Chapter Summaries

Chi Yining worked late again, and Yan Guiyun carried him to bed after he fell asleep. The next morning, Wang Xinyang, Hu Bing, and Yan Guiyun went running, while Wang Xinyang worried that Yan Guiyun had already won Chi Yining over.

• Chi Yining accepted a rushed commission and stayed up drawing after Yan Guiyun used the bathroom.
• Yan Guiyun found Chi Yining asleep and carried him to bed, and Chi Yining woke the next morning back in bed.
• Chi Yining noticed Yan Guiyun's cedar scent lingering in the bathroom and wondered if he was becoming attached to him.
• Wang Xinyang went for a coastal run, and Hu Bing joined him, determined to become stronger for love.
• Yan Guiyun overtook Wang Xinyang during the run, and Wang Xinyang worried he could not compete for Chi Yining's affection.
• Bai Chongxuan caught up with Wang Xinyang as he slowed down.

Wang Xinyang worked to build his confidence while the housemates gathered for breakfast. Shao Chongsi pressed Gu Chengyuan about his past with Chi Yining, and Yan Guiyun returned to the little blue house and began preparing breakfast for himself and his kitten.

• Wang Xinyang psyched himself up and overtook Bai Chongxuan during their morning run.
• Gu Chengyuan made sandwiches for himself and Chen Shiyu, then offered one to Shao Chongsi.
• Li Qingmi brought Shao Chongsi imported milk and joked about caring for the middle-aged and elderly.
• Shao Chongsi asked Gu Chengyuan whether he regretted rejecting Chi Yining's confession, and Gu Chengyuan denied ever having interest in Chi Yining.
• Yan Guiyun returned to the little blue house, took a quick cold shower, and started making breakfast for himself and his kitten.

Chi Yining shared breakfast with Yan Guiyun while Hu Bing and Wang Xinyang privately hoped for a chance with their respective interests. The guests gathered for the day’s activities, where staff announced that they would take over hosting because the host had fallen ill.

• Yan Guiyun made shiitake and lean pork congee for Chi Yining, and the two ate breakfast together.
• Hu Bing felt jealous of Yan Guiyun and hoped to get lucky in the drawing, while Wang Xinyang decided to wait for Yan Guiyun to lose interest in Chi Yining.
• Bai Chongxuan complained about the milk and milk buns Wang Xinyang had prepared, but Wang Xinyang told him to eat them or not.
• At 9:40, the guests gathered in the living room after receiving a message from staff.
• Yang Fang announced that staff would host the activities because the host had suddenly fallen ill.

Chi Yining chose Yan Guiyun as his teammate because Yan had given him nearly all his points, and the guests drew lots for the remaining teams. Gu Chengyuan and Shao Chongsi began the drawing game, with Shao Chongsi telling Gu to draw.

• The staff announced that accumulated points determined first choice of teammate and gave everyone one hundred points as compensation for the production team's oversight.
• Chi Yining chose Yan Guiyun, angering Gu Chengyuan, while Director Feng worried the pair would build an overwhelming lead.
• Yang Fang explained that Chi Yining would have to guess because he had majored in art, and the guests drew lots to form the other teams.
• Gu Chengyuan and Shao Chongsi were paired together and went first in the drawing game.
• Shao Chongsi said he was not confident and told Gu Chengyuan to draw as the countdown approached.

Gu Chengyuan and Shao Chongsi played a drawing-and-guessing game, with Shao Chongsi guessing Gu Chengyuan’s crude drawings correctly. Chen Shiyu and Wang Xinyang began their turn, and Chen Shiyu guessed Wang Xinyang’s difficult drawing as tofu.

• Gu Chengyuan drew an abstract seal, and Shao Chongsi guessed it after eight minutes, earning their team 60 points.
• Gu Chengyuan drew a strawberry, and Shao Chongsi waited forty seconds before answering correctly.
• Gu Chengyuan and Shao Chongsi continued matching their drawing and guessing times until their team scored 600 points from ten correct answers.
• Chen Shiyu and Wang Xinyang took their turn, with Wang Xinyang drawing and Chen Shiyu guessing.
• Chen Shiyu guessed Wang Xinyang’s drawing as tofu, making Hu Bing laugh despite himself.

