Chapter Summaries

Lu Chiyan and Qin Sili arrived at a kindergarten for a variety-show task, where Qin Sili’s cryptic remarks left Lu Chiyan wondering what he meant. At the principal’s office, principal Ding Ke recognized Qin Sili as the head of her group but was interrupted before she could address him by his title.

• The production crew gave Lu Chiyan and Qin Sili a task card instructing them to find the kindergarten principal.
• Lu Chiyan joked that he would send Qin Sili’s future child to the kindergarten, and Qin Sili replied that he would have to disappoint him.
• Lu Chiyan agonized over whether Qin Sili meant he would not have children, while Qin Sili called him dense.
• Lu Chiyan and Qin Sili found the principal’s office and introduced themselves to Ding Ke.
• Ding Ke recognized Qin Sili as the president of her group, but Qin Sili introduced himself by name before she could finish addressing him.

Lu Chiyan and Qin Sili were asked to rehearse a kindergarten performance over three days for a reward of 5,000 yuan. Qin Sili objected to the low payment, and Ding Ke kept raising her offer while he remained silent.

• Lu Chiyan asked whether Qin Sili and the girl knew each other, and the girl denied it.
• Ding Ke explained that the kindergarten needed help rehearsing a performance for its variety show in three days and offered 5,000 yuan if it won enough audience votes.
• Qin Sili said the reward was too little, noting that the kindergarten paid its teachers more.
• Ding Ke raised the offer from 10,000 yuan to 20,000 and then 30,000 yuan while Qin Sili stayed silent.
• Lu Chiyan was shocked that the reward could be negotiated so easily.

Lu Chiyan persuaded Ding Ke to fund a charity variety show and proposed selling low-cost tickets to raise money. After meeting the children who would perform with them, Lu Chiyan and Qin Sili discovered they had been cast as Snow White and Prince Charming.

• Lu Chiyan negotiated a payment of fifty thousand yuan from Ding Ke in exchange for adding more acts to the show.
• Lu Chiyan proposed a public charity variety show with 9.9-yuan tickets, and Ding Ke agreed to provide the kindergarten venue.
• Lu Chiyan took responsibility for publicity, ticket sales, and arranging the performances, while ticket proceeds would go to charity.
• Lu Chiyan and Qin Sili met the children and learned they would perform in the stage play "Snow White."
• A little girl assigned Lu Chiyan the role of Snow White and Qin Sili the role of Prince Charming.

Lu Chiyan and Qin Sili agreed to act in Nan Xuan’s Snow White play after learning that her father was the actor Nan Yi. Nan Xuan handed them scripts and costumes so they could begin rehearsing.

• Lu Chiyan asked Nan Xuan why she had cast him as Snow White and Qin Sili as Prince Charming.
• Nan Xuan insisted that Qin Sili was the better choice for Prince Charming and said she was the director.
• Nan Xuan said her father was an actor, and Qin Sili revealed that he was Nan Yi.
• Lu Chiyan recognized Nan Yi as his boss and agreed to play Snow White.
• Nan Xuan gave Lu Chiyan and Qin Sili their scripts and pointed them to the costumes before rehearsal.

Lu Chiyan and Qin Sili changed into their costumes for rehearsal, and Lu Chiyan struggled to keep his thoughts about his biological brother innocent. The chapter left Lu Chiyan asking Qin Sili to zip up his Snow White dress.

• Little Nanxuan insisted that Lu Chiyan and Qin Sili take the rehearsal seriously and change into their costumes.
• Lu Chiyan and Qin Sili changed together, and Lu Chiyan tried to avert his eyes while thinking of Qin Sili as his biological brother.
• Qin Sili deliberately walked past Lu Chiyan bare-chested, drawing Lu Chiyan's gaze to his abs.
• Qin Sili teased Lu Chiyan for taking so long to remove his sweatshirt, then draped it over his own shirt.
• Lu Chiyan put on Snow White's dress but could not reach its zipper, so he asked Qin Sili to help.

