Recaps

Pei Zeyan learned Wen Zhao would attend the fashion gala and ended up walking the red carpet beside him, where reporters enthusiastically chanted their pairing’s slogan. Wen Zhao’s smooth response left Pei Zeyan flustered, and he blamed Wen Zhao as they entered the venue.

• Niannian told Pei Zeyan that Wen Zhao had received an invitation to the gala, and Pei Zeyan pretended not to care.
• Pei Zeyan and Wen Zhao discovered that they had been assigned to walk the red carpet together, and each suspected the other had arranged it.
• Pei Zeyan claimed Niannian had asked him to get Wen Zhao’s autograph, and Wen Zhao promised to sign a photo for her.
• Reporters chanted “Zhao and Yan Under Heaven” when Pei Zeyan and Wen Zhao appeared on the red carpet.
• Wen Zhao thanked the crowd and said he would work hard to live up to their attention, prompting Pei Zeyan to echo him awkwardly.
• Pei Zeyan blamed Wen Zhao for getting swept into the response, and Wen Zhao teased him before heading to his seat.

Pei Zeyan tried to deny his feelings for Wen Zhao after their red-carpet appearance, but his reactions at Wen Zhao’s performance and in a backstage interview fueled more shipping rumors. Wen Zhao left for filming after giving Pei Zeyan his signed photo and teasing him about asking for his schedule, while Pei Zeyan kept the photo and insisted he was not hoping to see him again soon.

• Pei Zeyan found himself trending with Wen Zhao and became flustered after seeing a photo that made his heart race.
• Pei Zeyan tried to keep a blank expression but became visibly excited when Wen Zhao performed at the gala.
• Pei Zeyan claimed in a backstage interview that he had not watched Wen Zhao’s performance, and Wen Zhao remarked that the trending topics were entertaining.
• Pei Zeyan saw new trending topics mocking his denial, while Niannian pointed out that he had watched Wen Zhao intently.
• Wen Zhao gave Pei Zeyan the signed photo and said he would finish filming on the sixteenth next month, teasing him about asking for his schedule.
• Pei Zeyan reclaimed the signed photo from Niannian and insisted that he would still go to dinner despite Wen Zhao’s departure.

Pei Zeyan sought online advice about Wen Zhao’s mixed signals and began to question whether he had feelings for him. The consultant suggested Wen Zhao was keeping him on the hook, then ended the free session and offered paid packages.

• Pei Zeyan grew frustrated by Wen Zhao’s occasional photos and restrained replies, while looking forward to each new message.
• Pei Zeyan clicked an advertisement and began chatting with the WeChat contact Happiness Expert about Wen Zhao’s confession and their strained friendship.
• Happiness Expert suggested Pei Zeyan might be the one with unacknowledged feelings, and asked whether he would want to stay friends with anyone else who confessed to him.
• Pei Zeyan realized he felt no disgust imagining Wen Zhao kissing him and wondered if he was attracted to Wen Zhao.
• Pei Zeyan asked why Wen Zhao had become less responsive, and Happiness Expert guessed Wen Zhao was keeping him on the hook before demanding payment to continue.

Pei Zeyan paid Happiness Expert for advice on Wen Zhao’s behavior and followed a plan to make Wen Zhao jealous. After a long day of filming, Wen Zhao noticed Pei Zeyan’s new WeChat Moment instead of receiving a message from him.

• Pei Zeyan decided Happiness Expert was probably a scammer but transferred 1,888 RMB for a lifetime package anyway.
• Happiness Expert told Pei Zeyan that Wen Zhao was keeping him curious by replying selectively and suggested making Wen Zhao jealous.
• Pei Zeyan posted a WeChat Moment visible only to Wen Zhao, showing a meal for two and saying he had made a new friend.
• Wen Zhao finished work late, checked WeChat for Pei Zeyan’s message, and saw the new Moment instead.

Wen Zhao realized Pei Zeyan’s restaurant post was visible only to him and happily liked it. Pei Zeyan saw the like but, disappointed that Wen Zhao had sent no message, wondered if his phone signal was failing.

• Wen Zhao questioned how Pei Zeyan had eaten at a restaurant that was being renovated while filming all day.
• Wen Zhao asked the assistant director about Pei Zeyan’s schedule and learned Pei Zeyan had filmed from morning until night.
• Wen Zhao borrowed Jiangjiang’s phone and confirmed Pei Zeyan’s Moments post was hidden from her.
• Wen Zhao liked Pei Zeyan’s post, pleased that Pei Zeyan was learning to play along with him.
• Pei Zeyan waited for Wen Zhao’s reaction, then saw the like and wondered why no message had arrived.

