Recaps

Chi Yining learned that Yan Guiyun had collected accounts of people who seemed to return from death or another world because he feared Chi Yining might disappear. Yan Guiyun remained anxious despite the stories’ reassuring outcomes, and Chi Yining continued reading the file, asking why the accounts could not be found online.

• Chi Yining questioned Yan Guiyun’s conclusion, and Yan Guiyun showed him a file of strange tales, including an account of a man who claimed to have expelled another soul from his body.
• Yan Guiyun explained that he had gathered the accounts because he feared Chi Yining might disappear and wanted to know whether people like him could keep living.
• Yan Guiyun said the people in the accounts had settled into contented lives, but admitted he was still afraid of forces beyond his control.
• Chi Yining reassured Yan Guiyun that he would not disappear as long as Yan Guiyun loved him, then continued reading the stories.
• Chi Yining read about people who had returned to ancient times and asked Yan Guiyun why their stories could not be found online.

Chi Yining told Yan Guiyun about his life before eighteen and the teachers who had repeatedly moved into the neighboring courtyard to care for him. He suspected someone had protected him in secret, but the truth about his past and the people around him remained uncertain.

• Yan Guiyun said he had gathered accounts of transmigration from local gazetteers and strange-tale records, then suggested Chi Yining's mother might know about his biological parents.
• Chi Yining said he did not want to ask about his biological parents and described the memories he had of his life before eighteen.
• Chi Yining recalled that his grandmother had sent him to welcome a teacher next door, who taught him skills and hobbies before moving away without saying goodbye.
• Chi Yining recounted how other kind teachers later moved into the courtyard, brought him food, and left without explanation.
• Yan Guiyun wiped away Chi Yining's tears as Chi Yining wondered whether someone had protected him and whether people in Hai City revolved around him.

Yan Guiyun comforted Chi Yining and suggested asking their mothers about his past, while privately noting how many people had favored Chi Yining even before his name was cleared. He left Chi Yining blushing by trying to turn their conversation toward a bath together.

• Yan Guiyun held Chi Yining and promised they could ask Mom about what had happened to him when they returned to the old residence.
• Chi Yining refused to act cute to make the family reveal the truth, and Yan Guiyun admitted he wanted to see him do it.
• Yan Guiyun reflected that he could not uncover Chi Yining’s hidden past and suspected Murong Xue or Yan Ting might know.
• Yan Guiyun observed that the dating-show guests’ parents had favored Chi Yining even before his name was cleared and called him the biggest winner.
• Yan Guiyun teased Chi Yining about bathing together, and Chi Yining blushed and told him to be serious.

Chi Yining insisted on trying to top Yan Guiyun, while Jia Mingchuan finally confessed his feelings to Su Ziqian and secured his agreement to become a couple. The chapter ended with Jia Mingchuan asking his new boyfriend for a wish.

• Chi Yining confidently told Yan Guiyun he wanted to try topping him, and Yan Guiyun struggled to refuse.
• Su Ziqian asked Jia Mingchuan to massage his back, and Jia Mingchuan got a nosebleed while staring at him.
• Su Ziqian teased Jia Mingchuan for holding back, and Jia Mingchuan said he had been waiting for Su Ziqian to agree to be with him.
• Su Ziqian agreed to be Jia Mingchuan's boyfriend, and Jia Mingchuan embraced him and asked for a wish.

Su Ziqian agreed to Jia Mingchuan’s request to wear ethnic clothes for a photo shoot, then told him the small, everyday things he wanted them to share as a couple. Jia Mingchuan promised to do them and blushed when Su Ziqian kissed his cheek as a reward.

• Jia Mingchuan asked Su Ziqian to wear ethnic clothes so he could take pictures of him.
• Su Ziqian agreed and teased Jia Mingchuan about remembering Bai Chongxuan’s appearance in women’s clothes.
• Su Ziqian reminded Jia Mingchuan that they had only just gotten together and listed things he wanted them to do together, including buying flowers, running in the morning, and making breakfast.
• Jia Mingchuan said he wanted every second with Su Ziqian and promised to fulfill his requests.
• Su Ziqian kissed Jia Mingchuan on the cheek, making him blush.

