Recaps

Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu joined the school mission, where Duan Xuanyu’s lesson on ancient Chinese technology won students’ support before Fang Nuonuo overtook him with promises to help them. Su Mian impressed the students with her athletic feats and kindness toward Duan Hongxu’s classmates, while Duan Hongxu began to understand why someone liked her so much.

• Su Mian interrupted an emotional moment with Duan Xuanyu by doing push-ups, and he lifted her to her feet before the guests began their school mission.
• Duan Xuanyu taught students about ancient Chinese technology and explained that foreign invasions had destroyed many of its inventions, earning their anger and votes.
• Fang Nuonuo gained votes by promising to speak to the students’ parents on their behalf.
• Su Mian caught a basketball, performed tricks and stunts, and raised her vote count with the students.
• Su Mian opened a juice bottle with her teeth and poured drinks for Duan Hongxu’s classmates, who appreciated her efforts to help him fit in.
• Duan Hongxu gave Su Mian a chicken drumstick and told her he understood why someone liked her so much.

Su Mian and Duan Hongxu joined Duan Xuanyu for an evening shopping trip, where Duan Xuanyu threw Duan Hongxu after he proposed returning to the ancient world alone. The next day, the guests took the students to the beach, where Duan Hongxu grew jealous of the children gathering around Su Mian.

• Duan Hongxu told Su Mian about his childhood school transfers and wished he had had an elder to help him, but Su Mian reminded him it was for the show.
• Su Mian rose to fourth place in the student vote rankings, while Fang Nuonuo stayed first, Duan Xuanyu second, and Gu Yichen third.
• Su Mian bought skincare products for Duan Xuanyu and Duan Hongxu, then overheard Duan Hongxu joke about replacing her expensive cream with his own.
• Duan Hongxu suggested Duan Xuanyu return to the ancient world while he and Su Mian stayed in the modern world, so Duan Xuanyu threw him over his shoulder.
• Su Mian and the other guests arrived at the beach for the second day's activities, and Duan Hongxu pushed through the children surrounding her.

Duan Xuanyu staged a drowning to draw Su Mian to him, then reminded her of their history and asked her to teach him to swim or love. After their underwater encounter, Su Mian surfaced with her disguise washed away and her diving suit torn, putting her at risk of early elimination.

• Duan Hongxu shooed the children away from Su Mian, while the guests tried to earn votes by spending time with them.
• Duan Xuanyu joined the children snorkeling and pretended to drown so Su Mian would come save him.
• Duan Xuanyu reminded Su Mian that she had saved him three years earlier and promised to teach him, then pulled her underwater and asked her to teach him to swim or love.
• Su Mian realized Duan Xuanyu had faked his helplessness, dragged him underwater, and saved him again after he choked on seawater.
• Duan Xuanyu noticed the red hair ribbon Su Mian wore, and the two repeatedly sank beneath the surface while their audio equipment stopped recording clearly.
• Su Mian emerged with her old-age makeup washed off and her diving suit torn, then heard the host warn that students who uncovered a guest's disguised identity could get that guest eliminated early.

Su Mian helped Gu Yuanqiu uncover how Fang Nuonuo was encouraging Gu Yichen to pursue a music career, while Gu Yichen rejected his mother's request to quit the show. The chapter ended with Gu Yuanqiu offering Su Mian an endorsement contract and asking her to help her son debut, despite his terrible singing.

• Duan Xuanyu carried Su Mian from the sea, then joked online that her shoulder scar was a crease in a love letter she had given him.
• Fang Nuonuo arranged professional equipment so Gu Yichen could perform and win votes, while Su Mian secretly reported their conversation to Gu Yuanqiu.
• Gu Yuanqiu called Gu Yichen and urged him to stop filming, but he declared that he wanted to live his own life, hung up, and blocked her.
• Gu Yuanqiu told Su Mian she would help Gu Yichen debut and explained that his singing was awful, then sent Su Mian an endorsement contract and asked her to help him.

Su Mian helped Gu Yuanqiu arrange remote vocal tuning for Gu Yichen, then deliberately provoked him until she maxed out his Disgust Points and completed his mission target. Gu Yichen rejected the help and vowed to succeed without his family, while Su Mian looked ahead to finishing the remaining mission.

• Su Mian agreed to connect equipment for Gu Yuanqiu so a vocal tuner could help Gu Yichen remotely.
• Yu Liqi confided her insecurities to Su Mian, who praised her independence and criticized Gu Yichen for taking his family’s support for granted.
• Fang Nuonuo saw Su Mian working backstage with Gu Yuanqiu and told Gu Yichen, who confronted Su Mian and ended her video call.
• Su Mian admitted that she had told Gu Yuanqiu about Gu Yichen’s plans because she wanted the spokesperson contract, then taunted him until his Disgust Points reached their maximum.
• Gu Yichen refused the vocal tuner and declared that he would prove he could succeed without his family; Su Mian urged him to get started.

