Recaps

Duan Xuanyu arranged for jewelry and other treasures to be buried at the Temple of the Heavenly Empress before returning to the modern era, where he and Su Mian resumed filming without telling anyone about their trip. Su Mian searched historical records to learn whether history had changed, while Duan Xuanyu went to see if the buried treasures had survived.

• Duan Xuanyu ordered Xiang Yi to bury his gifts for Su Mian beneath a brick in the Temple of the Heavenly Empress before the time for his return ran out.
• Duan Xuanyu returned to the film set, and he and Su Mian finished filming without revealing that they had transmigrated.
• Duan Xuanyu told the production team he had been injured and left the set to dig up the buried treasures.
• Su Mian searched historical records and found conflicting accounts that still said Duan Xuanyu had died after Prince Sheng's son rebelled.
• The production team gave secret missions to every guest except Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu.

Su Mian stayed in a corner searching for information about Duan Xuanyu while the other guests tried to lure her away for the production team’s secret mission. After Lin Xi, Yu Liqi, and Cheng Qin failed to move her, Fang Nuonuo approached with a request to rehearse lines.

• Yin Xiaohong announced a secret mission to get Su Mian to leave her spot, offering daily necessities as a reward.
• Su Mian continued searching for evidence that Duan Xuanyu had survived after becoming emperor.
• Lin Xi tried to draw Su Mian into conversation, but she brushed him off.
• Yu Liqi pretended to have a headache, and Su Mian told her to take the old man to the hospital.
• Cheng Qin pretended to fear a goose, but Su Mian asked whether she had agreed to go out with it.
• Fang Nuonuo approached Su Mian with the episode script and asked her to rehearse lines.

Fang Nuonuo and the other guests tried and failed to make Su Mian leave her spot, while Duan Hongxu accidentally exposed the videos recommended on Duan Xuanyu’s phone. Gu Yichen remained the last guest to try, and he prepared to use a method he believed would work.

• Fang Nuonuo claimed she needed to rehearse with Su Mian, but Su Mian dismissed her excuse and stayed seated.
• Duan Hongxu tried to take Su Mian’s phone, but its strap kept it attached to her hand, and she kicked him away.
• Duan Hongxu realized he had Duan Xuanyu’s phone and tried to threaten Su Mian by browsing it, but the recommendations showed videos about Su Mian, male models, and eunuchs.
• Viewers mistook the eunuch-related recommendations for Duan Hongxu’s personal searches, and he protested that the phone was not his.
• Gu Yichen observed the other guests’ failed attempts and prepared to try his own method.

Gu Yichen failed to get Su Mian to help him earn a replenishment pack, and Fang Nuonuo’s attempt to bond with him by criticizing Su Mian backfired. Su Mian returned to find that Duan Xuanyu had dug up a trove of jewelry for her, while he kept his time travel secret.

• Gu Yichen told Su Mian that helping him move would earn a replenishment pack, but she teased him with disposable chopsticks instead of helping.
• After the mission ended, Fang Nuonuo complained to Gu Yichen about Su Mian, and he suggested that Su Mian avoided helping because Fang Nuonuo was his housemate.
• Fang Nuonuo tried to win Gu Yichen’s sympathy by crying, but he took away the last tissues to avoid wasting them.
• Su Mian wondered whether Duan Xuanyu knew about his historical fate, then returned to their residence without asking him directly.
• Su Mian found jewelry covering her bed, and Duan Xuanyu said he had dug it up from a temple before offering her another gift.

Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu shared a tender moment as he admitted that the years with her had made his life worthwhile, while she teased him about his romantic lines. Meanwhile, the production team changed the short drama’s happy ending into a massacre and arranged a dating challenge where the guests could earn chances to rewrite it or win supplies.

• Duan Xuanyu showed Su Mian the darksteel rod’s hidden blade and barbs, and she admired it while worrying that the person she had saved might still die.
• Duan Xuanyu told Su Mian that the three years he had spent with her made his life more meaningful, but she joked that he had learned his words from a male model blogger.
• At an emergency meeting, Director Zhao complained that the dating show’s guests were treating the production like work and discussed ways to help them without making it obvious.
• Director Zhao announced that a new script had changed the short drama’s happy ending to one where a refugee rebellion killed the entire main cast.
• Heartbeat Radio Waves announced a day of dating challenges in which guests could earn script-editing privileges or living supplies by raising their partners’ heart rates above 120.

Su Mian and the other guests dressed their partners according to drawn keywords for the first part of their dates, hoping to make each other's hearts race and earn permission to revise the drama's ending. The guests left for their dates in wildly mismatched outfits.