Pei Zeyan followed Happiness Expert’s advice and sent Wen Zhao a carefully posed photo of his abs, then recalled it and claimed it was meant for a new friend. Wen Zhao had saved the photo before it disappeared, but told Pei Zeyan he hadn’t seen it, leaving Pei Zeyan stunned.

• Pei Zeyan asked Happiness Expert what Wen Zhao’s like on his private Moments post meant, and was told Wen Zhao had kept the initiative by revealing nothing about his feelings.
• Happiness Expert advised Pei Zeyan to send Wen Zhao an abs photo, recall it, and say it was meant for his new friend.
• Pei Zeyan admired his abs, took several photos, chose one, and sent it to Wen Zhao.
• Wen Zhao opened the photo, saved it, and watched Pei Zeyan recall it a minute later.
• Pei Zeyan apologized and said the photo had gone to the wrong person, but Wen Zhao waited before replying that he hadn’t been looking at his phone.
• Pei Zeyan was shocked that Wen Zhao claimed not to have seen the photo and wondered if he had sent it for nothing.

Pei Zeyan struggled to answer Wen Zhao’s questions about who could see his private photo and what Wen Zhao meant to him, so he asked his dating coach for help. Wen Zhao saw through Pei Zeyan’s evasive reply, then sent him an ab photo of his own and called it returning the favor.

• Wen Zhao asked Pei Zeyan who was allowed to see his private photo and what Wen Zhao was to him.
• Pei Zeyan agonized over his reply and sent his chat with Wen Zhao to his dating coach for advice.
• The dating coach told Pei Zeyan to say Wen Zhao was one of the people who could see the photo and sent him an edited puppy with abs to share.
• Pei Zeyan followed the advice, but Wen Zhao said he should send the abs only to him because someone else might beat Pei Zeyan up.
• Wen Zhao sent Pei Zeyan a selfie showing his own abs and said he was returning the favor.

Pei Zeyan mistook Wen Zhao’s returned abs photo for a friendly favor, while his “Happiness Expert” mistook their exchange for romantic progress and tried to sell him medicine. The chapter ended with Pei Zeyan realizing the expert thought he was pursuing Wen Zhao and insisting that he was straight.

• Pei Zeyan saved Wen Zhao’s abs photo, compared it with his own, and began doing push-ups to improve his abs.
• Pei Zeyan answered a voice call from “Happiness Expert,” who hung up after hearing him pant and then asked how Wen Zhao had responded.
• Pei Zeyan told the expert that Wen Zhao had returned the favor with a photo of his own abs, and the expert assumed the two had made rapid romantic progress.
• “Happiness Expert” sent Pei Zeyan an advertisement for men’s medicine, mistook his panting for a problem with sexual stamina, and offered him a discounted course.
• Pei Zeyan reminded the expert about an earlier promised discount and received a 94.4 refund, then angrily denied having a partner or needing the medicine.
• Pei Zeyan realized the expert thought he was pursuing Wen Zhao, insisted that he was straight, and threw his phone aside in exasperation.

Pei Zeyan tried to stop himself from messaging Wen Zhao by giving his phone to Niannian, while secretly hoping Wen Zhao would contact him. After Niannian returned the phone and Pei Zeyan charged it, he discovered three unread messages from Wen Zhao.

• Pei Zeyan blocked the Happiness Expert and decided to stop talking to Wen Zhao so Wen Zhao would not think he was pursuing him.
• Pei Zeyan kept wanting to message Wen Zhao, so he handed his phone to Niannian under the pretense that he needed to focus on filming.
• For seven days, Pei Zeyan asked Niannian whether anyone had messaged him, and she said no each time.
• Niannian realized she had never charged Pei Zeyan's phone, so it had been switched off for the entire week.
• Pei Zeyan charged his phone, opened WeChat, and saw three unread messages from Wen Zhao.

Pei Zeyan discovered that he had missed Wen Zhao’s dinner invitation while his phone was off and, after learning Wen Zhao’s team was leaving Qingzhou the next day, angrily assumed Wen Zhao did not care about him. He went to what he thought was a crew dinner and was stunned to find Wen Zhao waiting in the private dining room.

