Chapter Summaries

Chi Yining unexpectedly topped the elimination rankings, and his unexplained change from an unassuming student into Gu Chengyuan’s obsessive fan left Gu puzzled. During the game, Chi accidentally—or so he claimed—eliminated two hidden contestants, then fled while the others stared in disbelief.

• Gu Chengyuan saw that Chi Yining had eight eliminations and wondered what had caused Chi’s obsessive behavior and current depression.
• Shao Chongsi noted that the ranking had confirmed his suspicion about who had taken out five people at once.
• Chen Shiyu and Li Qingmi emerged from a fifth-floor cabinet after being caught in the blast, while Wang Xinyang, Bai Chongxuan, and Jia Mingchuan reacted to the ambush.
• Chi Yining silently tossed a grenade at Wang Xinyang’s feet, eliminating the group and the two hidden contestants.
• Chi Yining said his hand had slipped and left, while Director Feng laughed in the control room before receiving a friend request notification.

Chi Yining agreed to consider bringing someone with him to Hu Bing’s competition in the Capital, while an enraged young man watched the livestream and vowed to disfigure him. The chapter left the young man plotting against Chi Yining after destroying his computer.

• Hu Bing found Chi Yining on the fifth floor, and they went downstairs together to look for people on the fourth floor.
• Hu Bing invited Chi Yining to watch his competition in the Capital next month, and Chi Yining asked whether he could bring someone along.
• Hu Bing eagerly agreed, while livestream viewers commented on Chi Yining’s behavior and wondered whether he was depressed.
• A young man in a Capital villa watched Chi Yining on the livestream, furious that Brother Yuan favored him.
• The young man smashed his computer and vowed to ruin Chi Yining’s face.

Gu Chengyuan and Shao Chongsi found the fourth-floor door jammed and decided to escape through its transom. Shao Chongsi lifted Gu Chengyuan toward the opening, while the livestream viewers watched and teased them.

• Gu Chengyuan and Shao Chongsi tried the door but could not open it.
• Shao Chongsi suspected someone had jammed the door from outside and suggested climbing through the transom.
• Gu Chengyuan reluctantly agreed after Shao Chongsi guilt-tripped him about his fans.
• Shao Chongsi tossed a frying pan aside and lifted Gu Chengyuan by the legs toward the transom.

Gu Chengyuan escaped a locked room with Shao Chongsi’s help, then realized Shao Chongsi had made him climb out the window unnecessarily. Meanwhile, Chi Yining hunted the remaining players, Hu Bing eliminated himself to avoid Yan Guiyun, and Chi Yining eliminated Wang Xinyang, who mistook the move for a hug.

• Gu Chengyuan climbed through a side window, removed a stick blocking the door, and accused Shao Chongsi of making him embarrass himself.
• Chi Yining returned to the third floor to wait for Lamb Skewers and began searching for players to eliminate.
• Yan Guiyun cornered Hu Bing, who chose to put his own neck against Yan Guiyun’s blade and was sent to respawn.
• Chi Yining dodged Wang Xinyang’s thrown axe, eliminated him with a strike to the neck, and apologized as Wang Xinyang smiled at him.

Wang Xinyang met the unexpectedly young Director Feng on the sixth floor and watched the livestream. Chi Yining faced Jia Mingchuan in a knife-fighting challenge, landing an elbow strike before Jia Mingchuan prepared to fight seriously.

• Wang Xinyang went to the sixth-floor control room, where he met Director Feng and asked about his hometown and absence from the backstage area.
• Wang Xinyang settled in to watch the livestream after being eliminated from the competition.
• Chi Yining approached Jia Mingchuan, who asked whether he disliked interacting with people.
• Chi Yining drew his Rattling Fox knife and began fighting Jia Mingchuan, who blocked his opening attack.
• Chi Yining pressed down Jia Mingchuan's knife and struck him in the abdomen with a backward elbow, making Jia Mingchuan reset his stance and take the fight seriously.

Chi Yining defeated Jia Mingchuan in a knife fight, while Yan Guiyun kept eliminating players and drove Shao Chongsi and Gu Chengyuan out of the game. The chapter ended with Yan Guiyun trapping the pair at their spawn point and joking that he would officiate their wedding.