• Su Mian invited the cast to work together on a happy ending, but Gu Yichen, Duan Hongxu, and Fang Nuonuo declined for their own reasons.
• Gu Yichen dressed Fang Nuonuo in a tracksuit, while she chose a mature suit for him.
• Su Mian dressed Duan Xuanyu in a military-training uniform and camouflage backpack, while he chose a red gown for her; his heartbeat reached 150, but hers did not change.
• Yu Liqi dressed Duan Hongxu in a Japanese soldier's uniform, and he chose an absurd outfit for her before she changed into a striped hospital gown.
• Cheng Qin dressed Lin Xi in a T-shirt featuring a game character, while Lin Xi chose a cleaner's uniform for her.
• The guests set off for the next part of their dates in their mismatched outfits.

Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu tried to raise their heart rates while completing dating-show tasks on a pedestrian street, and Duan Xuanyu surprised her by playing along with her teasing. They recommitted to changing their ending and continued searching for excitement, still followed by two mysterious people.

• Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu noticed two strangers following them but decided to ignore them and look for excitement.
• Duan Hongxu tried to entice Su Mian with his chance to rewrite the ending, but she baited him into touching her skirt and slapped him for acting like a pervert.
• Duan Xuanyu left the milk tea shop without buying anything after deciding to take Su Mian for a more expensive drink.
• Su Mian used the same skirt trick on Duan Xuanyu, but he calmly turned the teasing around and called her “Stepmom,” drawing attention from passersby.
• Su Mian saw her heart rate rise, praised Duan Xuanyu’s response, and the two agreed to keep trying to rewrite their ending.
• The two mysterious followers quietly continued after Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu as they searched for more excitement.

Duan Xuanyu took Su Mian to buy coffee, revealing that he had secretly sold antiques and now had two hundred million. After they ran into influencer couple Mimi and Xixi, Su Mian turned their attempt to get free coffee into a microloan application, and the pair left with the coffee safely in her hands.

• Duan Xuanyu told Su Mian he had brought two hundred million, which he had secretly made by selling antiques.
• Duan Xuanyu and Su Mian bought coffee at Starbucks and completed their task.
• Mimi and Xixi approached Su Mian, borrowed her coffee for a video, and hinted that she should treat them because they were poor.
• Su Mian used Xixi's phone to apply for a microloan for the couple, then reclaimed her coffee when Mimi complained.
• Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu left after insulting Mimi and Xixi, while Duan Xuanyu privately enjoyed Su Mian's possessiveness over the coffee he had bought.

Su Mian helped Cheng Qin and Lin Xi earn character-edit permissions while Mimi and Xixi tried to exploit her popularity and bragged about their relationship at the same restaurant. The chapter ended with Duan Xuanyu innocently mistaking Xixi’s claimed stats for height, weight, and IQ, leaving Mimi and Xixi furious.

• Mimi and Xixi complained that Su Mian had not helped them, then used a fan’s red packet and a possessive-boyfriend video to boost their account by riding her popularity.
• Su Mian advised Cheng Qin to chase Lin Xi with a mop so their exercise would raise their heart rates and earn character-edit permissions.
• Cheng Qin chased Lin Xi around with a mop until they had accumulated more than a dozen uses, and Lin Xi learned Su Mian had helped arrange the plan.
• Mimi and Xixi entered the café, filmed themselves presenting a fan-bought meal, and sat beside Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu.
• Mimi bragged about Xixi’s stats as 180, 150, and 20, and Su Mian clarified that the last number meant IQ.
• Duan Xuanyu concluded that Xixi’s IQ was very low, leaving Mimi and Xixi scowling.

Su Mian discovered that a server had risked his wages to keep contaminated food from reaching her table, and she rewarded him while warning him about a coming danger. The chapter ended with the server protected from the incident in her death forecast, while Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu remained alert to what might happen to Mimi and Xixi.

• Xixi claimed he was 165 centimeters tall after Duan Xuanyu teased him about needing a high chair, then he and Mimi ordered a meal and fawned over each other.
• Su Mian received a death forecast showing a server dying after Xixi shoved him, so she asked Duan Xuanyu to intervene if anyone was endangered.
• Su Mian overheard a chef admitting that a cleaning rag had fallen into her food and saw a server throw the contaminated dish away rather than serve it.
• Su Mian sent the server a video of the incident and warned him to stay away from Mimi and Xixi if trouble broke out.
• Su Mian reported the chef to the manager, who waived the meal bill, docked the chef’s wages, and gave the server a thousand-yuan bonus.

Su Mian’s kindness won her a wave of public support and new commercial opportunities, while she weighed her growing attachments against her desire to return home. At dinner, Mimi and Xixi’s argument over an extra charge gave Su Mian an idea.

