Chapter Summaries

Feng Louyu and Qin Shijing argued over their relationship and whether Qin would return to the show, before Qin agreed to go back and pursue him. Later, Chen Shiyu read Gu Chengyuan’s public apology, which exposed his fabricated image and his role in the cyberbullying of Chi Yining.

• Feng Louyu considered asking Qin Shijing to return to the Little Blue House but resisted defining their relationship.
• Feng Louyu mentioned his handsome new helper, Bao Luofeng, prompting Qin Shijing to reconsider leaving him alone on the show.
• Feng Louyu tried to get dressed and said the show did not need Qin, but Qin hugged him and insisted he was going back.
• Chen Shiyu saw Gu Chengyuan’s explosive Weibo post and checked with Li Qingmi, who confirmed it was real.
• Gu Chengyuan admitted he had lied about his height, helped allow Chi Yining’s cyberbullying, and maintained a false public persona, and offered to compensate brands and productions.

Chen Shiyu saw Gu Chengyuan face backlash after revealing his real height, while brands began ending their contracts with him. The story went back to the previous morning, when Gu Chengyuan told Shao Chongsi he would stop wearing height-increasing insoles and accepted the fallout, then revealed the scale of his investments.

• Chen Shiyu read online comments mocking Gu Chengyuan’s height and criticizing his timing, while marketing accounts and brands turned against him.
• Gu Chengyuan told Shao Chongsi he planned to stop wearing height-increasing insoles and let the public learn the truth the next morning.
• Gu Chengyuan asked Shao Chongsi’s firm to handle the lawsuits that might follow, and Shao Chongsi agreed.
• Gu Chengyuan recalled his controlled childhood and how he had lacked privacy and even pocket money.
• Gu Chengyuan told Shao Chongsi that his investments had grown more than a hundredfold and described his overseas restaurants and supermarket chains.

Shao Chongsi learned how successfully Gu Chengyuan had built his business empire, while Chi Yining discovered that Gu Chengyuan’s height-increasing insoles had shattered Chen Shiyu’s image of his idol. The chapter ended with Chi Yining struggling not to laugh as Chen Shiyu blew a snot bubble.

• Shao Chongsi realized Gu Chengyuan had built a fortune through his own investments and businesses, and Gu said he had stayed with his family because he was used to it.
• Chi Yining, exhausted after staying up late, answered a knock at his door and invited Chen Shiyu inside.
• Chen Shiyu tearfully told Chi Yining that his idol, Gu Chengyuan, wore five-centimeter height-increasing insoles and was only 184 centimeters tall without them.
• Chi Yining wondered whether Gu Chengyuan’s height changed the expected romantic pairing, while the livestream viewers joked about the revelation.
• Chen Shiyu laughed through his tears and blew a snot bubble, and Chi Yining barely held back his laughter before offering him tissues.

Chi Yining defended Gu Chengyuan online, helping reverse the backlash against him and prompting Gu Chengyuan’s family to confront their past mistakes. Grateful, Gu Chengyuan visited Chi Yining, where he unexpectedly found Chen Shiyu already there.

• Chi Yining praised Gu Chengyuan’s acting, clean record, and charitable donations, and his comments trended online.
• Brands withdrew their announcements about terminating their contracts with Gu Chengyuan after Chi Yining’s defense went viral.
• Lan Qing berated Gu Kai over the public scandal, and Gu Kai admitted he had failed their son and urged her to see a therapist.
• Gu Chengyuan, who had been preparing to leave the entertainment industry, decided to thank Chi Yining and promised to protect him from Yan Guiyun.
• Gu Chengyuan visited Chi Yining and sat beside Chen Shiyu, who reacted in shock when he recognized him.

Gu Chengyuan thanked Chi Yining for defending him and announced that he would pursue him, drawing several people into Chi Yining’s room. Yan Guiyun and Shao Chongsi reacted with shock, while Li Qingmi enjoyed the growing romantic confusion.

• Gu Chengyuan thanked Chen Shiyu for supporting him and confirmed that he would keep pursuing Chi Yining.
• Chi Yining asked if he could take back his defense of Gu Chengyuan, but Gu Chengyuan said it was too late.
• Shao Chongsi watched the livestream, saw Gu Chengyuan enter Chi Yining’s room, and hurried over.
• Chen Shiyu, Gu Chengyuan, Shao Chongsi, and Li Qingmi gathered in Chi Yining’s room with Yan Guiyun.
• Yan Guiyun challenged the visitors, and Gu Chengyuan announced that he intended to pursue Yining, shocking Yan Guiyun and Shao Chongsi.
• Li Qingmi enjoyed the commotion and decided that stirring things up made the dating show more fun.

