Recaps

Fang Nuonuo tried to undo the damage from her publicity campaign as Huang Han was arrested for embezzling public funds. Lu Zhou tried to reconnect with Su Mian, but learning a handsome young man had collected the cake he sent left him unsettled.

• Cheng Qin told Fang Nuonuo that Su Mian had suggested a group dance to help her overcome stage fright, and Fang Nuonuo reluctantly agreed.
• The dating show ended and announced that viewers would vote for their favorite couple ahead of the next installment, while Xiaolu’s bathroom mishap revealed Huang Han being arrested.
• The production team’s investigation confirmed Huang Han had embezzled public funds to tip livestreamers, and Fang Nuonuo rushed to have her paid posts deleted because they included him.
• Lu Zhou transferred Su Mian ten thousand yuan, but she only accepted the money, so he ordered her a Black Swan cake instead.
• When Lu Zhou learned a handsome young man in pajamas had collected the cake, he insisted the delivery worker must be mistaken or trying to provoke him.

After hearing a misleading account of Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu caring for a child, Lu Zhou summoned Su Mian to a meeting, while Su Mian discovered that departing dating-show guests could leave her mission targets. Su Mian skipped the meeting by claiming illness and sent Lu Zhou a cake, whose message left him furious.

• Lu Zhou believed the delivery driver's account that Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu planned to raise a child together, gave the driver a bad review, and ordered Su Mian to attend a meeting.
• Su Mian learned that new male guests could become mission targets and reasoned that replacing difficult guests might help her finish her task; she also arranged an audition for a female lead role.
• Su Mian contemplated leaving Duan Xuanyu behind after completing her mission, and he reassured her when he noticed her troubled expression.
• Su Mian sent her manager a fake medical record claiming she had an infectious disease, ordered Lu Zhou a cheap cake, and went back to sleep.
• Lu Zhou initially doubted Su Mian's illness but reconsidered after hearing she had sent a cake; when he read its message at the meeting, he became furious.

Su Mian moved out of her rental after Lu Zhou arranged to have her evicted, and she accepted Su Qingyan and Duan Xuanyu’s offer to stay with them. As Duan Hongxu helped her move, he schemed to separate her from Duan Xuanyu while Lu Zhou decided their relationship was over—though he still planned to keep watching her.

• Lu Zhou sent Su Mian 10,000 yuan and arranged for her landlady to make her leave the apartment, expecting her to move in with him.
• Su Mian recognized Lu Zhou’s scheme, accepted the money, and sent him mocking messages about his cake and funeral.
• Su Qingyan told Su Mian she planned to move in with Duan Xuanyu and invited her to stay with them; Su Mian agreed.
• Duan Hongxu arrived with a fleet of Cullinans and attendants to help Su Mian move, while she gave a ridiculous speech that was filmed and posted online.
• Lu Zhou watched the viral video, decided Su Mian’s part in his story was over, blocked her, then unblocked her and continued imagining her side story.
• Duan Hongxu tried to show off his physique to Su Mian while helping her move, then privately vowed to break her and Duan Xuanyu apart.

Su Mian visited the Duan Family estate, where her mother and Duan Chaoyang welcomed her, while Duan Hongxu continued plotting to break her and Duan Xuanyu apart. After Su Mian threw Duan Hongxu out of her room for asking her on a date, Duan Xuanyu watched him with murderous jealousy.

• Su Mian arrived at the Duan Family estate and told Duan Hongxu to stop calling her his little sister.
• Su Qingyan and Duan Chaoyang cheerfully posed for videos, while Duan Xuanyu arrived with their dog.
• Duan Hongxu studied historical records about Empress Su and resolved to seduce Su Mian so Duan Xuanyu could become a great emperor.
• Duan Hongxu asked Su Mian to date him, and she threw him out of her room after he said their step-sibling relationship made him more excited.
• Duan Xuanyu saw Duan Hongxu outside Su Mian's room and decided his descendant deserved death.

