Recaps

Shao Chongsi agreed to send someone to rescue Yunxi, making Gu Chengyuan suspect he still cared about him. At dinner, Shao Chongsi tried to explain that he had previously held back from exposing Yunxi because Chi Yining’s revelations had been more effective.

• Yunxi borrowed the cooking auntie’s phone and called Shao Chongsi for help, and Shao Chongsi agreed to send someone without bringing anyone extra.
• Gu Chengyuan recognized Yunxi’s voice and grew suspicious that Shao Chongsi might still be willing to help him.
• Yunxi returned the phone and happily went to put on makeup, convinced that Shao Chongsi still had feelings for him.
• Shao Chongsi realized Yunxi had fallen into his hands again, while Gu Chengyuan left without hearing his explanation.
• At dinner, Gu Chengyuan said Shao Chongsi’s cooking had room for improvement, and Shao Chongsi began explaining why he had not exposed Yunxi before.

Gu Chengyuan learned why Shao Chongsi had never managed to help Yunxi, while Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun decided to let Shao Chongsi have a chance to find him. Yunxi was abducted by Shao Chongsi’s bodyguards and sent toward Li Duo, leaving him convinced there had to be a misunderstanding.

• Shao Chongsi explained that Yunxi’s other enemies had repeatedly gotten to him first, and Gu Chengyuan asked where Yunxi would stay after being rescued.
• Shao Chongsi said he was sending Yunxi to Li Duo, who had been searching for him.
• Chi Yining asked Yan Guiyun whether they could find Yunxi, and Yan Guiyun suggested they give Shao Chongsi a chance.
• Yunxi waited for Shao Chongsi to take him somewhere safe, but bodyguards grabbed him, bound him, and forced him into a minivan.
• A bodyguard told Yunxi that Young Master Shao was sending him to Li Duo, leaving Yunxi shocked and certain there was a misunderstanding.

Shao Chongsi sent Yunxi, bound inside a frog costume, back to Li Duo in Jiang City. Li Duo recognized Yunxi, rejected his pleas, and ordered him sent to the Gold-Filled Gate Club, while Chi Yining learned what Shao Chongsi had done.

• Shao Chongsi's bodyguards told Yunxi that Shao Chongsi knew about his lies and ordered him to behave and stay alive with Li Duo.
• The bodyguards disguised themselves, stuffed Yunxi into a frog costume, and delivered him to Li Duo in Jiang City.
• Li Duo kicked the costume, uncovered Yunxi, and reacted with disgust when he saw Yunxi's face.
• Yunxi begged Li Duo to release him, but Li Duo ordered his bodyguards to take him to the Gold-Filled Gate Club.
• Chi Yining learned that Shao Chongsi had returned Yunxi to Li Duo, and noted that Jiang City's broken surveillance made it hard to identify local abusers.

Yan Guiyun and Chi Yining spent the night together, leaving Chi Yining embarrassed by Yan Guiyun’s teasing the next morning. They joked about Yan Guiyun’s flaws and how he would have reacted to Chi Yining when they first met.

• Yan Guiyun asked Chi Yining if he wanted to bathe before they got ready for Friday, and Chi Yining grew shy as their licensed driving day approached.
• After Chi Yining finished bathing, Yan Guiyun brought out herbal balm and a piece of warm jade, then pulled him back when he tried to escape.
• The next morning, Chi Yining complained that Yan Guiyun had embarrassed him because their place was not soundproof.
• Yan Guiyun teased Chi Yining and promised they would wait until they got home to put their fighting skills to use.
• Chi Yining asked whether Yan Guiyun would have liked him if he had been picking at his feet when they met, and Yan Guiyun laughed and said he would have taken a picture.

Yan Guiyun and Chi Yining left for the Yan Family after Bai Chongxuan revealed they had married, while Wang Xinyang worried about how Chi Yining would be treated. Chen Shiyu learned that his family and Li Qingmi’s had a notarized betrothal agreement, but he refused to believe it was valid.