• Pei Zeyan read Wen Zhao’s delayed messages inviting him to dinner and hurriedly replied, explaining that his phone had broken and offering to treat him.
• Pei Zeyan asked Jiangjiang whether Wen Zhao was in Qingzhou and learned that Wen Zhao’s team had come to shoot a brand promotional video and planned to leave the next day.
• Pei Zeyan grew angry, believing Wen Zhao had not tried hard enough to contact him after he failed to reply.
• Niannian reminded Pei Zeyan about a dinner after work, and Pei Zeyan assumed it was a gathering with the production crew.
• Pei Zeyan entered the private dining room and was dumbstruck to see Wen Zhao there.

Pei Zeyan found himself alone with Wen Zhao at dinner and tried to hide how nervous he was. While they ate, Wen Zhao questioned him about a supposedly new friend and ended by asking if that person was his romantic rival.

• Pei Zeyan was surprised to learn that he and Wen Zhao would eat separately from Niannian and the others.
• Wen Zhao blocked Pei Zeyan from leaving the private room and teased him for seeming nervous.
• Pei Zeyan sat down and eagerly ate the dishes Wen Zhao had ordered, all of which were his favorites.
• Wen Zhao asked whether Pei Zeyan preferred the food at their dinner or the food he had eaten with a new friend.
• Pei Zeyan awkwardly claimed the friend was not from the set and that Wen Zhao did not know them.
• Wen Zhao asked whether the new friend was his romantic rival, leaving Pei Zeyan stunned.

Pei Zeyan confronted Wen Zhao about seeing an unsent ab photo and sending one to an ordinary friend, prompting Wen Zhao to confess that Pei Zeyan had never been ordinary to him. Pei Zeyan tried to test his own feelings by kissing Wen Zhao, and Wen Zhao pulled him onto his lap and deepened the kiss.

• Pei Zeyan accused Wen Zhao of lying about seeing the ab photo he had unsent.
• Wen Zhao said Pei Zeyan had never been just an ordinary friend to him, leaving Pei Zeyan flustered.
• Pei Zeyan pretended not to hear Wen Zhao and awkwardly picked at his food.
• Pei Zeyan approached Wen Zhao and said he needed to check whether Wen Zhao had succeeded in throwing him off.
• Pei Zeyan kissed Wen Zhao to test his feelings, and Wen Zhao pulled him onto his lap and deepened the kiss.

Pei Zeyan and Wen Zhao kissed passionately before Pei Zeyan pulled away, worried they were moving too fast. Wen Zhao left him with three days to process what happened, then teased him about saving another kiss for later.

• Pei Zeyan and Wen Zhao kissed again and began removing their jackets, but Pei Zeyan stopped Wen Zhao and said it felt too soon and inappropriate to continue there.
• Wen Zhao told Pei Zeyan he would be away in the imperial capital recording songs and gave him three days to process and accept what had happened.
• Pei Zeyan ate nervously while trying to hide how flustered he felt, and Wen Zhao told him he would find out what happened after three days.
• At the private room's door, Wen Zhao stopped Pei Zeyan and returned the phone he had forgotten.
• Wen Zhao teased Pei Zeyan about thinking he wanted another kiss and said to save it for three days later.

Pei Zeyan asked Happiness Expert what Wen Zhao meant by “in three days,” and was told Wen Zhao planned to sleep with him. The advice turned into a sales pitch, and Pei Zeyan accidentally ordered free medicine just before Wen Zhao came to visit.

• Pei Zeyan kept thinking about Wen Zhao saying “in three days” and asked Happiness Expert what he meant.
• Happiness Expert concluded that Wen Zhao planned to sleep with Pei Zeyan and congratulated him.
• Happiness Expert offered Pei Zeyan two free boxes of medicine for men's happiness.
• Pei Zeyan accidentally sent his assistant Niannian's delivery details and decided to let the medicine ship.
• The package arrived just as Wen Zhao came to see Pei Zeyan.

Wen Zhao surprised Pei Zeyan at home, where an unexpectedly delivered package of virility pills led to teasing and an intimate night together. The side story ended with Wen Zhao and Pei Zeyan reaffirming their love for each other.

• Niannian sent Pei Zeyan into his home alone, where Wen Zhao surprised him with a passionate kiss.
• Niannian returned with a package, which Pei Zeyan opened to find two boxes of virility pills and a suggestive note.
• Wen Zhao teased Pei Zeyan about the pills and carried him into the bedroom to prove they were unnecessary.
• Afterward, Wen Zhao joked about whether the pills worked, and Pei Zeyan told him he was very capable.
• Wen Zhao told Pei Zeyan he loved him, and Pei Zeyan returned the sentiment.