passed, then confessed his feelings and tried to kiss him.
• Ji Hanchuan rejected Xu Xirui, offered him payment for his help, and asked him to leave.
• Feng Wan called Ji Hanchuan after seeing his car on a live news broadcast, and he told her he had given the car to Shi Wei.

Shi Wei was trapped in a buried car with a woman after a collapse, then rescued and reunited with Ji Hanchuan. On the ambulance, Ji Hanchuan learned Shi Wei had left offerings at Ji Xiangyu’s grave, and he held Shi Wei close when he heard the rain had stopped.

• Shi Wei woke in the buried car and reassured the trapped woman while they waited for rescuers.
• Firefighters freed Shi Wei, and Ji Hanchuan carried him into an ambulance to avoid the waiting media.
• Shi Wei discovered Ji Hanchuan had come because he thought Shi Wei had left, and they argued playfully about the stolen ambulance and Shi Wei’s trip to the cemetery.
• Dong Heng told Ji Hanchuan that Shi Wei had left basketball gear, a fishing rod, school workbooks, sneakers, a tablet, and Ji Hanchuan’s first film at Ji Xiangyu’s grave.
• Shi Wei said the rain stopped as he headed back, and Ji Hanchuan hugged him tightly with stinging eyes.

After Shi Wei recovered in the hospital, he returned home with Ji Hanchuan and discovered that Ji’s illness had left their living room wrecked. Shi Wei watched surveillance footage showing Xu Xirui arriving at their home in the rain and confronting Ji Hanchuan, then turned to Ji with scorn as Dong Heng looked angry.

• Feng Wan warned Ji Hanchuan and Shi Wei that paparazzi might trace Shi’s cemetery visit back to Ji, while Ji said they could suppress the news if it leaked.
• Shi Wei urged Ji to see a psychiatrist, and Ji admitted he had panicked when Shi went missing before telling him not to run off again.
• Feng Wan caught Ji and Shi being affectionate in the hospital, threatened them against causing a scandal, and left them to spend the night separately.
• After Shi was discharged, he and Ji found their living room badly damaged and learned that Ji’s illness had apparently caused the destruction.
• Shi pressured Dong Heng into showing him surveillance footage, which revealed Xu Xirui arriving at the house in the rain and speaking to Ji.
• Ji asked what they were watching as Shi looked at him scornfully and Dong Heng looked angry.

Shi Wei learned that Xu Xirui’s influence had helped cure Ji Hanchuan’s childhood trauma, but he worried that Ji Hanchuan’s illness might relapse and give Xu Xirui another chance to win him over. Back home, Ji Hanchuan refused to carry Shi Wei and instead pinned him in the elevator, leaving Shi Wei flustered.

• Dong Heng accused Ji Hanchuan of cheating on Shi Wei, then watched the video and realized Xu Xirui had left the residence alone after Ji Hanchuan rejected him.
• Ji Hanchuan took Shi Wei home, and Shi Wei questioned the system about Xu Xirui’s ability to heal Ji Hanchuan’s trauma and the possible cause of his relapse.
• Shi Wei worried that Xu Xirui’s influence might pull Ji Hanchuan back into his orbit, while the system admitted it did not know why the illness had returned.
• At home, Shi Wei demanded that Ji Hanchuan carry him upstairs, but Ji Hanchuan backed him into a corner of the elevator instead.

Shi Wei and Ji Hanchuan returned home, where Shi Wei learned that Ji Hanchuan had rejected and blocked Xu Xirui, then joined Ji Hanchuan on a trip to visit Ji Xiangyu’s grave. At the cemetery, Ji Hanchuan made Shi Wei perform the song “Love you,” and watched him with growing warmth.

• Shi Wei tried to negotiate for takeout, but Ji Hanchuan refused his requests until they settled on sausages and noodles.
• Xu Xirui messaged Ji Hanchuan to thank him for money and offered to keep him company; Ji Hanchuan replied that Xu should not contact him again and blocked him.
• Ji Hanchuan told Shi Wei that he had not noticed Xu Xirui during the visit and suggested they visit him again before returning to the set.
• On the sunny drive, Ji Hanchuan carried Shi Wei up the cemetery stairs after Shi Wei playfully asked him to.
• Ji Hanchuan and Shi Wei burned paper offerings for Ji Xiangyu, then Ji Hanchuan insisted Shi Wei sing for their family.
• Shi Wei sang “Love you” and made a finger heart toward Ji Hanchuan, who watched him with a warm, tingling feeling.