Duan Xuanyu abandoned his plan to strangle Duan Hongxu, who then tried to win Su Mian over with a public confession and a tale of hardship. After Su Mian sent him sliding across the floor, Duan Chaoyang warned Su Qingyan about Duan Hongxu’s hidden motives, and the chapter ended with Su Qingyan giving Su Mian ten million yuan to move out.

• Duan Xuanyu sneaked into Duan Hongxu’s room with white silk, but softened and claimed he had meant to try out a scarf for him.
• Duan Hongxu sent Su Mian a message about his elaborate drone confession and invited her to talk.
• Duan Hongxu told Su Mian he was broken by his painful childhood, but Su Mian shoved him down and sent him sliding across the floor.
• Duan Chaoyang told Su Qingyan that Duan Hongxu’s excessive kindness hid bad intentions and recounted how Duan Hongxu had secretly helped clear his name.
• Duan Chaoyang planned to use Duan Hongxu’s money to buy Su Mian a home, and Su Qingyan gave Su Mian a ten-million-yuan gold card to end their mother-daughter relationship.

Su Mian foresaw that Duan Chaoyang’s ex-wife, Qiu Ran, would be murdered at sea and urged him to warn her. After Su Qingyan explained Su Mian’s history of predicting tragedies, Duan Chaoyang believed her and called Qiu Ran, asking if she planned to go out to sea.

• Su Mian accepted Su Qingyan and Duan Chaoyang’s plan to stay in the house for now while they looked for a villa, and agreed to pretend to be estranged from her mother in front of Xuxu.
• Duan Chaoyang told Su Qingyan that he had been helping his ex-wife financially, and Su Qingyan supported him continuing to help her.
• Su Mian suddenly foresaw a bloodied middle-aged woman being thrown into the sea and asked Duan Chaoyang to show her a photo of his ex-wife.
• After seeing Qiu Ran’s photo, Su Mian warned that Qiu Ran’s life was in danger and told Duan Chaoyang to stop her from going out to sea.
• Su Qingyan told Duan Chaoyang about Su Mian’s childhood claims and past predictions, and Duan Chaoyang believed her.
• Duan Chaoyang repeatedly called Qiu Ran until she answered, then asked whether she planned to go out to sea.

Duan Chaoyang’s warning helped save Qiu Ran from her husband’s murder plot aboard the Feiyang, while Duan Hongxu’s attempt to flirt with Su Mian ended in terror when he thought he had snapped her neck. He returned to the house’s storage room with a large suitcase, where Duan Xuanyu confronted him.

• Duan Chaoyang warned Qiu Ran about danger and arranged for the Feiyang’s captain to keep watch over her.
• Qiu Ran’s husband attacked her, but a crew member intervened; the husband fell into the sea and was later found to have been plotting with his lover to kill her for insurance money.
• Duan Chaoyang told Duan Hongxu what happened, and Duan Hongxu messaged his mother before returning to pursue Su Mian.
• Duan Hongxu accidentally snapped Su Mian’s neck while trying to turn her head, but Su Mian sat up unharmed after he fled in terror.
• Duan Hongxu disabled the house’s surveillance cameras and carried a large empty suitcase from the storage room, where Duan Xuanyu confronted him.

Duan Hongxu and Duan Xuanyu searched the Duan Family residence for Su Mian, who had hidden in a cabinet to scare Duan Hongxu while wearing a peel-off face mask. After the misunderstanding was resolved, the three ate and watched films together, and Duan Xuanyu mistook Su Mian's praise for a confession.

• Duan Xuanyu and Duan Hongxu searched the residence for Su Mian, then Duan Hongxu checked the security footage while strange knocks sounded from his room.
• Duan Hongxu discovered Su Mian hiding in a cabinet, and Duan Xuanyu embraced her after mistaking her peeling face mask for a supernatural transformation.
• Su Mian explained the face mask, and the three went downstairs to eat fries and watch a film together.
• Duan Hongxu tried to steal a pastry Su Mian offered Duan Xuanyu, but Su Mian gave Duan Xuanyu another piece instead.
• After Su Mian praised Duan Xuanyu with the word “six,” he believed she had confessed her love, and Duan Hongxu corrected his misunderstanding.