• A waiter praised Su Mian online for her kindness, and the post drew widespread attention that boosted her endorsements and attracted major brands.
• Sister Li told Su Mian that Starry might reward her with equity, and Su Mian wondered whether she could gain a say in the company and its show.
• Su Mian reflected on her fans and loved ones in this world, then reminded herself that her family, cat, and dog in her original timeline were waiting for her.
• Duan Xuanyu ignored his system’s prompts and kept peeling shrimp for Su Mian as the system began loading a cheat for him.
• Mimi and Xixi argued over who should pay for an extra plate of crab, and their dispute drew criticism from viewers watching the livestream.
• When Xixi complained about his five-year-old phone, Su Mian saw an opportunity.

Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu witnessed Mimi choke on a bone, then watched Xixi attack the server who saved her. As Mimi and Xixi faced the manager’s police call, Su Mian explained why their audience defended them, while Duan Xuanyu’s heart rate soared as he remembered their past in Northern Liang.

• Su Mian turned Mimi and Xixi’s phone conversation into an advertisement for Zhuanquanquan, and they retaliated by kissing to attract attention.
• Mimi choked on a bone, and the server performed the Heimlich Maneuver while Xixi slapped him and shoved him toward a marble table.
• Duan Xuanyu caught the server before he hit the table, and Mimi coughed up the bone but sided with Xixi as he demanded compensation.
• The manager defended the server and called the police, while Su Mian found that viewers were praising Xixi and blaming the server.
• Su Mian explained to Duan Xuanyu how Mimi and Xixi’s account appealed to viewers, and Duan Xuanyu remembered her defending him during the locust plague in Northern Liang as his heart rate climbed.

Su Mian exposed Mimi and Xixi’s fake hardship persona after they mocked their fans, ruining their online reputations. She then kept trying to make Duan Xuanyu’s heart race during their date, while his cheat continued loading.

• The waiter apologized after police mediated the restaurant incident, then followed Duan Xuanyu online and thanked him for saving him.
• Mimi and Xixi waited for Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu to resume streaming, laughing about their fans’ sympathy and red packets while planning to keep pretending to be poor.
• Su Mian revealed that Mimi and Xixi had privately mocked their fans, causing their followers to turn against them and Xixi to charge at her before Duan Xuanyu tripped him.
• Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu compared their heart-racing counts, then she tried a wordplay trick that barely affected him and continued their date itinerary.
• Su Mian made Duan Xuanyu jealous by claiming she had answered every suitor’s messages, but when he said his heart hurt, she vaulted over him instead of comforting him.
• Duan Xuanyu heard that his cheat was 85% loaded and that it would soon stop Su Mian from toying with him.

Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu flirted during their date, and he used his newly unlocked time-rewind ability to kiss her repeatedly after she slapped him. The ability expired, and they left the photo booth with Duan Xuanyu hiding the reason for the handprints on his face.

• Su Mian teased Duan Xuanyu by stuffing a tissue into his mouth, then leapt over him again when he asked her to.
• Duan Xuanyu caught Su Mian, carried her over his shoulder, and made her promise to jump over no other man's head.
• In the photo booth, Duan Xuanyu tied Su Mian's hair with a red ribbon while she discussed their work and her plans for the future.
• Duan Xuanyu learned that his system's time-rewind skill worked, kissed Su Mian, and rewound time to kiss her again after each slap.
• The system shut itself down after Duan Xuanyu used up the one-minute skill, and Su Mian later noticed handprints on his face that looked like hers.

The guests revised the drama’s ending, but Fang Nuonuo used her edits to make herself the emperor’s true love and sole ruler. Su Mian revealed that five character edits remained and had been saved for Fang Nuonuo, leaving the final story unsettled.

• Cheng Qin gathered the guests’ requests and revised the ending so the characters pursued their own paths after the rebellion.
• Duan Hongxu changed the deposed emperor’s fate from becoming a monk to ascending to immortality.
• Fang Nuonuo rewrote a pivotal scene so the emperor loved her, other powerful men protected her, and she became the sole ruler.
• Duan Xuanyu said he would rather be written dead than love anyone but Su Mian.
• Su Mian revealed that five unused character edits had been saved for Fang Nuonuo.

Su Mian used five character changes to turn Fang Nuonuo’s romantic palace-intrigue script into a humiliating comedy, and the guests finished filming the announced finale and a surprise extra episode. Su Mian also reconsidered her mission target, while the extra episode’s explosive title promised more trouble.