• Chi Yining counterattacked Jia Mingchuan and slit his throat in under two minutes.
• Jia Mingchuan joined Director Feng and Wang Xinyang on the sixth floor, then hinted that he knew a way to bring Old Qin back sooner.
• Chi Yining returned to the fifth floor and began searching for Chen Shiyu and Li Qingmi.
• Yan Guiyun eliminated Shao Chongsi and Gu Chengyuan, then waited outside their spawn point and eliminated them again.
• Yan Guiyun called the spawn point a wedding venue and said he would officiate Shao Chongsi and Gu Chengyuan's wedding.

Chi Yining searched the fifth floor and eliminated Chen Shiyu and Li Qingmi with his last grenade, then went looking for Bai Chongxuan. He provoked Bai by calling him stupid, and the two prepared to fight.

• Chi Yining tracked Chen Shiyu by the scent of gardenias and threw his last grenade, eliminating Chen and Li Qingmi.
• Chen Shiyu and Li Qingmi returned to the spawn point, while Chi Yining checked the time and set out to find Bai Chongxuan.
• Chi Yining found Bai Chongxuan lying on a table and said they should make the fight quick.
• When Bai asked why Chi kept killing him, Chi called him stupid.
• Bai drew a Scorpion karambit, and Chi told him to attack first.

Chi Yining defeated Bai Chongxuan in the arena, while the Lawyer Team’s Gu Chengyuan and Shao Chongsi were eliminated by Yan. After Shao Chongsi questioned how long Bai Chongxuan and Jia Mingchuan had lasted against Chi Yining, Bai Chongxuan remained embarrassed by his loss.

• Bai Chongxuan attacked Chi Yining, but Chi Yining blocked and evaded his moves before disarming him and defeating him in two minutes.
• Bai Chongxuan joined Jia Mingchuan and Wang Xinyang on the sixth floor, where Wang Xinyang pushed away his attempted hug but offered him peach soda.
• Chi Yining returned to the fifth floor to find Chen Shiyu and Li Qingmi, leaving the Gossip Team with two lives.
• Gu Chengyuan and Shao Chongsi were eliminated by Yan and joined Bai Chongxuan and Jia Mingchuan in the control room.
• Shao Chongsi suggested Chi Yining had gone easy on Bai Chongxuan and Jia Mingchuan, then asked how many minutes they had lasted against him.

Chi Yining searched the building for Li Qingmi and Chen Shiyu while trying to avoid using the bathroom in front of the livestream. After both were eliminated, he headed for a staircase to find Yan Guiyun, while Chen Shiyu explained why confronting Yan was so difficult.

• Shao Chongsi brought Gu Chengyuan a bottle of water, and Gu thanked him before remembering he still had to cook breakfast for him.
• Hu Bing was eliminated after repeatedly encountering Yan Guiyun, and he said Yan was terrifying when Chi Yining was not around.
• Chi Yining searched for Li Qingmi and Chen Shiyu, then rushed toward a staircase after hearing that both had been eliminated and only Yan Guiyun remained.
• Chen Shiyu told the control room that Yan Guiyun had trained in numerous martial arts under renowned masters.

The Ice Pool Team won after Yan Guiyun eliminated himself rather than fight Chi Yining, then the group returned to the Little Blue House. Everyone discovered that Tuesday’s activity was a group outing.

• Chen Shiyu and Li Qingmi arrived as the match ended with Yan Guiyun eliminated and the Ice Pool Team victorious.
• Chi Yining wondered why Yan Guiyun had blown himself up, and Yan Guiyun claimed the Yan Family’s rules forbade him from hitting friends.
• Gu Chengyuan resented Yan Guiyun’s closeness with Chi Yining while Shao Chongsi watched and teased him.
• The group returned to the Little Blue House, and Chi Yining rushed upstairs before Chen Shiyu could speak with him.
• Everyone noticed the whiteboard announced that they would all go out together on Tuesday, and Chen Shiyu flopped onto the sofa.

At the guesthouse resort, Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun left for the barbecue while Gu Chengyuan stayed behind with Shao Chongsi. Gu Chengyuan reflected on his mother’s pressure to wear height-increasing insoles, then got up to leave the storage room.

• Chen Shiyu praised the resort and was delighted when Chi Yining smiled at him, but Yan Guiyun kept him from getting close.
• Yang Fang told the guests the ingredients were ready and the staff were leaving for team-building activities.
• Yan Guiyun led Chi Yining outside, and Chen Shiyu followed them.
• Shao Chongsi stayed beside a downcast Gu Chengyuan, who recalled that Shao had brought him medicine and bandages the night before.
• Gu Chengyuan remembered agreeing to wear five-centimeter insoles after his mother cried and pressured him, and he blamed her complaints for his bad mood.
• Gu Chengyuan asked Shao Chongsi why he had not gone outside, then stood up to leave.