The production team assigned the guests a collaborative wood-carving task, due by 8 p.m. the day after tomorrow, with viewers voting on the finished pieces. As the guests headed back to their courtyards, An Yan and Hu Bing noticed that Brother Chuan was holding Ziqian’s hand, while An Yan remained frustrated by his lack of progress with Hu Bing.

• The production team announced that each pair had to complete a wood carving by 8 p.m. the day after tomorrow, and that the winning group would receive a secret prize.
• Chi Yining realized the activity schedule had changed and thought the deadline would be tight for anyone who was not an expert carver.
• An Yan and Hu Bing noticed Brother Chuan holding Ziqian’s hand as they returned to their courtyard.
• Hu Bing wondered whether they had missed a major turn in the relationships, while An Yan reflected that he had made no progress with Hu Bing.
• Hu Bing looked around and finally turned his gaze to Chi Yining’s face.

Jia Mingchuan pulled Su Ziqian away after Wang Xinyang’s compliments made him feel jealous, while Bai Chongxuan admitted he felt the same watching them talk. Back at the courtyards, Chi Yining began carving indoors, and Yan Zhibei was left handling paperwork at the company under a contract with Yan Guiyun.

• Bai Chongxuan teased Jia Mingchuan about saying he would leave the dating show single, and Jia Mingchuan challenged him to trust his own past words.
• Wang Xinyang greeted Su Ziqian and praised how handsome, refined, and helpful he had been when they were younger.
• Jia Mingchuan pulled Su Ziqian away, claiming the sun made him dizzy, while Wang Xinyang and Bai Chongxuan left together after Bai admitted he was jealous.
• Chi Yining had the carving supplies moved into the living room so he could work in the air conditioning, and Yan Guiyun watched him fondly.
• At the Southern Mountain Group headquarters, Yan Zhibei complained about the work, but Special Assistant Xu reminded him that breaking his contract with Yan Guiyun would cost two billion and coaxed him with milk tea and cake.

Yan Zhibei worked late and complained to Mei Heqing, who reassured him while secretly subduing a sniper targeting his family. After identifying the attacker as a former Chi Family subordinate, Mei Heqing called the police, and Yan Guiyun sent her money to buy his brother something nourishing.

• Yan Zhibei worked through the night and called Mei Heqing to complain about his job.
• Mei Heqing pinned a sniper down and destroyed his rifle after he tried to target Yan Zhibei.
• Mei Heqing recognized a spider-shaped scar on the sniper's earlobe and suspected he was a former subordinate of the Chi Family.
• The sniper claimed Chi Yining was the young master and threatened that he and the Yan Family would die.
• Mei Heqing ordered Special Assistant Ning to call the police, while Yan Guiyun transferred one billion to her for Yan Zhibei.

The couples worked on woodcarving projects, with Mei Heqing securing another 500 million from Yan Guiyun and Bai Chongxuan planning an easier chibi sculpture. An Yan and Hu Bing watched carving tutorials together, while Jia Mingchuan showed Su Ziqian that carving was one of his many skills.

• Mei Heqing persuaded Yan Guiyun to give her another 500 million, bringing the amount taken from his account to 1.5 billion.
• Chi Yining asked Yan Guiyun to help measure pieces of wood, and he hid the reason for his distress.
• Bai Chongxuan admitted he could not finish a full-sized wooden Xiaoyou in three days, so Wang Xinyang agreed to a chibi version and tied up his hair.
• An Yan and Hu Bing looked up carving tutorials together after Hu Bing found the tools confusing.
• Jia Mingchuan told Su Ziqian that carving was his forte and joked that he would become a hacker if he knew computers.

Su Ziqian reflected on his reunion with Jia Mingchuan and their years apart while the couples took part in a carving activity. Gu Chengyuan turned Shao Chongsi into a “mute” stand-in, and Chai Yi quickly carved a figure resembling Mo Li.

• Jia Mingchuan stopped Su Ziqian from handling knives and offered to get him fruit, while Su Ziqian recalled punishing Curly and kicked Jia Mingchuan over their eight years apart.
• Gu Chengyuan put sunglasses on Shao Chongsi and told him to stay quiet, prompting Shao Chongsi to sign that he could not carve.
• Chai Yi picked up a knife and carved a wooden figure with Mo Li’s face, leaving Mo Li bewildered.