• Su Mian changed Fang Nuonuo’s script with five vulgar edits, turning the consort dowager into a humiliating figure and making Duan Xuanyu feel that Su Mian had stood up for him.
• Dai Qing told Fang Nuonuo that her character would transform into a turtle spirit, and the production team announced an explosive extra episode.
• Fang Nuonuo asked Gu Yichen to share his daily necessities, but he refused; Su Mian wondered what might eventually make him fall for Fang Nuonuo and considered replacing Duan Xuanyu as her mission target.
• During the next two days of filming, Su Mian teased Fang Nuonuo about picking up leaves and her jaw muscles, and Fang Nuonuo avoided provoking her.
• The guests finished filming the short drama’s finale, in which one character ascended to immortality and Fang Nuonuo’s character became a turtle, then revealed the extra episode’s title: “The Seven Deadly Sins.”

A satirical bonus film featuring the dating-show guests went viral, while Fang Nuonuo began to suspect that the attention and affection she expected had shifted to Su Mian. Su Mian headed to the Duan family home with Duan Xuanyu and learned she would appear on Zhou Tian Interview, where Yu Liqi warned her about the host.

• The bonus film portrayed the guests in absurd roles inspired by the seven deadly sins and became a trending hit.
• Fang Nuonuo found that online discussions focused on Su Mian and felt that the men and attention should originally have been hers.
• Fang Nuonuo's agent told her that Su Mian had taken her scheduled spot on Zhou Tian Interview, and Fang Nuonuo hoped Su Mian would offend its arrogant host, Zhou Tian.
• Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu rode with Duan Hongxu toward the Duan family home, and Duan Hongxu complained that they were staying with him.
• Yu Liqi messaged Su Mian to warn her about Zhou Tian's pitfalls before the interview.

Yu Liqi told Su Mian how Zhou Tian had ruined her journalism career over imagined workplace etiquette violations, and how a supportive boss helped her start over. Back at the Duan Family home, Duan Hongxu questioned why Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu still used each other’s full names despite knowing each other for years.

• Yu Liqi recounted how Zhou Tian had dismissed her from her internship and used his influence to block her from finding work after she failed to meet his expectations about a car and toasting etiquette.
• Yu Liqi explained that her current boss had once followed such workplace rules herself, then started her own agency and told Yu Liqi to focus on doing her job rather than drinking or pleasing seniors.
• Su Mian agreed with Yu Liqi’s criticism of old-fashioned workplace power games and thanked her for the advice.
• Su Mian, Duan Xuanyu, and Duan Hongxu returned to the Duan Family home, where Su Mian asked about her stick and Duan Xuanyu said he had put it in her suitcase.
• Duan Hongxu noticed Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu calling each other by their full names and asked why they still did so after knowing each other for years.

Su Mian returned home to a welcome celebration and learned that Duan Chaoyang had quietly prepared medical supplies for Su Qingyan after her surgery. Su Qingyan shared a dream that seemed to reveal how she had died in Su Mian’s previous life, and the chapter ended when Sister Li called Su Mian with an urgent problem.

• Su Mian rejected Duan Xuanyu’s suggested nicknames and decided to call him by his name, while he reflected on how much he cherished hearing and saying it.
• Su Qingyan and Duan Chaoyang welcomed Su Mian home with party poppers, and Duan Chaoyang mistakenly thought Su Qingyan had said she needed to pee.
• Su Qingyan found women’s medical diapers and a handwritten note Duan Chaoyang had prepared for her postoperative symptoms, and she was moved by his care.
• Su Qingyan told Su Mian that she had dreamed under anesthesia of secretly killing herself to avoid burdening her daughter with medical expenses.
• Su Mian comforted her mother, and they talked together until after midnight.
• Sister Li called Su Mian and said an urgent matter had come up.

Su Mian went to meet Zhou Tian before her interview, while Fang Nuonuo tried to win his favor and undermine Su Mian. Fang Nuonuo left expecting Zhou Tian to punish Su Mian for arriving without a gift, unaware of what would happen next.

• Sister Li told Su Mian that Zhou Tian wanted to meet her for a meal, and Su Mian agreed to come early with a gift despite privately recalling his vindictive behavior.
• Fang Nuonuo encountered Xu Qingyun at the hotel, where Xu Qingyun revealed she still planned to hold her engagement banquet with Lu Zhou and believed Su Mian had changed her life.
• Fang Nuonuo gave Zhou Tian expensive pu'er tea, criticized Su Mian, and chatted with him in hopes of earning his favor.
• Su Mian arrived and mocked Fang Nuonuo about her past lack of toilet paper, leaving Fang Nuonuo unable to keep smiling.
• Fang Nuonuo left the hotel, expecting Zhou Tian to put Su Mian in her place, and went home to watch for news of Su Mian's reputation collapsing.