Chi Yining stayed behind with Yan Guiyun, who reassured him that he could turn away guests and was pleased when Chi offered to keep him company. Later, the cast began their last game on the Little Blue House map, and their word chain spun into a story about Jia Mingchuan and a bicycle.

• Yan Guiyun comforted Chi Yining and told him he could refuse visitors who made him uncomfortable.
• Chi Yining offered to stay with Yan Guiyun while he was not taking on projects.
• The staff announced a ten-person word-chain game as the final game on the Little Blue House map before the cast moved to a new map next week.
• Chi Yining started the game, and the first round produced a simple chain about admiring the moon.
• In the second round, the cast improvised a story in which Jia Mingchuan rode a bicycle into a ditch, got covered in sludge, and climbed out to search for wildflowers to mourn the departed bicycle.

Chi Yining and the other guests played a story-building game, taking turns adding phrases to create increasingly absurd tales about one another. The game left Wang Xinyang falling from the clouds while Jia Mingchuan, Hu Bing, and Chen Shiyu turned his embarrassing moment into a recording.

• The guests made Shao Chongsi's haunted-house story into a tale about his heartbreak.
• They dressed Li Qingmi in elaborate gear, then had him crouch in a corner spying on neighborhood aunties gossiping about Wang next door.
• Chi Yining began a story about coming from another world to destroy humanity because housing prices were too high.
• The guests gave Yan Guiyun a Gatling gun, then narrated his bullets running out as monsters and beasts attacked him.
• Wang Xinyang walked above the clouds and fell, while Bai Chongxuan and Shao Chongsi tried to turn the scene into a rescue.
• Jia Mingchuan had Hu Bing and Chen Shiyu capture Wang Xinyang's embarrassing state on camera and save it to an album.

The cast played a chaotic word-chain game before the Ice Pool Team received its overdue prize packages. Chi Yining found a gold dagger, while Hu Bing received a gold chain, leaving the group to wonder what the next map would bring.

• The cast improvised increasingly ridiculous stories during rounds eight through ten, making each other and the viewers laugh.
• Chi Yining held Yan Guiyun’s hand as the game continued, and Yan Guiyun wanted to pull him into his arms.
• The cast finished round eleven with another absurd story, and Chen Shiyu praised Chi Yining’s contribution.
• The staff announced that the Ice Pool Team had won the overdue prize package from “Who Is the Hunter.”
• Chi Yining opened a box containing a gold dagger, while Hu Bing received a gleaming gold chain.
• Jia Mingchuan joked that Hu Bing would now be called Boss Hu.

Yan Guiyun showed Chi Yining the apartment he had prepared, then offered to help him skip school by taking exams. As they relaxed together, Yan Guiyun explained how closely he read Chi Yining’s expressions and habits, leaving Chi Yining convinced that Gu Chengyuan was lucky Yan Guiyun wasn’t a villain.

• Yan Guiyun brought Chi Yining to see a furnished apartment and suggested he stay at Yan Guiyun’s place until the new furniture aired out.
• Chi Yining said he did not want to return to school, and Yan Guiyun offered to arrange exams that would let him skip classes.
• Yan Guiyun told Chi Yining that Xiao Wu had already collected the car for him and parked it in the garage.
• Chi Yining tapped Yan Guiyun’s nose, and Yan Guiyun teased him before explaining how he noticed Chi Yining’s subtle expressions.
• Yan Guiyun described how he used Chi Yining’s eating habits to guess what food he wanted, and Chi Yining thought Gu Chengyuan was fortunate Yan Guiyun was not a villain.

Chi Yining wondered about his unknown parents, while Yan Guiyun suspected they might be secretive scientific researchers. Meanwhile, Chi Yining appeared to set something in motion, and Meng Ke woke to discover his messages and a video of him insulting Chi Yining had spread online.

• Chi Yining told Yan Guiyun he could find no information about his parents and had never met them.
• Yan Guiyun guessed that Chi Yining’s grandmother might not be his blood relative and that his real parents might work in highly classified scientific research.
• Chi Yining returned to the study with a mischievous grin to do something he described as fun.
• Lin Qin called Meng Ke and warned him that his messages to Chi Yining and a video of him cursing Chi Yining had been posted online.
• Li Qingmi saw Gu Chengyuan publicly condemn Meng Ke, threaten him, and share a link to Meng Ke’s personal information on the Capital Art Institute’s forum.