Su Mian knocked an abusive motorcyclist’s bike back into a ditch before heading to a film audition, where Fang Nuonuo secretly recorded judges discussing Director Zhang’s apparent preference for Su Mian. In the waiting area, Su Mian recognized the woman who had rescued the biker and learned she was trying to tell her something by typing on her phone.

• Su Mian dodged a speeding motorcyclist, then watched him crash into a ditch and refuse to thank the black-and-white-haired woman who rescued him.
• Su Mian secretly knocked the motorcyclist’s bike back into the ditch and left for the audition.
• Su Mian greeted Fang Nuonuo at the audition venue and took a seat in the front row, while Fang Nuonuo blamed her for lost career opportunities.
• Fang Nuonuo let a rival mispronounce a character’s name, then recorded a producer and judge discussing Director Zhang’s plan to favor Su Mian and sent the recording to her manager.
• The black-and-white-haired woman sat beside Su Mian, struggled to speak, and showed her a message she had typed on her phone.

Su Mian and Yu Liqi auditioned for a wuxia film while Yu Liqi confronted her cousin Fang Nuonuo, whose past actions had helped make her socially anxious. Su Mian won the heroine’s role after an aerial fight test, and Fang Nuonuo secretly told her manager to release a recording.

• Yu Liqi thanked Su Mian for helping her and explained that she was auditioning for a maid with one line.
• Fang Nuonuo mocked Yu Liqi at the restroom, bringing up their rivalry and their strained history.
• Su Mian stopped an actress from leaving after the director criticized her mispronunciation, then watched Fang Nuonuo pronounce the same character correctly and deny noticing the mistake during rehearsal.
• Su Mian and Yu Liqi both passed their auditions, and five actresses advanced to the heroine’s second round.
• Su Mian impressed the creative team with her confident, graceful aerial fighting and was chosen as the heroine.
• Fang Nuonuo congratulated Su Mian, then messaged her manager to release the recording.

Su Mian won the female lead role, and the released audition footage disproved claims that the selection was rigged, while Fang Nuonuo struggled with her defeat. When Heartbeat Radio Waves resumed after a three-day break, new guest Duan Hongxu joined the show and hinted at his interest in Northern Liang’s customs around widows marrying their husbands’ brothers.

• After Su Mian’s audition, the crew discovered her directional wire had not been secured, and she had performed the flying movements on her own before winning the female lead role.
• Disarming at Dragon Gate released the unedited auditions, and viewers praised Su Mian’s skills as the rigging scandal turned into publicity for her and the film.
• Fang Nuonuo argued with her manager about losing to Su Mian, then remembered her cousin’s warning and realized that cousin had also been selected for the role.
• Heartbeat Radio Waves announced its three CP pairings and invited viewers to submit short-drama outlines, prompting a flood of mostly unsuitable submissions.
• When filming resumed, Yin Xiaohong introduced new male guest Duan Hongxu, who described himself as a history enthusiast and discussed Northern Liang’s widow-remarriage custom.

Su Mian walked to the filming location with Duan Xuanyu and the socially anxious Yu Liqi, who concealed her wealthy background and worried viewers had misunderstood her motives. At the mall, Yu Liqi reunited with her cousin Fang Nuonuo, and Su Mian discovered that Duan Hongxu had joined the show too.

• Yu Liqi sought out Su Mian, and the three walked together, bought milk tea, and chatted on the way to the subway.
• Yu Liqi saw viewers accusing her of pretending to be poor to deceive Su Mian, though she privately believed her work assignment justified it.
• At the filming location, Fang Nuonuo noticed her cousin Yu Liqi and messaged her manager about the unexpected casting.
• The other guests arrived, and Su Mian recognized Duan Hongxu and checked his Disgust Points.