Qin Sili helped Lu Chiyan zip up a dress, and their close contact made Lu Chiyan flustered. Qin Sili tried to get him to understand that their surnames meant they were not biological brothers, but Lu Chiyan completely misunderstood and worried that the dress looked empty at the chest.

• Qin Sili approached Lu Chiyan with his shirt open and helped pull up the stuck zipper on Lu Chiyan's dress.
• Qin Sili put a hand on Lu Chiyan's abdomen as he zipped the dress, leaving Lu Chiyan nervous and red-faced.
• Qin Sili reminded Lu Chiyan that his surname was Qin and Lu Chiyan's was Lu, hoping he would grasp that they were not brothers.
• Lu Chiyan said he had finished thinking and suggested stuffing steamed buns into the dress to fill out its chest.

Lu Chiyan and Qin Sili dressed as Snow White and Prince Charming for a rehearsal, where Qin Sili kissed Lu Chiyan for real. Lu Chiyan was left stunned as he realized it was their first kiss.

• Lu Chiyan stuffed fake apples into his costume and admired himself as Snow White, while Qin Sili quietly agreed that he looked good.
• Qin Sili told Lu Chiyan that he thought so too when Lu Chiyan joked that Prince Charming would be smitten with him, making Lu Chiyan's heart race.
• Lu Chiyan and Qin Sili emerged from the changing room in costume as amused bullet comments speculated about their time inside.
• Nan Xuan guided the rehearsal through Snow White's awakening scene, with Qin Sili playing Prince Charming and Lu Chiyan lying in a crystal coffin.
• Qin Sili stroked Lu Chiyan's face and kissed him for real, leaving Lu Chiyan stunned.

During the Snow White play, Qin Sili kissed Lu Chiyan for real, leaving Lu too embarrassed to wake up on cue. After Qin Sili threatened to repeat the take, Lu talked himself into treating the kiss as acting and offered to try again.

• Nan Xuan read the part where Snow White woke up, but Lu Chiyan stayed motionless in the crystal coffin.
• Lu Chiyan remembered Qin Sili's real kiss and nervously avoided opening his eyes.
• Qin Sili caught Lu secretly peeking and said they would have to repeat a botched take.
• Lu Chiyan sat up and tried to tell Qin Sili that he did not need to kiss him for real.
• Lu Chiyan convinced himself the kiss was just part of acting, lay back down, and told Qin Sili he was ready to do the scene again.

During a livestreamed rehearsal, Lu Chiyan expected Qin Sili to kiss him awake, but Qin Sili teased him by touching his lips with a thumb instead. Their playful exchange left viewers debating whether they were lovers or brothers after posts claimed Lu Chiyan had grown up in the Qin family as Qin Sili’s younger brother.

• Lu Chiyan closed his eyes and waited for Qin Sili to kiss him awake, but Qin Sili delayed while Nan Xuan watched.
• Nan Xuan asked whether Qin Sili wanted Snow White to wake up, and Qin Sili touched Lu Chiyan’s lips with his thumb instead of kissing him.
• Lu Chiyan opened his eyes in confusion, and Nan Xuan corrected his expression, saying Snow White should look surprised, happy, and shy.
• Qin Sili teased Lu Chiyan into acting happy to see Prince Charming, while Lu Chiyan forced himself to follow Nan Xuan’s direction.
• Viewers reacted to the livestreamed rehearsal, and some commenters shared claims that Lu Chiyan had grown up in Qin Sili’s home and was his younger brother.

Lu Chiyan and Qin Sili’s on-screen closeness sparked a fierce debate over whether their bond was brotherly or romantic, while the other contestants returned exhausted from their tasks. The chapter ended with Lu Chiyan asking Wen Zhao and Liang Chu why they looked so worn out after visiting an amusement park.

• Livestream viewers argued over whether Qin Sili and Lu Chiyan shared brotherly or romantic love, and the debate spread across Weibo’s trending topics.
• Lu Chiyan and Qin Sili returned to the villa after rehearsing, where they found the other contestants sprawled across the sofas.
• Pei Zeyan explained that he and Gu Xia'an had boxed against children at a gym to compete for 5,000 yuan.
• Pei Zeyan narrowly beat a twelve-year-old boxer, while Gu Xia'an won against an eleven-year-old girl who went easy on her.
• Lu Chiyan asked Wen Zhao and Liang Chu why they looked exhausted after their amusement park task.