After Chi Yining permanently pinned Meng Ke’s exposed personal information to the university forum, Yan Guiyun comforted him and explained why he had canceled the assistant who was supposed to join them. Yan Guiyun invited Chi Yining to visit his grandfather, leaving them set to play Go or Chinese chess together.

• Chi Yining permanently pinned the post exposing Meng Ke’s personal information after receiving a video of Meng Ke cursing him out.
• Yan Guiyun offered to have Meng Ke dragged off to feed the sharks, but Chi Yining fed him a strawberry and reminded him that murder was illegal.
• Yan Guiyun told Chi Yining that two new guests would join the dating show next week and that he had canceled Chi Yining’s assistant because Chi Yining disliked having people around.
• Chi Yining asked how Yan Guiyun managed his work and took care of him, and Yan Guiyun said caring for him was easy.
• Yan Guiyun invited Chi Yining to visit his grandfather and play Go or Chinese chess, and Chi Yining agreed while joking that Yan Guiyun should be good at everything as an overbearing CEO.

Meng Ke’s family faced the consequences of his actions after Yunxi rejected his plea for help and Luo Ye intervened. Later, Chi Yining played chess with Old Master Yan, leaving Yan Guiyun struck by how different he seemed.

• Yunxi denied knowing Meng Ke, hung up on him, and blocked his calls.
• Meng Ke tried to flee when he saw Luo Ye and her companion at the Meng family villa, but he was dragged back.
• Meng Lang knelt and accepted Luo Ye’s decision, while Luo Ye left with her husband.
• Police arrived and arrested Meng Lang over alleged illegal business operations, leaving Meng Ke crying as the household staff departed.
• Luo Ye told her husband that the company investigation and asset seizure would make Meng Ke suffer.
• Chi Yining played chess with Old Master Yan, and Yan Guiyun remarked that Chi seemed like an entirely different cat.

Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun returned to the dating show with two new guests, Chai Yi and Su Ziqian, and the twelve participants drew rooms in the estate. Chi Yining ended up on the fourth floor near Yan Guiyun, while he wondered whether he would get to ride his bicycle around the grounds.

• Yan Guiyun felt jealous after Chi Yining bonded with his grandfather, and Chi Yining reassured him while reflecting on his lost family.
• Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun arrived at the South City estate for the dating show with the other guests.
• Chai Yi and Su Ziqian introduced themselves as the two new guests.
• The guests drew room assignments, placing Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun on the fourth floor with Chen Shiyu and Bai Chongxuan.
• Yan Guiyun confirmed that their belongings had been moved, and Chi Yining thought about riding his bicycle around the estate.

Chi Yining discovered that Yan Guiyun had arranged for them to get identical rooms with round beds, then joined the others for breakfast the next morning. Chen Shiyu kissed Wang Xinyang on the cheek, leaving Bai Chongxuan upset and Chi Yining eager to escape the awkward scene.

• Bai Chongxuan asked Yan Guiyun about Chai Yi, and Yan Guiyun revealed he knew Chai Yi's connections.
• Bai Chongxuan told Yan Guiyun that Su Ziqian and Jia Mingchuan had apparently been high school classmates.
• Chi Yining found a round bed in his room and guessed that Yan Guiyun had arranged it; he and Yan Guiyun exchanged photos of their identical rooms.
• The next morning, Chen Shiyu hugged Wang Xinyang and invited Chi Yining to have salad with him.
• Chen Shiyu kissed Wang Xinyang on the cheek, and Chi Yining backed away from Bai Chongxuan's reddening eyes, wanting to escape.

Chi Yining avoided the tense breakfast scene and joined Yan Guiyun in watching the other guests' drama. The guests drew teams for a fruit-picking activity, and Chi Yining began picking peaches before Wang Xinyang came to join him.

• Chi Yining fled to the dining room after spotting Chai Yi behind Wang Xinyang, while Gu Chengyuan lamented that Chi Yining would not eat his breakfast.
• Chi Yining told Yan Guiyun what had happened, and Yan Guiyun joked that it was their turn to watch the drama.
• The production team announced a group fruit-picking activity, and the guests drew lots to form three teams.
• Chi Yining's team included Bai Chongxuan, Wang Xinyang, and Chai Yi, and an estate worker led them to a peach grove.
• Chi Yining chose a peach tree and began picking fruit, then Wang Xinyang set down his basket beside him and said he had come so Chi Yining would not be bored alone.