• Yan Guiyun left two bodyguards to tend the vegetable patch before driving away with Chi Yining in a Maybach.
• Bai Chongxuan told Wang Xinyang that Yan Guiyun had shown him their marriage certificates, and Wang worried that the Yan Family might mistreat Chi Yining.
• Bai Chongxuan reassured Wang about the Yan Family and admitted he had run with Wang because he liked him.
• Wang told Bai Chongxuan that his mother had also wanted Chi Yining as a daughter-in-law, and they laughed together.
• Chen Shiyu nearly fell after walking with his eyes closed, and Li Qingmi caught him and claimed their families had a notarized betrothal agreement.
• Chen Shiyu insisted the agreement was invalid and warned Li Qingmi not to trick him.

Chen Shiyu reflected on his feelings for Li Qingmi and the reasons he had been wavering, while Li Qingmi made him breakfast. Nearby, Gu Chengyuan and Shao Chongsi discussed the couple and Gu Chengyuan’s upcoming commercial shoot.

• Li Qingmi told Chen Shiyu he had known about his feelings from the start, but had been waiting to see whether Chen Shiyu was serious.
• Chen Shiyu realized Li Qingmi was the person he loved most and recalled learning about Li Qingmi’s academic achievements, family company, and laboratory.
• Li Qingmi left to make Chen Shiyu breakfast as Chen Shiyu blamed him for making him long for more intimacy.
• Gu Chengyuan overheard Li Qingmi and Chen Shiyu’s conversation and told Shao Chongsi he had never looked into the guests’ backgrounds.
• Gu Chengyuan said he might shoot a commercial in a few days, and Shao Chongsi offered to accompany him as his assistant.

Chi Yining woke sore and exhausted after the powerful incense led to a passionate night with Yan Guiyun. They settled on a week of rest, and Yan Guiyun teased Chi Yining into calling him “hubby” again.

• Chi Yining woke up aching, blamed Yan Guiyun for going too far, and demanded half a month off.
• Yan Guiyun apologized and explained that the incense had been stronger than he expected, then bargained Chi Yining down to a week of rest.
• Chi Yining agreed to rest for a week and asked for food because he was hungry.
• Yan Guiyun picked Chi Yining up, and Chi Yining affectionately called him “hubby.”
• Yan Guiyun delighted in the endearment and asked Chi Yining to say it a hundred times a day.

Chi Yining tried to remember a plot point about Gu Chengyuan facing danger at work and discussed letting him continue working so a lawyer could get closer to him. The conversation with Yan Guiyun turned into teasing about their roles as husband and wife, ending with Chi Yining insisting on examining Yan Guiyun’s hemorrhoids.

• Chi Yining asked Gu Chengyuan whether he had any upcoming work, then realized he could not remember the details of a plot point about Gu Chengyuan encountering danger.
• Chi Yining asked Yan Guiyun for information, and Yan Guiyun suggested letting Gu Chengyuan work as usual so a lawyer could get a chance to shine.
• Chi Yining remarked that Gu Chengyuan and the lawyer had made little progress despite getting along sweetly.
• Chi Yining joked about going to work at Yan Guiyun’s corporation so he could call Yan Guiyun his wife and take the dominant role at home.
• Yan Guiyun claimed he had hemorrhoids, and Chi Yining got up to examine him and prescribe medicine.

Yan Guiyun got Chi Yining to call him “hubby,” while Yunxi grew increasingly resentful as he waited tables and considered escaping. Mo Li told Chai Yi he wanted to go to the movies, but Chai Yi barely paid attention.

• Yan Guiyun kept calling Chi Yining “hubby” until Chi Yining gave in and agreed to call him that.
• Yan Guiyun called Chi Yining “wifey” and said he loved him, and Chi Yining returned the sentiment while calling him Xiaoyun.
• Yunxi resented Li Duo for making him wait tables and insulting his appearance, then resolved to find a way to escape.
• Chai Yi noticed Mo Li dressed unusually revealingly at home and wondered why he had been acting strangely.
• Mo Li said he wanted to go to the movies and that he had stopped associating with his former friends, but Chai Yi told him to go ahead without looking up from his sand art.

Chai Yi agreed to go out with Mo Li, and their movie plans turned into an unexpectedly easygoing date. After Mo Li bought tickets for the wrong cinema branch, Chai Yi offered to watch a movie at his nearby apartment and suggested they get hot pot first.