Duan Hongxu arrived and immediately drew Su Mian into a playful rivalry with Duan Xuanyu, while Fang Nuonuo’s attempts to ingratiate herself fell flat. The guests learned they had to shop for a mountain-house stay on a strict budget, and Duan Hongxu ended by offering to ease Su Mian’s task if she begged him.

• Duan Hongxu greeted Su Mian affectionately, but she threw him to the ground after he rubbed her head, while Duan Xuanyu watched with satisfaction.
• Duan Hongxu dodged Fang Nuonuo’s attempt to help him up, and Gu Yichen made her repeat her whispered remark about Su Mian at normal volume.
• The production team assigned the three couples a hundred yuan each to buy necessities and food for the episode, with leftover money determining their choice of mountain house.
• The production team gave Duan Hongxu and the other new guest task slips they could use to make a chosen couple spend money.
• Duan Hongxu approached Su Mian and offered to make her task easier if she begged him.

Yu Liqi tried to avoid the dating show’s social pressure by insisting on online dating, then used her task to leave Fang Nuonuo and Gu Yichen nearly broke. Fang Nuonuo’s expensive watch revived her popularity, and she secretly gave a devoted fan Su Mian’s location while pretending to warn him away.

• Yin Xiaohong questioned why Yu Liqi kept following Su Mian, and Yu Liqi explained that she preferred secret crushes, long-distance relationships, and online dating.
• Yu Liqi rejected Su Mian’s invitation, made Fang Nuonuo draw a task, and had Fang treat her to an 88-yuan haircut.
• Yu Liqi left for the destination alone, leaving Fang Nuonuo and Gu Yichen with twelve yuan; they decided to buy food and later trade labor for supplies.
• Fang Nuonuo’s expensive watch appeared on camera, prompting viewers to recognize her as a wealthy heiress and bringing her followers back.
• Fang Nuonuo found a fan’s messages threatening Su Mian, then gave him Su Mian’s exact location while asking him not to come.

Su Mian used clever, low-cost tricks to prepare for the outing and then tried to feed Duan Hongxu without spending money. After he refused free supermarket samples, she took him to Haidilao, where they joined the lunchtime crowd and received complimentary snacks.

• Su Mian bought a five-liter jug of water and saved empty milk tea cups to use as toothbrushing cups, while Duan Xuanyu carried them and praised her.
• Duan Hongxu found Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu and had them draw a task; Su Mian drew a card requiring her to treat him to a full meal.
• Su Mian took Duan Hongxu to Yonghui Superstores and offered him a free cake sample, but he refused to eat supermarket samples.
• Su Mian led Duan Hongxu to Haidilao, where a server brought complimentary snacks and fruit, and she handed them to him.
• Duan Hongxu asked whether there was a more dignified way to fill his stomach, and Su Mian said there was.

Su Mian turned a tight shopping budget into a series of bargains and free supplies while Duan Xuanyu happily followed her around. As their team finished shopping and left the mall, an unknown man in an outdoor jacket began following them.

• Su Mian dressed herself and the Duan brothers in formal clothes for a meal at Haidilao, embarrassing Duan Hongxu until he fled.
• Su Mian compared online group-buy deals and used vouchers to buy daily necessities cheaply, then changed back into ordinary clothes to avoid drawing a crowd.
• Su Mian found mall promotions and shared them with the other guests, including a referral offer that gave her cashback to split with them.
• Cheng Qin, Lin Xi, Fang Nuonuo, Yu Liqi, and Duan Hongxu used Su Mian's referral link, helping her earn cashback as the teams finished shopping.
• Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu left the mall with their bags while a man in an outdoor jacket quietly followed them.

Su Qingyan stopped Su Mian’s anti-fan from carrying out an attack at the mall and beat him while security restrained him. After Su Mian learned her mother was safe and being questioned by police, the guests reached their destination and received a new secret-mission challenge.