Mo Li and Chai Yi recalled how Chai Yi had learned wood carving through Mo Li’s abandoned hobbies while they chatted on a livestream. In Jiang City, Li Duo recovered Yunxi’s money and declared him free, but Yunxi was abducted again after returning to the city.

• Mo Li asked Chai Yi when he had learned to carve wood, and Chai Yi said Mo Li had once gotten bored of carving.
• Mo Li admitted he did not remember, while Chai Yi continued carving a figure of him.
• Yunxi got the police to take him from Li Duo’s club, but Li Duo told the officers Yunxi could leave once he repaid the money he owed.
• After Yunxi paid back Li Duo’s 200 million, Li Duo gave him a bank card with 500 yuan left and declared him free.
• Yunxi returned to Jiang City, where Cen Min’s abductors seized him near the train station.

Shao Chongsi's men tracked Yunxi back to the Capital, where the Cen Family and other rivals abducted him again. Meanwhile, Gu Chengyuan struggled with his awkward feelings for Shao Chongsi, and Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun prepared to carve an oversized piece of red sandalwood together.

• Shao Chongsi told his bodyguards to keep watching Yunxi after they reported his whereabouts.
• Gu Chengyuan recalled the kiss, worried about their relationship, and avoided discussing the dating manual Shao Chongsi had found.
• Gu Chengyuan rejected the available wood and asked his assistant to arrange more.
• Chi Yining asked Yan Guiyun for a square block of wood about half a person's height, and Yan Guiyun had a piece of red sandalwood taller than a person delivered.
• Chi Yining rolled his eyes at Yan Guiyun's extravagant choice, then discussed what to carve with him.

The seven teams’ wood carvings went viral, and Crimson Flame Courtyard’s Azure Dragon received the most praise. After voting ended, Chi Yining saw the super grand prize and his excitement disappeared.

• Yan Guiyun told Chi Yining that Grandpa Yan would like any gift Chi Yining made, and Chi Yining came up with a carving idea.
• The production team posted all seven teams’ carvings, including Crimson Flame Courtyard’s lifelike Azure Dragon and Chi Yi’s team’s Four Divine Beasts.
• Viewers praised the carvings online, and experts reposted the entries with critiques that put the Azure Dragon far ahead.
• Voting ended after one day, and Chi Yining’s smile vanished when he saw the super grand prize at Crimson Flame Courtyard.

Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun decided to enter a costly competition with a hundred-million-yuan prize, and Chi Yining planned to use it to draw out potential enemies. After a stormy night together, Chi Yining woke sore and suspected Yan Guiyun had arranged the weather.

• Yan Guiyun showed Chi Yining two competition entry cards, which cost five million yuan each, and explained that first place won one hundred million yuan.
• Chi Yining decided he and Yan Guiyun would enter, partly to avoid wasting the production team's ten-million-yuan expense and partly to draw out prey.
• Yan Guiyun agreed to accompany Chi Yining and resolved to protect him.
• After a stormy night, Chi Yining woke sore and glared at the refreshed Yan Guiyun, suspecting he had summoned the storm.
• Yan Guiyun offered to carry Chi Yining to wash up and gently tried to coax him.

Bai Chongxuan reassured jealous Wang Xinyang that his call with his cousin was strictly about work, while Wang reflected on his robotics research and family expectations. Bai Chongxuan then warned him that unusually powerful attackers might be targeting them and urged him not to go out alone.

• Wang Xinyang grew jealous after Bai Chongxuan spent half an hour talking to his cousin, and Bai Chongxuan explained that their conversation had been about work.
• Bai Chongxuan promised Wang Xinyang that he was faithful and that Wang was the first person he had fallen for.
• Wang Xinyang thought about his mother's expectations and the surgical robot project that could earn him funding for a research team.
• Bai Chongxuan touched Wang Xinyang beneath his shirt, then asked him to tell him whenever he went out.
• Bai Chongxuan warned Wang Xinyang that a recent group of attackers was unusually capable and said they should be careful.

Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun tied for first in the competition at Longming Water Crazy Park, while their friends waited at the hotel as the Chi Family’s former subordinates watched from nearby. The chapter left Chi Yining noticing that several people were distracted because they missed their absent partners.

• Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun broke the obstacle-course record and tied for first in the knowledge competition, each winning two hundred million.
• Chi Yining asked Yan Guiyun to have someone watch over the fans as they left, and Yan Guiyun agreed.
• Chen Shiyu quietly asked Chi Yining what Yan Guiyun had sent Li Qingmi to do, and Chi Yining teased him about missing Li Qingmi.
• Wang Xinyang felt dejected about being assigned to the vulnerable group while others led teams.
• Gu Chengyuan came to cheer Chi Yining on and wanted to talk to the dazed Shao Chongsi but hesitated.
• Chi Yining noticed that Chen Shiyu, Mo Li, Wang Xinyang, and Gu Chengyuan all seemed distracted.

Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun prepared to confront the Chi Family’s former retainers at Dragon Cry Building while their allies took ambush positions. After a blade flew at them in the lobby, they split up to leave through the side doors, and Bai Chongxuan’s squad moved in.

• Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun left the others upstairs and went to the first-floor lobby, where Chi Yining sensed danger.
• Yan Guiyun and Chi Yining armed themselves as their allies coordinated over a live call and prepared to ambush the attackers.
• The Chi Family’s former retainers attacked as Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun stepped toward the main entrance, sending a blade between them.
• Yan Guiyun and Chi Yining dodged behind the doors and headed for separate side exits.
• Bai Chongxuan told his squad to protect themselves and leave some attackers alive.

Chi Yining and the other squads fought the Chi Family’s forces at the Dragon Cry Building and the mountain perimeter, using quick takedowns and gas to subdue their opponents. The fighting continued as Chai Yi’s team overwhelmed another group of Chi Family elites.

• Bai Chongxuan’s family fighters advanced while Jia Mingchuan and Su Ziqian joined forces and ordered their bodyguards into action.
• Chi Yining knocked two Chi Family members unconscious, suspected they had taken Demonization Pills, and ordered his squad to cuff them.
• Yan Guiyun rapidly took down drugged opponents on the first floor of the Dragon Cry Building as his squad watched.
• Li Qingmi’s squad used gas to incapacitate the Chi Family elites at the mountain wall, then tied them up and went to support the other squads.
• Chai Yi and his elite squad defeated the Chi Family fighters, leaving many with broken bones or knocked-out teeth.

Chai Yi, An Yan, and the other wealthy contestants used their strength and expensive equipment to deal with their opponents during the competition. Shao Chongsi avoided fighting to protect his face, but a Chi Family man attacked him with a knife.

• Chai Yi knocked out the Chi Family men who challenged him, while his bodyguards stopped the last two from escaping.
• An Yan's family used gold-thread nets to capture their opponents, and Li Qingmi admired the costly equipment.
• Jia Mingchuan and Su Ziqian stayed out of the fight as their teams faced a smaller group, and a bodyguard knocked out a man who interrupted their affectionate moment.
• Shao Chongsi dodged a Chi Family man's punch and put away his phone, but the man charged at him with a knife, threatening to disfigure him.

Shao Chongsi and Bai Chongxuan subdued the Chi Family elites who attacked them. Bai Chongxuan learned that Second Uncle Chi had ordered Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun killed, but the attackers passed out before revealing where he was hiding.

• Shao Chongsi kicked down an attacker, slashed his cheek, and used a stun baton to knock out three more Chi Family elites.
• Bai Chongxuan beat the remaining Chi Family elites and demanded to know why they had targeted Chi Yining.
• Bai Chongxuan whipped the leader until he confessed that Second Uncle Chi had ordered them to kill Yan Guiyun and Chi Yining and bring back Chi Yining's head.
• The leader said Second Uncle Chi controlled their identity documents and that they had been fitted with listening devices, but he passed out before he could explain more.
• The other attackers also lost consciousness, and Bai Chongxuan called for an ambulance.

Chi Yining found signs that the fallen attackers had been trained and sent by Second Uncle Chi, while Yan Guiyun confronted a blue-robed assailant who attacked him. Yan Guiyun crushed the attacker’s assault and left him bloodied, warning that he would be sent to prison.