• Chai Yi agreed to accompany Mo Li to the movies and told him to buy tickets.
• Chai Yi and Mo Li dressed casually and headed out together.
• Mo Li realized he had bought tickets for the wrong branch, but Chai Yi calmly suggested buying tickets for the next showing.
• Chai Yi offered to watch a new movie in his apartment's media room, and Mo Li accepted.
• Chai Yi suggested they eat hot pot before returning to his apartment, surprising Mo Li with his easygoing attitude.

Chai Yi took Mo Li out for hot pot, then brought him to his apartment, where Mo Li learned there was a dance studio nearby. After three days away, they returned to the dating show, where Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun checked on their growing melon seedlings.

• Mo Li surprised Chai Yi with a crowd singing him a birthday song, then enjoyed the hot pot and a noodle-pulling performance.
• Chai Yi drove Mo Li to his apartment, where Mo Li noticed the boxing equipment and pointed out that there was no dance studio.
• Chai Yi told Mo Li that there was actually a dance studio, and Mo Li reacted with surprise.
• After three days away, the guests returned to the dating show, where Chi Yining examined the melon seedlings.
• Yan Guiyun teased Chi Yining about the seedlings and reminded him to call him hubby when Chi Yining's feet went numb.

Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun teased each other about their relationship while recovering at the Crimson Flame Courtyard, unaware they were surrounded by onlookers. Chi fled inside when Bai Chongxuan called out, while Wang Xinyang refused Bai’s request to call him his wife on the show.

• Chi Yining joked that he would one day resist Yan Guiyun’s tricks, and Yan Guiyun teased him about his persistence.
• Bai Chongxuan called to Yan Guiyun from a nearby courtyard and asked about his neck injury, drawing the attention of people at the windows.
• Yan Guiyun urged Chi Yining to go inside, and Chi ran barefoot to the sofa, leaving his muddy slippers outside.
• Bai Chongxuan asked Wang Xinyang for hickeys, but Wang persuaded him against it by warning that others might have indecent thoughts.
• Bai Chongxuan asked to call Wang Xinyang his wife on the show, and Wang refused, citing harm to public morals and young people.

Chi Yining worried that the marks on Yan Guiyun’s neck would expose their relationship on the dating show, then joked about blowing up the courtyard to keep anyone else from pairing with Yan Guiyun. Chen Shiyu and Li Qingmi arrived and teased them, leaving Chi Yining to abandon his demolition plan.

• Bai Chongxuan apologized to Wang Xinyang after Wang Xinyang reproached him for not behaving.
• Chi Yining worried about Yan Guiyun’s neck marks and suggested quitting the dating show, but Yan Guiyun warned that the director might find him another partner.
• Chi Yining said he would stop anyone from getting close to Yan Guiyun and considered blowing up the courtyard, which he said was jointly theirs.
• Chen Shiyu and Li Qingmi arrived, and Chen Shiyu asked Chi Yining not to blow him up.
• Chi Yining promised to stop planning explosions, while Li Qingmi and Yan Guiyun joked about the weather and demolition.

Li Qingmi and Chen Shiyu visited Yan Guiyun to ask about their marriage contract and then decided to hang out. More friends arrived, and Mo Li suggested that everyone play Werewolf.

• Li Qingmi told Yan Guiyun that he and Chen Shiyu wanted to confirm whether their marriage contract was real, and Yan Guiyun advised them to ask their parents.
• Li Qingmi said they had also come to hang out, and Chi Yining pointed out that the open door was letting out the air-conditioning.
• An Yan and Hu Bing arrived, and Hu Bing mistook Yan Guiyun's neck mark for an injury.
• Chai Yi and Mo Li arrived, and Mo Li suggested that the group play Werewolf.

Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun dominated a game with the other guests while Chai Yi judged. Meanwhile, Feng Louyu woke up after missing the gathering and started a livestream selling watermelons with Qin Shijing, which ended with Qin kissing him on the cheek.

• Chi Yining asked Mo Li to explain the game, then he and Yan Guiyun won more than a dozen rounds.
• Chen Shiyu praised Chi Yining and suggested that he try an escape room.
• Feng Louyu slept until afternoon and learned that he had missed the guests gathering.
• Feng Louyu spotted crew members selling watermelons and decided to livestream with Qin Shijing.
• Feng Louyu and Qin Shijing took over the crew's stall and began selling watermelons on camera.
• Qin Shijing unexpectedly kissed Feng Louyu on the cheek during the livestream.

Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun watched the dating-show livestream, where Director Feng sold watermelons alongside Qin Shijing. When a handsome driver asked for Feng’s WeChat, Feng revealed he had a boyfriend and redirected him to Qin Shijing.

• Yan Guiyun cut Chi Yining another piece of watermelon while warning him not to eat too much.
• Chi Yining had Yan Guiyun cast the dating-show livestream onto a screen.
• Hu Bing and An Yan watched Director Feng and Qin Shijing sell watermelons by the roadside.
• A handsome driver offered to buy their entire load and asked Director Feng for his WeChat.
• Director Feng said they could only sell two watermelons per person and told the driver to add his boyfriend, Qin Shijing, instead.

Chi Yining planned a romantic piano piece for Yan Guiyun while Yan Guiyun tried to persuade Yan Zhibei to help with work. Yan Zhibei learned that Yan Guiyun knew he was the author Tornado Going Against the Current and bargained over how long he would have to help.

• An Yan told Hu Bing that Director Qin had directed Apocalypse Restart and Parallel Division, and Chi Yining reflected on how quickly he and Yan Guiyun had married.
• Chi Yining decided to write Yan Guiyun a piano piece as a romantic gesture.
• Yan Guiyun messaged Yan Zhibei, urging him to return and help with work by offering to fund a television adaptation of Water of Dragon Nether.
• Yan Zhibei accused Yan Guiyun of investigating him after learning that he knew his pen name, Tornado Going Against the Current.
• Yan Zhibei negotiated for a shorter work commitment, but Yan Guiyun refused his offer of 45 days and returned to work.

Yan Guiyun arranged for Yan Zhibei to take over his work while he went on leave, and Mei Heqing negotiated an additional stretch of work from her husband. The next morning, Chi Yining woke in a panic after discovering Yan Guiyun had left a painful mark on his chest.

• Yan Zhibei agreed to serve as acting executive president for Yan Guiyun for 55 days in exchange for two billion.
• Mei Heqing offered Yan Zhibei a further 45 days of work, and he happily accepted.
• Yan Guiyun organized his documents, delegated much of his authority to Yan Zhibei, and sent the executives an appointment letter.
• Yan Falls employees celebrated the news that Yan Guiyun was taking leave, while he finished his work late into the night.
• Yan Guiyun returned to bed and bit and sucked Chi Yining's earlobe, leaving a dark purple mark.
• Chi Yining woke the next morning, found a painful tooth mark on his chest, and panicked as Yan Guiyun pulled him back into bed.

Yan Guiyun and Chi Yining faced Yan Zhibei’s teasing after their intimate reunion, then Yan Guiyun took his personal seal from him. Meanwhile, Shao Chongsi secretly followed Gu Chengyuan to work and pretended to be his bodyguard, while Gu Chengyuan remained unaware that Shao Chongsi worked through the night after he fell asleep.

• Yan Zhibei arrived and admonished Yan Guiyun and Chi Yining for their visible love bites.
• Yan Guiyun asked Yan Zhibei for the item he had brought, and they went to the study to exchange Yan Guiyun’s personal seal.
• Shao Chongsi disguised himself and slipped into Gu Chengyuan’s bodyguard detail without telling him.
• Gu Chengyuan called Shao Chongsi into the dressing room to attend to him, while Shao Chongsi watched him closely.
• Shao Chongsi secretly worked at triple speed after Gu Chengyuan fell asleep, then acted carefree the next day.

Gu Chengyuan finished a commercial shoot and invited Shao Chongsi, disguised as his bodyguard, to eat with him. He had already recognized Shao Chongsi and watched to see how he would manage the meal while wearing sunglasses.

• Shao Chongsi watched Gu Chengyuan during his makeup and began excusing his cold public manner as exhaustion.
• Gu Chengyuan told the distracted makeup artist to focus, while she privately imagined a romance between him and Shao Chongsi.
• After the shoot, Gu Chengyuan called Shao Chongsi over to eat, and the other bodyguards realized he had joined them to stay close to their young master.
• Shao Chongsi followed Gu Chengyuan into a private dining room, believing his sunglasses concealed his identity.
• Gu Chengyuan placed braised pork, Shao Chongsi's least favorite food, in his bowl while waiting to see how he would eat with his sunglasses on.