After a punishing day of amusement-park rides and nonstop coffee-making, Lu Chiyan proposed that the group earn money by performing at a kindergarten variety show. Wen Zhao and Pei Zeyan were volunteered for six of the ten planned acts, leaving the others to prepare four more.

• Wen Zhao and Liang Chu complained that their ride-companion assignments had made them ride roller coasters and pirate ships over and over.
• Zhou Siyan explained that she and Mu Ting had made 381 cups of coffee while trying to sell the required hundred.
• Pei Zeyan asked Lu Chiyan why he and Qin Sili seemed so energetic after working at the kindergarten.
• Lu Chiyan proposed that the group join the kindergarten variety show and sell tickets to complete their assignment.
• Pei Zeyan volunteered Wen Zhao for three acts, and Wen Zhao insisted Pei Zeyan perform three as well.
• Lu Chiyan planned ten acts in total, leaving the rest of the group to prepare four.

During the talent-show discussion, Pei Zeyan noticed Lu Chiyan was trending over claims about his relationship with Qin Sili. Lu Chiyan confirmed the claims were basically true, but privately balked at calling Qin Sili his brother, while Qin Sili’s mood brightened at Lu Chiyan’s thoughts.

• Pei Zeyan checked Weibo and told Lu Chiyan that gossip about him was trending.
• Pei Zeyan urged Lu Chiyan to clear up the rumors, while Wen Zhao teased Pei Zeyan about an old rumor of his own.
• Lu Chiyan read a post from someone claiming to be his middle school classmate and confirmed that he had grown up in the Qin Family after his father died.
• Lu Chiyan found no need to address the rumors or the fans shipping him with Qin Sili and others.
• Pei Zeyan asked whether Qin Sili really was Lu Chiyan’s older brother, and Lu Chiyan privately rejected the idea because they were not blood-related.
• Qin Sili noticed Lu Chiyan looking at him and brightened when he heard Lu Chiyan’s thoughts.

Lu Chiyan deflected questions about his relationship with Qin Sili by teasing Pei Zeyan, then the group planned their show and chose a song for everyone to perform together. After a late-night meeting, Pei Zeyan learned he could pick the next life manager and chose Lu Chiyan in retaliation.

• Lu Chiyan joked that he was Pei Zeyan’s big brother by age, distracting everyone from questions about Qin Sili.
• Lu Chiyan said he would sing “My Motherland and Me,” and Gu Xia'an suggested ending the show with all eight performers singing it together.
• Pei Zeyan finalized the plan for eight acts after the group discussed the show until one in the morning.
• The production team told Pei Zeyan that he could designate the next life manager because he had served that day.
• Pei Zeyan chose Lu Chiyan as the next life manager, while Lu Chiyan sneezed in the shower without knowing why.

Lu Chiyan struggled with his growing attraction to Qin Sili, while Qin Sili reacted strongly to seeing him after his shower. The chapter ended with Qin Sili covering Lu Chiyan’s hand as he tried to leave and make him ginger Coke.

• Lu Chiyan stayed in the bathroom for over forty minutes, troubled by his changed feelings for Qin Sili.
• Qin Sili saw Lu Chiyan emerge from the steamy bathroom and hurried inside to take a cold shower.
• Lu Chiyan noticed Qin Sili had showered in cold water and scolded him for risking a cold.
• Lu Chiyan offered to make Qin Sili ginger Coke, but Qin Sili covered his hand on the doorknob, making Lu Chiyan’s heart race.

Qin Sili heard Lu Chiyan’s hidden desire for him and, realizing Lu Chiyan’s heart belonged to him, kissed him. Their passionate kiss ended when Lu Chiyan hit his head on the bed’s headboard and bit Qin Sili’s bleeding lip.