At the barbecue area, Chi Yining tried to avoid conversation by skewering corn, while Chen Shiyu complained about washing chives and traded gossip with Li Qingmi. Li Qingmi revealed that the assistant director was Qin Shijing, and Chen Shiyu speculated that he would make a good match for Director Feng.

• Gu Chengyuan joked with Shao Chongsi about them both being scum, and Shao Chongsi called himself refined.
• Chi Yining used a conversation-ending question to stump Wang Xinyang when Wang asked whether skewering corn was tiring.
• Hu Bing asked Chi Yining the same question, and Wang Xinyang repeated Chi Yining’s answer before Hu Bing could hear it from him.
• Chen Shiyu complained to Li Qingmi about being assigned to wash chives and said he had seen Director Feng rushing off that morning.
• Li Qingmi guessed Director Feng had gone to find the assistant director and identified him as Qin Shijing, a young Best Director winner.
• Chen Shiyu said Qin Shijing sounded like a good match for Director Feng.

The group prepared barbecue ingredients while teasing one another, and Wang Xinyang realized Bai Chongxuan was far stronger than his delicate appearance suggested. Bai Chongxuan turned Wang’s accusation into a flirtatious remark, leaving Wang exasperated and Jia Mingchuan and Hu Bing disgusted.

• Li Qingmi teased Chen Shiyu about gossip and promised to reveal a secret after the dating show ended.
• Jia Mingchuan told the late-arriving Shao Chongsi and Gu Chengyuan to wash their hands and help prepare skewers.
• Bai Chongxuan carried heavy coal with ease, surprising Wang Xinyang, while Hu Bing teased Wang for underestimating him.
• Yan Guiyun asked Chi Yining if this was his first time at such an activity, and Chi admitted he had been holding back laughter.
• Jia Mingchuan, Hu Bing, Bai Chongxuan, and Wang Xinyang sat around the ingredients as they skewered food and traded jokes.
• Wang Xinyang questioned Bai Chongxuan’s delicate-baby act, but Bai happily took it as proof that Wang found him delicate, prompting Jia Mingchuan and Hu Bing to react with disgust.

The group paired off to prepare a barbecue, while Chen Shiyu and Li Qingmi struggled to get theirs started. As Yan Guiyun encouraged Chi Yining to make friends with the others, Chi said Yan was all he needed for a good friend.

• Bai Chongxuan divided the group among five grills, and Chi Yining teamed up with Yan Guiyun while Hu Bing paired with Brother Chuan.
• Shao Chongsi claimed Gu Chengyuan as his partner, leaving Chen Shiyu to team up with Li Qingmi.
• Chen Shiyu persuaded Li Qingmi to study a barbecue tutorial, but Li returned to find Chen Shiyu soot-blackened after trying to start the grill alone.
• Li Qingmi laughed at Chen Shiyu's appearance and took over the grilling, while Chi Yining quietly laughed along.
• Yan Guiyun told Chi Yining that the others were easy to get along with, but Chi said Yan was all he needed for a good friend.

The group grilled food together, and Shao Chongsi tried to cheer up the unusually subdued Gu Chengyuan with barbecue and drinks. Chen Shiyu discovered Li Qingmi still had pocket money, leaving Li Qingmi wondering who had revealed the secret.

• Yan Guiyun teased the kitten while preparing food, and the kitten asked when Yan Guiyun would model for him.
• Shao Chongsi bought a basket of wine and asked Gu Chengyuan why he looked pale; Gu Chengyuan said it was because he had met Shao Chongsi.
• Gu Chengyuan gave Shao Chongsi beef skewers, and Shao Chongsi offered him cold peach wine.
• Bai Chongxuan asked Wang Xinyang for a drink, but backed down when Wang Xinyang warned him about drinking.
• Li Qingmi praised Chen Shiyu's grilling and sent him to buy drinks with Li Qingmi's phone, revealing that Li Qingmi had pocket money.

Chen Shiyu and Li Qingmi enjoyed fruit wine and barbecue, while Chi Yining’s innocent closeness left Yan Guiyun flustered. Later, Shao Chongsi asked Gu Chengyuan whether he had ever done anything especially rebellious.