Gu Chengyuan flirted with Shao Chongsi while failing to recognize him in disguise as a mute bodyguard. Shao Chongsi played along, discovering that his romantic rival was himself as Gu Chengyuan offered to keep him as a lover.

• Gu Chengyuan placed braised pork in Shao Chongsi’s bowl, leaving Shao Chongsi wondering how he knew his favorite dish.
• Gu Chengyuan teased Shao Chongsi about being a handsome, mute bodyguard and suspected he might be a fan.
• Shao Chongsi signed that Gu Chengyuan was his idol but insisted he was not a sasaeng fan.
• Gu Chengyuan proposed that Shao Chongsi become his lover and offered to pay him one billion a year.
• Shao Chongsi accepted without hesitation, and Gu Chengyuan wondered aloud what a top was supposed to do.

Gu Chengyuan took Shao Chongsi to a hotel and asked him to be a stand-in for a handsome, sharp-tongued friend. Shao Chongsi revealed himself, kissed Gu Chengyuan, and demanded compensation for playing along with his act, leaving Gu Chengyuan flustered by how quickly the situation had turned physical.

• Gu Chengyuan brought Shao Chongsi to a hotel suite despite Shao Chongsi's silent objections.
• A receptionist recognized Shao Chongsi and realized that he had come to the hotel with Film Emperor Gu Chengyuan.
• Gu Chengyuan explained that Shao Chongsi resembled a friend and asked whether he would be willing to act as that friend's stand-in.
• Shao Chongsi revealed himself, threw Gu Chengyuan onto the bed, and kissed him.
• Shao Chongsi said he wanted compensation for playing along with Gu Chengyuan's act, while Gu Chengyuan told him to shower first.

Chai Yi and Mo Li unexpectedly took a cameraman on an early-morning climb up Little Fragrant Mountain, where Chai Yi looked after the tired Mo Li. The chapter left them resting together on a bench, holding hands for the first time since they grew up.

• Shao Chongsi left Gu Chengyuan in silence, and Gu Chengyuan hurried to close the curtains, muttering that he had gone too far.
• Chai Yi and Mo Li set out to climb Little Fragrant Mountain at dawn and brought along a cameraman for a livestream.
• After half an hour, Mo Li fell behind and regretted not bringing trekking poles, while Chai Yi offered him water from his backpack.
• Chai Yi reassured Mo Li that he had packed extra water, and Mo Li wondered how much carrying it all was tiring him.
• Chai Yi took Mo Li by the hand and led him to a nearby bench to rest.

Chi Yining saw Chai Yi carry Mo Li back from an outing and learned that the pair had grown unexpectedly close. At lunch, Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun reaffirmed their relationship while trading banter with Bai Chongxuan and Wang Xinyang, and the dating show’s livestream remained popular despite the directors’ antics.

• Chi Yining spotted Chai Yi carrying Mo Li back and asked Yan Guiyun how their relationship had progressed so quickly.
• Yan Guiyun took Chi Yining downstairs, where Bai Chongxuan and Wang Xinyang had arrived with a cake for lunch.
• Bai Chongxuan teased Chi Yining about his marriage, and Yan Guiyun and Chi Yining made clear they intended to stay together.
• Bai Chongxuan asked Yan Guiyun to teach him cooking, but Yan Guiyun refused and challenged him to cook well enough to earn a grading.
• Chi Yining checked the dating show's livestream and found that its popularity remained steady even with the two directors putting on a show.

Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun shared painful memories while planning to write a song together, and Chi Yining wondered why his grandfather had prepared him for transmigration. Yan Guiyun suggested that Chi Yining might originally have come from this world.

• Chi Yining watched Feng Louyu and Director Qin build a Lego aircraft carrier and searched for clues about their relationship.
• Chi Yining invited Yan Guiyun to write a song with him, offering to compose the music while Yan Guiyun wrote the lyrics.
• Yan Guiyun recounted how his kidnapping as a child led him to train himself to survive and escape future abductions.
• Chi Yining recalled his own childhood trauma and wondered why his grandfather had anticipated his transmigration and taught him survival skills.
• Yan Guiyun proposed that Chi Yining might originally have come from this world.