• Chi Yining searched the fallen attackers and found old-fashioned phones and mottled scars, concluding they seemed prepared to die and might be only one group sent by Second Uncle Chi.
• Yan Guiyun found Chi Yining after the attackers had fallen and told him the situation was different from what they had expected.
• Yan Guiyun sent Chi Yining upstairs while he arranged to deal with the attackers.
• A blue-robed man appeared and attacked Yan Guiyun with a flying needle, then tried to tear out his heart.
• Yan Guiyun caught and broke the blue-robed man’s wrist, kicked him into a wall, and broke his nose with a punch.
• Yan Guiyun warned the blue-robed man that people who acted arrogantly before him ended up in prison.

After Yan Guiyun and the others captured the enemies hiding in the hotel, the guests reunited with their partners upstairs. Chi Yining watched the couples seek each other out and ended the chapter delighted by the affectionate reunions.

• Yan Guiyun's bodyguards pinned down the last man in green when he tried to attack Yan Guiyun with a dagger.
• The guests returned to Longming Hotel and discovered that nearly half the enemies had been hiding inside, including more than fifty people Yan Guiyun had captured.
• Chen Shiyu asked Li Qingmi for water, and Bai Chongxuan teased him for really wanting to say that he missed Li Qingmi.
• Chi Yining told Shao Chongsi that Gu Chengyuan was in room three and pointed An Yan toward the person he was looking for.
• Bai Chongxuan asked Wang Xinyang to shower with him, and Wang Xinyang agreed while Chi Yining happily watched them.

After the group returned, Jia Mingchuan and Su Ziqian grew more intimate, while Chai Yi reflected on his feelings for Wang Xinyang and encountered Mo Li. At dinner, Yan Guiyun announced that he and Chi Yining had registered their marriage, startling the guests.

• Jia Mingchuan pinned Su Ziqian against a wall and kissed him passionately after they returned to their room.
• Yan Guiyun teased Chai Yi about Wang Xinyang, and Chai Yi said he had found a way out of what had been troubling him.
• Mo Li saw Chai Yi in the elevator lobby and hurried back to the top-floor hall, while Chai Yi followed him in silence.
• Yan Guiyun treated everyone to dinner and announced that he and Chi Yining had registered their marriage the previous week.
• Chen Shiyu reacted in shock, while Li Qingmi congratulated Yan Guiyun and Chi Yining on their marriage.

Yan Guiyun reassured Gu Chengyuan and Hu Bing of his devotion to Chi Yining, then revealed that Bai Chongxuan and his partner had registered their marriage. After the gathering, Chai Yi flirted with Mo Li at the pool and invited him to touch his body.

• Gu Chengyuan asked Yan Guiyun whether he could love Chi Yining forever, and Yan Guiyun confidently promised that he could.
• Gu Chengyuan wished Yan Guiyun and Chi Yining a lifetime together, and Hu Bing asked Yan Guiyun to take good care of Chi Yining.
• Yan Guiyun announced that Bai Chongxuan and his partner had registered their marriage, causing an uproar among the guests.
• Yan Guiyun and Chi Yining returned to their room and played games after the meal, while Yan Guiyun later gave the police leads for their investigation.
• Mo Li watched Chai Yi at the pool, and Chai Yi invited him to touch his body.
• Mo Li accepted Chai Yi's invitation and eagerly touched him.

Mo Li learned from Chen Shiyu that Chai Yi had bought him an expensive necklace as a birthday present years ago, though Mo Li did not remember receiving it. Meanwhile, Chen Shiyu and Li Qingmi left the pool together after Li Qingmi teased him about flirting with others.

• Chai Yi stopped Mo Li from touching him and went swimming while Mo Li joined Chen Shiyu by the pool.
• Chen Shiyu told Mo Li that Chai Yi had bid a hundred million for the Tear of the Aurora Borealis necklace as Mo Li's birthday present.
• Mo Li's confusion made Chen Shiyu realize that Chai Yi might never have given him the necklace, and Chen Shiyu worried that he had revealed too much.
• Li Qingmi came over and took Chen Shiyu's hand, then teased him for hitting on people while he was away.
• Chen Shiyu reassured Li Qingmi that he only had eyes for him, and Li Qingmi reflected that love had made him insecure.