Su Mian humiliated Zhou Tian at a business dinner, refusing to cater to his abuse because she had leverage with Starry Entertainment. Afterward, she gave his injured assistant bandages, and the assistant silently predicted Zhou Tian would soon disappear from the world.

• Zhou Tian berated his assistant and lectured Su Mian about bringing gifts and workplace etiquette.
• Su Mian mocked Zhou Tian, poured a toast onto the floor, and called to him as if he were a pig while serving him food.
• Zhou Tian lost his temper and stormed out, while the executives stayed silent because Su Mian's endorsement deals gave her leverage.
• Su Mian left the dinner before Lu Zhou could speak to her, then found Zhou Tian's assistant tending to her bloodied heels in the restroom.
• Su Mian gave the assistant bandages, and the assistant silently thought that Zhou Tian would soon disappear from the world.

Su Mian rejected Lu Zhou’s attempt to reconnect, while Duan Xuanyu intervened and mocked him as his “mom.” Outside the hotel, Su Mian witnessed Zhou Tian’s assistant run him over, leaving her stunned as bystanders called for help.

• Lu Zhou told Su Mian he had ended his engagement with the Xu Family, but she warned him that he would soon lose his CEO seat.
• Duan Xuanyu secretly shot Lu Zhou in the knee with a borrowed toy gun, then slapped him and declared himself Lu Zhou’s mother.
• Su Mian left Lu Zhou behind and waited outside the hotel while Zhou Tian planned to smear her to the media.
• Zhou Tian’s assistant drove into him without stopping, and Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu went over to see what had happened.

Su Mian learned that Zhou Tian had built his career by twisting victims’ stories to excuse abusers, and that his assistant had run him over to avenge her murdered sister. Just as Su Mian was about to help spread the reports, Sister Li told her Zhou Tian was alive and using his connections to smear Su Mian.

• Zhou Tian’s assistant confessed at the accident scene that she had deliberately run him over to avenge her sister.
• Yu Liqi arrived to report on the accident, and she told Su Mian that her outlet’s reports revealed the story behind the revenge.
• Su Mian read Yu Liqi’s series, which showed how Zhou Tian’s misleading reports had excused wrongdoing and vilified victims, including the assistant’s murdered sister.
• The assistant said she would accept responsibility and hoped the story would clear her family’s name.
• Sister Li called Su Mian and said Zhou Tian was alive, had influential media outlets portraying Su Mian as a diva, and wanted the company to help repair her image.

Su Mian went to visit Zhou Tian after his car accident, while online rumors and Fang Nuonuo’s insinuations fueled criticism of her. At the hospital, she told the waking Zhou Tian that his injured leg had been taken in a body bag.

• Sister Li confirmed Zhou Tian had been in a serious car accident and warned Su Mian that media outlets were blaming her, but Su Mian refused to record an explanation and decided to visit him.
• Su Mian bought a black dress and veiled hat instead of gifts; she traded teasing remarks with Duan Xuanyu, who followed her to the hospital.
• The dating show secretly livestreamed Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu, drawing viewers who argued over her behavior and attacked her for supposedly visiting Zhou Tian dressed for a funeral.
• Starry Entertainment denied that Su Mian had been late and said she was going to the hospital, while Fang Nuonuo implied Su Mian had spent the night with a male guest and reinforced the accusations.
• Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu reached the hospital after Zhou Tian woke up; when he worried that he could not feel his right leg, Su Mian told him it had been taken in a body bag.

Su Mian exposed Zhou Tian’s pattern of victim-blaming reports after publicly mocking him for his injuries, turning public attention toward the assistant and her family’s ordeal. As the backlash against her began to shift, Duan Xuanyu realized why she had provoked Zhou Tian, and Su Mian began to confess that her own former work had been just as wicked.

• Su Mian mocked the injured Zhou Tian, offered to pay for another amputation, and traded dark jokes with Duan Xuanyu until Zhou Tian passed out and doctors sent them away.
• After noticing the show’s cameraman had followed them, Su Mian reposted Zhou Tian’s reports and urged viewers to examine how his wording distorted cases and blamed victims.
• Viewers recognized that Zhou Tian’s media outlets had smeared the assistant and her family, and public opinion began to turn in their favor.
• At a park, Duan Xuanyu understood that Su Mian had drawn attention to restore the assistant’s family reputation, while Zhou Tian faced lasting disability and disgrace.
• When Duan Xuanyu asked what was on her mind, Su Mian admitted that the work she had done in her original world had been just as wicked, and he asked what work it was.