Chi Yining tried to escape an awkward peach-picking scene, but Wang Xinyang, Chai Yi, and Bai Chongxuan followed him to another tree. The group kept picking together as Chi Yining resigned himself to their company.

• Bai Chongxuan complained about the heat, and Wang Xinyang switched places with him while Bai asked why Wang liked Chi Yining.
• Wang Xinyang admitted that he liked Chi Yining but could not explain why, and offered to stay quiet if Chi disliked him talking.
• Chi Yining moved to another peach tree, hoping to pick fruit away from the others.
• Wang Xinyang picked at a nearby tree, Chai Yi followed him, and Bai Chongxuan stayed beside him.
• Bai Chongxuan told Wang Xinyang that he knew Wang cared about him most, while Chi Yining pretended the three of them were peaches in disguise.
• Someone laughed to Qin Shijing that Chi Yining's team would struggle to fill two baskets.

The groups worked to pick fruit, with Chen Shiyu and Li Qingmi struggling through the orchard while Yan Guiyun and the others picked quickly. Chi Yining accepted Wang Xinyang’s offer to help with his basket, and Bai Chongxuan watched them approach.

• Qin Shijing handed Feng Louyu water and asked his assistant to arrange installation of a new air conditioner.
• Chen Shiyu and Li Qingmi reached the orchard, rested, and teased each other while Jia Mingchuan and Su Ziqian followed quietly.
• Su Ziqian went to pick fruit, while Jia Mingchuan stayed with Chen Shiyu and Li Qingmi.
• Shao Chongsi questioned how quickly Gu Chengyuan, Yan Guiyun, and the others were picking fruit, and Yan Guiyun quickly learned how to use the picking tool.
• Chi Yining struggled to lift his basket, so Wang Xinyang offered to help and walked over to him.
• Bai Chongxuan watched Chi Yining’s arms, then noticed someone blocking his view.

After gathering peaches, Chi Yining returned to the Little White House and told Yan Guiyun about the trouble in the grove, while Hu Bing and Jia Mingchuan discussed their old connections. At dinner, Gu Chengyuan and Shao Chongsi took the seats beside Chi Yining and Gu Chengyuan, leaving Wang Xinyang out of his preferred spot.

• With Wang Xinyang's help, Chi Yining carried a basket of peaches toward the fruit truck, but Bai Chongxuan, Chai Yi, and the others kept following him.
• Back at the Little White House, Yan Guiyun comforted Chi Yining and said he would try to stay on his team despite the assistant director's return.
• Chi Yining covered Yan Guiyun's face with a tissue when Yan Guiyun asked him to wipe away his sweat.
• Jia Mingchuan told Hu Bing that he had been classmates with Hu Bing's brother Hu Yi and had known Hu Bing since he was a child.
• Chi Yining sat beside Yan Guiyun for dinner, while Gu Chengyuan took the seat beside Chi Yining and Shao Chongsi sat beside Gu Chengyuan, forcing Wang Xinyang to choose another place.

After dinner, the guests began a production-team icebreaker game of truth or dare. Chi Yining answered the first question, and the next round left Hu Bing facing Li Qingmi’s dare.

• Wang Xinyang sat between Bai Chongxuan and Chai Yi, while Chi Yining wondered about their history and started shipping them.
• Chen Shiyu announced the truth-or-dare game, and Li Qingmi enthusiastically agreed.
• The name and number wheels chose Chi Yining and Jia Mingchuan, who asked whether Chi Yining would break up two fighting dogs; Chi Yining said he would not.
• The wheels chose Hu Bing and Li Qingmi, who dared Hu Bing to call his first recent WeChat contact on speaker and say, “I’m a pig.”

The cast continued playing truth or dare, revealing playful dynamics and hidden feelings among the group. The chapter ended with Jia Mingchuan facing Su Ziqian’s question about who among them was the most handsome or prettiest.

• Hu Bing called An Yan and told him, "I'm a pig," prompting teasing from the group.
• Shao Chongsi dared Bai Chongxuan to carry Wang Xinyang bridal-style for a hundred squats, which Bai Chongxuan completed effortlessly.
• Yan Guiyun took Chi Yining's clenched fist in his hand as Chi Yining silently cheered Bai Chongxuan on.
• Hu Bing asked Li Qingmi whether he had a secret stash of money, and Li Qingmi admitted that he did.
• Su Ziqian asked Jia Mingchuan who among the group he thought was the most handsome or prettiest.