• Chen Shiyu brought fruit wine back to Li Qingmi and praised his improved grilling.
• Chen Shiyu drank sweet fruit wine with his barbecue, and Li Qingmi continued cooking.
• Chi Yining asked Yan Guiyun for fruit wine and tried both his own drink and Yan Guiyun’s.
• Yan Guiyun blushed and grew flustered when Chi Yining shared his drink and fed him barbecue.
• Shao Chongsi asked Gu Chengyuan whether he had ever done anything especially rebellious.

While grilling skewers, Shao Chongsi and Gu Chengyuan shared childhood stories and talked about Gu Chengyuan’s unhappy life in the entertainment industry. As Gu Chengyuan grew drunk and answered questions, Shao Chongsi began probing him about the show’s guests.

• Shao Chongsi told Gu Chengyuan how he had run away from home as a child to protect a stray puppy, and Gu Chengyuan laughed at the story.
• Gu Chengyuan said he had entered the entertainment industry to escape his mother’s control, not because he liked it.
• Shao Chongsi suggested Gu Chengyuan could leave the industry, but Gu Chengyuan admitted he did not dare and had never considered it.
• Gu Chengyuan realized his feelings for Chi Yining were possessiveness rather than love and said he did not know how to apologize or make amends.
• After noticing Gu Chengyuan had drunk more than a dozen cans, Shao Chongsi asked who was the most handsome guest on the show, and Gu Chengyuan answered that it was himself.

After a barbecue left several guests drunk, Gu Chengyuan woke in a shared guesthouse room with no memory of the night and worried that Shao Chongsi had discovered his secret about his feet. Shao Chongsi promised to keep quiet, but Gu Chengyuan was also startled to find him in the room wearing only a towel.

• Shao Chongsi fell silent when Gu Chengyuan questioned him, and Gu Chengyuan wondered whether he had a secret about his feet.
• Chen Shiyu climbed onto Li Qingmi's back, while Wang Xinyang photographed the guests and praised Bai Chongxuan's appearance.
• Gu Chengyuan woke in a hotel room the next morning, realized he could not remember what happened after he got drunk, and searched for his shoes.
• Gu Chengyuan found two pairs of shoes by the door and feared Shao Chongsi had discovered his secret.
• Shao Chongsi told Gu Chengyuan he knew and would keep it confidential, then explained they had to share the room.
• Gu Chengyuan hid under the covers and told Shao Chongsi to get dressed after seeing him in a bath towel.

The housemates dealt with awkward mornings after a night sharing rooms, while Bai Chongxuan tried to make peace with Wang Xinyang after accidentally seeing him naked in the shower. The chapter ended with Bai Chongxuan going to buy Wang Xinyang breakfast so he could cool down.

• Gu Chengyuan retreated under the covers after admiring Shao Chongsi, who gently told him to shower before bringing breakfast.
• Li Qingmi lamented being kept awake by drunk Chen Shiyu, while Hu Bing regretted sleeping on Jia Mingchuan's tent floor because his back hurt.
• Yan Guiyun admired the kitten sleeping in unusual poses, gently pinched his cheek, and went downstairs to buy breakfast.
• Bai Chongxuan apologized to Wang Xinyang for accidentally opening the bathroom door and seeing him naked, but Wang Xinyang accused him of looking on purpose.
• Bai Chongxuan admitted he had taken extra looks, then offered to buy Wang Xinyang breakfast and left before the hotel's breakfast service ended.

After the group returned to the Little Blue House, Li Qingmi and Hu Bing dealt with the aftermath of a miserable night while Chen Shiyu remained oblivious to his role in it. In the Capital, Feng Louyu confronted Qin Shijing about what happened when he was drunk, but Qin Shijing insisted Feng had encouraged him.

• Jia Mingchuan teased Li Qingmi about his dark circles, and Bai Chongxuan went to buy breakfast for Little Sheep.
• Yan Guiyun teased Shao Chongsi about doting on Gu Chengyuan, and Shao Chongsi called out his stock lines from domineering CEO novels.
• After breakfast, the group returned to the Little Blue House, where Chen Shiyu vomited and Li Qingmi went upstairs to sleep.
• Hu Bing blamed Jia Mingchuan for tricking him into sleeping on the floor, while Gu Chengyuan told Shao Chongsi they would talk later.
• In the Capital, Feng Louyu accused Qin Shijing of taking advantage of him while he was drunk, but Qin Shijing said Feng had clung to him and seemed to invite it.
• Qin Shijing offered to cover the show's losses and tried to put ointment on Feng Louyu, who refused.