Wang Xinyang and Chen Shiyu scored 900 points in the drawing game, while Jia Mingchuan and Bai Chongxuan’s strong teamwork earned them 1,500. Jia Mingchuan’s performance stunned the other contestants.

• Wang Xinyang drew a loaf of bread and a crab, helping Chen Shiyu guess “Edible crab” for 60 points.
• Yan Guiyun whispered that he would make crab for Chi Yining that night, and Chi Yining nodded eagerly.
• Chen Shiyu and Wang Xinyang finished with fifteen correct answers and 900 points, bringing Chen Shiyu’s total to 1,080 points.
• Jia Mingchuan chose to guess while Bai Chongxuan drew, and Jia Mingchuan quickly identified Bai Chongxuan’s first drawing as a fountain pen.
• Jia Mingchuan and Bai Chongxuan correctly answered twenty-five questions, scored 1,500 points, and congratulated each other with a high-five.
• Wang Xinyang and Hu Bing were left speechless by Jia Mingchuan’s remarkable performance.

Hu Bing and Li Qingmi’s team took their turn in the drawing game, quickly building an impressive score as Hu Bing drew and Li Qingmi guessed. Chi Yining watched with growing confidence, believing his own ten thousand points gave him nothing to fear.

• Chi Yining hoped Brother Yan could help him win first place and earn more points, while trying not to put too much pressure on him.
• Li Qingmi took the guessing position and Hu Bing began drawing when their team’s turn started.
• Hu Bing drew a lifelike dragon in thirty seconds, and Li Qingmi correctly guessed it for sixty points.
• Hu Bing drew faster throughout the twenty-minute game while Li Qingmi continued guessing smoothly.
• Chi Yining felt relieved because he believed no score could surpass his ten thousand points and expected to team up with Brother Yan again.

Yan Guiyun and Chi Yining took their turn in the drawing game, quickly identifying each of Yan Guiyun’s sketches and earning points. They continued their flawless start as the audience marveled at their teamwork.

• The fourth team finished with 35 correct answers and 2,100 points, then Li Qingmi and Hu Bing exchanged polite farewells.
• Yan Guiyun offered Chi Yining his hand, and they walked to the chairs together while the other guests reacted with jealousy and surprise.
• Yan Guiyun drew a sika deer, and Chi Yining identified it correctly for 60 points.
• Chi Yining also correctly guessed Yan Guiyun’s drawings of a pig and spotted bamboo, earning another 120 points.
• Viewers praised the pair’s speed and wondered whether Chi Yining had stopped pursuing the film emperor.

Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun won the drawing-and-guessing game, earning 3,600 points and a prize package, while viewers wondered if Chi Yining was depressed. Back in Yan Guiyun’s room, Yan Guiyun cared for Chi Yining and gave him strawberry juice before they planned to treat his injury and open the prize.

• Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun answered sixty questions correctly, taking first place and earning 3,600 points and a prize package.
• The host announced that the guests would use their points for an outdoor date with their morning game partners, prompting Gu Chengyuan and Shao Chongsi to react with disgust.
• Viewers speculated that Chi Yining might be depressed because he had stopped posting on social media, while other commenters dismissed their concerns.
• Chi Yining followed Yan Guiyun to his room to treat his injured elbow and find out what was inside their prize box.
• Yan Guiyun gave Chi Yining strawberry juice and planned to change his dressing before opening the prize.

Yan Guiyun tended Chi Yining’s wound while Chi Yining worried that he contributed too little to their friendship. Yan Guiyun reassured him, then asked where he wanted to go that afternoon.

• Yan Guiyun fetched the first aid kit and treated Chi Yining’s arm, which had started bleeding again.
• Chi Yining admitted he was worried Yan Guiyun did all the giving and might tire of their friendship.
• Yan Guiyun told Chi Yining not to compare how much each of them gave and reassured him that friendship should not become a contest.
• Chi Yining offered to help Yan Guiyun if he ever needed it, and Yan Guiyun agreed.
• Yan Guiyun asked Chi Yining where he wanted to go for fun that afternoon.

Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun agreed to spend their date at home, and Chi Yining opened a gift to find a black folding sun umbrella. As they planned lunch and an evening grocery run, Chi Yining checked for new commission orders and thought about paying his loan and upcoming tuition.

• Yan Guiyun finished bandaging Chi Yining’s arm and agreed that they could stay home for their date.
• Chi Yining opened the director’s gift and found a black folding sun umbrella, which Yan Guiyun said would come in handy when they had to go outside.
• Yan Guiyun suggested a simple lunch and a trip to the supermarket that evening, and Chi Yining agreed.
• Chi Yining checked his online commission platform and saw that two new orders had appeared.
• Chi Yining remembered that the new semester was a little over a month away and that the director planned to move filming to the Capital when classes began.

Chi Yining kept his distance from Gu Chengyuan and joined Yan Guiyun for breakfast, showing no interest in following Gu Chengyuan. After Yan Guiyun scalded his hand, Chi Yining rushed to cool the burn under the tap.

• Chi Yining played a puzzle game while waiting for breakfast and quickly cleared five levels.
• Gu Chengyuan came out of the kitchen and assumed Chi Yining had been waiting for him, though he had made no food for him.
• Yan Guiyun called Chi Yining to collect the bowls, and Chi Yining helped carry the dishes out.
• Chi Yining praised Yan Guiyun's cooking and accepted a bowl of winter melon and pork rib soup.
• Yan Guiyun accidentally scalded his hand, and Chi Yining took him to the sink and rinsed it under cold water.

Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun shared lunch while Gu Chengyuan fumed over their closeness. Later, Chi visited Yan’s room, where they settled in to work separately as the cameras filmed their supposed date.

• Chi Yining comforted Yan Guiyun, then shared lunch with him and served him sweet-and-sour pork ribs.
• Gu Chengyuan grew jealous as Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun acted affectionate and ignored him.
• At three in the afternoon, Chi woke from his nap, took his tablet to Yan Guiyun’s room, and knocked.
• Yan Guiyun let Chi in, washed up, and changed before the camera covering was lifted.
• Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun stayed in the room doing their own work, leaving the director exasperated.

The guests spent the afternoon on outings shaped by their limited budgets, with Gu Chengyuan and Shao Chongsi studying at a library, Jia Mingchuan and Bai Chongxuan escaping the heat to play a mobile game, and Chen Shiyu and Wang Xinyang enjoying a water park. Director Feng watched the guests’ unromantic activities from the control room.

• Yang Fang told Director Feng that the guests’ outfits were fine, while Xiaofang had become the staff’s de facto head after Xiaomei was fired.
• Gu Chengyuan and Shao Chongsi visited Zhongmen Island Library, where Gu reviewed acting books and Shao studied law books.
• Jia Mingchuan and Bai Chongxuan left the hot zoo for a shopping mall, then added each other on WeChat to play a tower-pushing game.
• Chen Shiyu and Wang Xinyang played in the water park pool, splashing each other while wearing swimwear with skirts over their trunks.
• Director Feng watched Chen Shiyu and Wang Xinyang’s outing from the control room and felt numb.

As the dating show’s guests frustrated Director Feng with their unromantic choices, Yan Guiyun waited for Chi Yining to finish drawing before taking him grocery shopping. Yan Guiyun pinched Chi Yining’s cheeks, apologized, and then jokingly hinted he might do it again, prompting Chi Yining to challenge him.

• Director Feng switched to Li Qingmi and Hu Bing’s supermarket date, where they browsed slowly and studied the all-English section.
• Director Feng decided to arrange romance interviews for the guests that night.
• At 5:30 p.m., Yan Guiyun quietly went to Chi Yining and asked him to go buy fresh crabs and groceries.
• Yan Guiyun admired Chi Yining’s drawing of a girl climbing a ladder toward the moon and waited until he finished.
• Yan Guiyun pinched Chi Yining’s cheeks, apologized when they reddened, and promised to behave, but joked that he might do it again.
• Chi Yining stood up and challenged Yan Guiyun for daring to pinch him again.

Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun prepared to go out for crabs, and their easy closeness delighted viewers and satisfied Director Feng. As they left hand in hand, Chi Yining mistook Yan Guiyun’s gesture for concern that he might walk too slowly.

• Chi Yining changed into comfortable clothes and sandals before answering Yan Guiyun’s knock.
• Yan Guiyun asked Chi Yining to switch to sneakers because sand could get into his sandals, and Chi Yining agreed.
• Yan Guiyun noticed Chi Yining’s new belongings and asked Special Assistant Xu to investigate Chi Yining’s manager.
• Chi Yining changed into white sneakers, and Yan Guiyun took his hand as they headed out to get crabs.
• Viewers celebrated the pair holding hands, while Director Feng felt the show finally looked like a dating show.

Yan Guiyun and Chi Yining went grocery shopping together, choosing seafood and other ingredients for a meal. Back at the little blue house, a crab escaped in the kitchen, and Yan Guiyun ushered Chi Yining out of the restricted area.

• Yan Guiyun held Chi Yining's hand as they went to the supermarket and let him choose four crabs and some prawns.
• Yan Guiyun asked whether Chi Yining had any seafood allergies, and both said they were not allergic.
• Yan Guiyun carried the heavy groceries and offered to carry Chi Yining on his back, but Chi Yining suggested they try another time.
• Yan Guiyun and Chi Yining returned to the little blue house before the other guests and began preparing food.
• Chi Yining shouted that a crab had escaped, and Yan Guiyun smilingly ushered him out of the kitchen.

Chi Yining worried about Yan Guiyun’s burned hand and returned to the kitchen, where Yan Guiyun coaxed him into blowing on it. Gu Chengyuan watched their closeness with mounting jealousy, then received a warning from his manager to control his expression.

• Chi Yining went back into the kitchen to protect Yan Guiyun from the crabs, and Yan Guiyun clipped off their claws.
• Yan Guiyun showed Chi Yining his still-red hand and asked him to blow on it, which Chi Yining gently did.
• Gu Chengyuan and Shao Chongsi returned and saw Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun being intimate in the kitchen.
• Gu Chengyuan sat facing the kitchen and grew agitated as Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun prepared vegetables together.
• Gu Chengyuan received a message from his manager Zhao Wen telling him to watch his expressions.

Yan Guiyun cooked dinner and attentively served Chi Yining, while the other housemates returned from their outings and watched their growing closeness. Hu Bing and Li Qingmi were left tired and regretful after a dull afternoon of grocery shopping.

• Shao Chongsi arranged a late-night meeting while Gu Chengyuan avoided looking toward the kitchen.
• Yan Guiyun served Chi Yining spicy crab and peeled a bowl of prawns for him before eating himself.
• Chen Shiyu, Wang Xinyang, and Hu Bing returned and noticed Yan Guiyun and Chi Yining eating together.
• Hu Bing collapsed onto the sofa, exhausted from shopping, while Li Qingmi regretted not choosing the Little Blue House as a date location.

Jia Mingchuan and Bai Chongxuan enjoyed gaming and an expensive buffet, while Yan Guiyun and Chi Yining ate together at the house. As the guests prepared for their interviews, Yan Guiyun reassured Chi Yining and waited outside the interview room.

• Jia Mingchuan and Bai Chongxuan reached Glory King with sixteen stars after gaming at the mall, then enjoyed a five-hundred-per-person buffet.
• Yan Guiyun carefully wiped food from Chi Yining's mouth, leaving Chi Yining wondering whether their closeness seemed unusual between boys.
• Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun spent nearly an hour finishing their meal while the other guests and viewers watched with envy.
• The staff texted the guests their interview times, and Chi Yining washed up before his interview.
• Yan Guiyun gave Chi Yining a handkerchief, told him to speak honestly, and said he would wait outside the interview room.