• Su Qingyan pinned the man in the outdoor jacket to the floor and slapped him after discovering he had prepared abusive images and hired thugs to target Su Mian.
• Duan Chaoyang’s security guards restrained the hired thugs and the anti-fan, while onlookers recorded Su Qingyan’s attack and posted it online.
• Su Mian and the other guests finished their shopping task, chose their rooms, and took a high-speed train to their destination.
• Su Mian saw the trending videos, learned from Duan Chaoyang’s assistant that her mother was giving a statement, and thanked him.
• Sister Xiaohong announced a secret-mission challenge for three guests, and Su Mian received a private message telling her to check her mission.

Su Mian completed her secret mission by getting everyone in the train car to hear her say, “Honey, say something,” while Duan Hongxu’s attempt to embarrass her turned into an improvised scene. Duan Hongxu left after pretending to cry, still humiliated by the events.

• Duan Hongxu accused Su Mian of carrying his child to provoke her and Duan Xuanyu in front of the train passengers.
• Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu turned the accusation around, and Su Mian threatened the passengers who tried to film them.
• Su Mian called Duan Xuanyu “Honey” and told him to say something, completing her mission; Duan Xuanyu played along and asked her for a kiss.
• Su Mian explained that she had been joking, and the passengers relaxed when they realized the scandal was fake.
• Duan Hongxu pretended to break down crying, then admitted he had been acting and left the carriage.

On the train, Su Mian tried to muddy the waters by encouraging Cheng Qin to perform suspicious actions and making Yu Liqi an unwitting distraction. The journey ended at the station, where the identities of the three mission holders and their missions were about to be revealed.

• Cheng Qin announced that she wanted to marry Duan Hongxu, then broke character while describing him as the Buddhist scion of Beijing's elite.
• Su Mian sent Yu Liqi an inaudible voice message and encouraged the guests to suspect that Yu Liqi's mission involved contacting her.
• Su Mian persuaded Cheng Qin to spy on Lin Xi's phone, and Cheng Qin accused him of acting out a mission when he took her phone in return.
• Su Mian and Cheng Qin tried to make Fang Nuonuo and Gu Yichen seem suspicious by asking about their possible missions.
• The train arrived after three hours, and the host prepared to reveal the three mission holders and their missions.

The guests guessed each other’s hidden missions on the bus, and Duan Xuanyu and Su Mian shared a close moment before Duan Hongxu interrupted them. After arriving at the film studio complex, Su Mian kicked away a strange packet before Duan Xuanyu could inspect it.

• Yin Xiaohong revealed that Yu Liqi correctly guessed Cheng Qin’s mission, while Lin Xi and Fang Nuonuo failed to guess Su Mian’s mission.
• Duan Xuanyu correctly identified Duan Hongxu’s mission to cry and then laugh loudly, and the host revealed that Su Mian’s mission was to say, “Honey, say something.”
• Su Mian gave Cheng Qin most of her mosquito-repellent rewards as promised, and the livestream ended early.
• On the bus, Duan Xuanyu told Su Mian how a foggy forest had brought him to the modern world, and the two drew close until Duan Hongxu interrupted them.
• After the guests reached the film studio complex, Su Mian kicked away a strange packet before Duan Xuanyu could examine it.

Su Mian worried that Duan Xuanyu might repeat the dangerous habits that history blamed for his death, while he promised to take control of his fate. After reading bizarre fanfiction about them, she grew concerned when he failed to answer from the bathroom and kicked the door open.

• Su Mian learned that Duan Xuanyu already knew about betel nut and warned him not to take up dangerous habits, recalling the conflicting accounts of his death.
• Duan Xuanyu asked if Su Mian was worried about him and vowed to decide his own fate, planning to eliminate his second uncle when he returned to ancient times.
• Su Mian reassured her mother that she was safe and that a lawyer was handling the case against the extremist anti-fan.
• Su Mian read fanfiction about herself and Duan Xuanyu, including stories portraying him as her loyal puppy and as a tyrant reformed by her.
• Su Mian noticed Duan Xuanyu had been in the shower for nearly an hour, got no answer when she called, and kicked open the bathroom door.

Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu wrestled in the bathtub after he tricked her, while the other guests discussed their motives and plans during a sleepless night. The production team posted edited footage that sparked speculation about the couple, and the new day began with breakfast.

• Duan Xuanyu pulled Su Mian into the bathtub, teased her about caring for him, and called her “wifey” before she kicked him out.
• Lin Xi borrowed mosquito supplies from Cheng Qin, and they told each other they were interested in Su Mian.
• Fang Nuonuo borrowed mosquito-repelling herbs from Gu Yichen, learned his mother had made him join the show, and planned a good deed to reclaim her glory.
• Fang Nuonuo saw trending topics about Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu and vowed to reclaim the glory she believed belonged to her.
• The production team posted edited footage of the guests’ late-night moments, and viewers speculated about what Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu had done in the bathroom.
• The show began its new day as the staff delivered breakfast to each group.

Duan Xuanyu and the other male guests faced a work challenge while the female guests entered a cooking competition, with points determining who could switch partners that evening. After a headhunter found Duan Xuanyu only a poorly paid extras job, he resolved to earn more than the other men to keep Su Mian.

• Duan Xuanyu used chopsticks to unclog the bathroom drain, while viewers mistakenly thought he had gone there to eat something disgusting.
• The production team announced that the men would earn money and the women would cook, with the highest-scoring guest gaining the right to switch partners.
• Duan Hongxu decided not to try hard at earning money and arranged for a headhunter to meet Duan Xuanyu.
• Gu Yichen went to a hospital to see patients, while Lin Xi set out with security guards to collect debts.
• The headhunter classified Duan Xuanyu as illiterate and intellectually disabled after hearing about his Imperial Academy education and past roles.
• Duan Xuanyu learned that an extras job paid little and vowed to earn more than the other men to protect his relationship with Su Mian.

Su Mian accepted Lu Zhou’s repeated money transfers, rejected him in favor of Duan Xuanyu, and teased him with a nearly impossible coupon link as his engagement to Xu Qingyun approached. Meanwhile, Duan Xuanyu went to an antique market and bought a porcelain ewer that viewers and an expert identified as fake.

• Su Mian accepted Lu Zhou’s transfers, told him she would choose Duan Xuanyu, and sent him a link promising a five-hundred-yuan wedding gift if he could recruit friends to help.
• Lu Zhou warned Su Mian not to accept more money and said he would marry next month, while she joked that he would have to earn the last cent himself.
• Xu Qingyun showed Lu Zhou a gown for their engagement banquet, but Lu Zhou urged her to reconsider marrying him.
• Relationship experts criticized Duan Xuanyu as a shallow, impractical choice, while viewers suspected Lu Zhou had arranged the renewed commentary.
• Duan Xuanyu visited the Heavenly Empress Temple, noticed its statue resembled Su Mian, and then went to a nearby antique street.
• Duan Xuanyu bought a green-glazed porcelain ewer for one hundred yuan, and an antiques blogger identified it as an obvious fake.

Duan Xuanyu revealed a genuine bronze lion to wealthy antiques collector Ms. Mo and agreed to sell it to her. He then said his real reason for approaching her was to recover a love token he had given the person he loved.

• Duan Xuanyu approached Ms. Mo after her boyfriend left, corrected her interpretation of an old saying, and offered her a pot for ten million.
• Ms. Mo dismissed the pot as a fake, so Duan Xuanyu broke it apart and revealed the genuine Tailless Bronze Lion from Emperor Xiaowu of Northern Liang's reign.
• Duan Xuanyu defended Emperor Xiaowu against Ms. Mo's accusations, and she grew interested in buying the bronze lion.
• Duan Xuanyu readily accepted Ms. Mo's half-price offer, and she began writing him a check.
• Duan Xuanyu told Ms. Mo that he wanted the item she had posted online three days earlier because it was the love token he had given the person he loved.