• Qin Sili heard Lu Chiyan’s thoughts about wanting to kiss him, while Lu Chiyan insisted he had said nothing.
• Lu Chiyan tried to withdraw and go to bed, but Qin Sili caught his arm and pinned him against the wall.
• Qin Sili confessed his feelings through a fierce kiss, and Lu Chiyan eagerly kissed him back.
• They kissed their way toward the bed, where Lu Chiyan struck his head on the headboard and accidentally bit Qin Sili.
• The kiss stopped as Lu Chiyan clutched his sore head and Qin Sili’s split lip bled.

After Qin Sili admitted that he liked him, Lu Chiyan kissed him again, but stopped things from going further because a camera might turn on. Qin Sili left Lu Chiyan with a bleeding lip, and they worried about facing people the next day.

• Qin Sili checked the back of Lu Chiyan’s head and reassured him that the blood at the corner of his mouth did not hurt.
• Lu Chiyan asked Qin Sili if he liked him, and Qin Sili said yes without hesitation.
• Lu Chiyan kissed Qin Sili, then stopped him from going further because a camera in the room might turn on.
• Qin Sili kissed Lu Chiyan fiercely and bit the corner of his mouth, leaving it bleeding.
• Lu Chiyan complained about the bite and worried how they would face everyone the next day.

Qin Sili and Lu Chiyan covered up their matching split lips by claiming mosquitoes had bitten them, while Pei Zeyan and Wen Zhao teased them. On the way to rehearse their play, Qin Sili bought ointment and carefully treated Lu Chiyan’s injury.

• Pei Zeyan asked Qin Sili and Lu Chiyan about their matching split lips, and both blamed mosquitoes.
• Wen Zhao joked that some vicious mosquitoes could not be kept away with mosquito coils, prompting more teasing from the group.
• The group focused on preparing their variety-show acts instead of working for money.
• Qin Sili asked the driver to stop at a pharmacy and bought ointment for Lu Chiyan’s lip.
• Qin Sili put ointment on a cotton swab and asked Lu Chiyan to bring his face closer so he could apply it.

Lu Chiyan tried to avoid public speculation by applying his own ointment, but Qin Sili took it as a sign that Lu Chiyan was ashamed of him. After they reached the kindergarten and got out of view of the cameras, Qin Sili confronted Lu Chiyan about their relationship.

• Lu Chiyan declined Qin Sili’s help with the ointment because their actions were being livestreamed, and Qin Sili grew angry after hearing his thoughts.
• Qin Sili stayed silent during the drive to the kindergarten while Lu Chiyan felt uneasy beside him.
• In the camera-free changing room, Lu Chiyan asked Qin Sili if he was angry, and Qin Sili pinned him against the wall and asked whether Lu Chiyan was ashamed to be seen with him.
• Qin Sili demanded to know what their relationship was, and Lu Chiyan asked what Qin Sili thought would be appropriate.

Lu Chiyan doubted that Qin Sili truly loved him and worried their kiss had been a moment of madness. After Qin Sili kissed him again and told him he loved everything about him, Lu Chiyan asked him to date, and Qin Sili agreed.

• Lu Chiyan questioned whether Qin Sili's feelings were real and feared he might regret their kiss.
• Qin Sili kissed Lu Chiyan fiercely, then asked him to define their relationship.
• Lu Chiyan asked what Qin Sili liked about him, and Qin Sili said he loved everything about him.
• Lu Chiyan asked Qin Sili to date him, and Qin Sili agreed.

Lu Chiyan and Qin Sili emerged from the changing room after a long delay, prompting viewers and crew to speculate about their relationship. On the way back to the villa, Lu Chiyan let Qin Sili apply ointment, and their intimate exchange fueled even more speculation.

• Lu Chiyan told Qin Sili to stop kissing and pushed him to change clothes.
• Lu Chiyan and Qin Sili remained in the changing room for half an hour while viewers joked and speculated about what they were doing.
• Lu Chiyan and Qin Sili came out in new outfits, both looking slightly awkward as viewers noticed their red, swollen lips.
• The crew watched Lu Chiyan and Qin Sili with knowing smiles, while Lu Chiyan tried to ignore them.
• On the way back to the villa, Lu Chiyan let Qin Sili apply ointment and answered his question about whether it hurt.