Gu Yichen’s disastrous singing drove the beach crowd away until Su Mian joined in and brought the song back on key. After his confidence took a hit, Su Mian launched into an energetic dance that got the children and Duan Xuanyu cheering, while Gu Yichen realized the audience had moved on from his performance.

• Gu Yichen performed a guitar song, but his off-key singing shocked the crowd and sent people fleeing.
• Su Mian joined Gu Yichen with a microphone and helped the song sound pleasing, earning applause from the beachgoers.
• Gu Yichen learned from the livestream comments that viewers had disliked his singing, and Yin Xiaohong bluntly confirmed it had hurt his looks.
• Su Mian began chanting and dancing energetically, drawing the children and Duan Xuanyu into cheering for her.
• Gu Yichen saw that Su Mian had captured the crowd’s attention and concluded that he had not embarrassed himself as badly as he feared.

Gu Yichen reconciled with his mother and resolved to help Su Mian win the cultural relic, while Fang Nuonuo arranged a school event to strengthen her lead in the vote. Su Mian disrupted the education expert’s guilt-based lecture with her rhinestone manicure, and the expert prepared to try another tactic.

• Gu Yichen apologized to Gu Yuanqiu, who forgave him but told him to apologize to Su Mian and help her; he decided to support her by getting his student followers to vote for her.
• Gu Yichen told Fang Nuonuo he did not blame her, then left; Fang Nuonuo saw that Su Mian had climbed into second place and worried she might lose the lead.
• Fang Nuonuo invited the parents to a school meeting and arranged for an acclaimed education expert to come from home that night.
• Su Mian attended the meeting with Duan Hongxu and fell asleep as the expert lectured about parents’ sacrifices, then woke when he told the students to hold their relatives’ hands.
• When Duan Hongxu said Su Mian’s rhinestone manicure had scratched his palm, Su Mian showed it off, making the parents laugh and angering the expert.
• The expert decided to use his next tactic to make the children feel guilty.

At a school event, Su Mian stopped an expert from forcing children to wash their parents’ feet and defended education without guilt or shame. She left the auditorium praised by the crowd, while Duan Hongxu was mortified by her compliment about his boogers.

• The expert scolded Duan Hongxu for playing video games, but Duan Hongxu explained that his whole family played Honor of Kings together.
• The expert told students to wash their parents’ feet in public, prompting objections from parents, students, and foreign attendees.
• Su Mian took the microphone and denounced guilt-based education, defending equal education and saying children should not feel guilty for their parents’ choices.
• When the expert questioned whether Duan Hongxu would become useful to society, Su Mian said she would be proud of him regardless and praised his ability to roll round boogers.
• The crowd applauded Su Mian and voted for her, while Duan Hongxu inwardly protested that she was ruining his image.
• After the session, Fang Nuonuo offered parents the expert’s signed book about using guilt to motivate children, and they refused it in disgust.

After winning acclaim for recovering a cultural artifact, Su Mian aimed to join Starry Entertainment’s board, despite Sister Li expecting Film Emperor Su Xun to get the position. Su Xun mistranslated Su Mian’s blunt answers for the hard-of-hearing chairman Chu You, and she was appointed to the board; afterward, she waited for Su Xun to ask why he had helped her.

• Su Mian’s vote count stopped growing after Fang Nuonuo’s hired expert angered the parents, and Su Mian overtook Fang Nuonuo in the school contest.
• The school donated the cultural artifact in Su Mian’s name, and the news spread widely; the guests returned to China.
• Su Mian attended Starry’s anniversary celebration hoping to join its board, while Sister Li predicted that Su Xun would be chosen instead.
• Chairman Chu You interviewed Su Mian with Su Xun present, and Su Xun translated her remarks as praise for dedication and willingness to work hard.
• Starry announced that Su Mian would join the board, and she waited for Su Xun afterward to ask why he had helped her.

Su Mian arranged for Duan Xuanyu to be removed from the show, completing her mission and preparing to return to her original world. Before leaving, she said goodbye to Su Qingyan, who already knew Su Mian would eventually have to go.

• Su Xun declined to explain why he had helped Su Mian, saying she would understand if she remembered him.
• Su Mian persuaded the production team to remove Duan Xuanyu by showing childhood photos that cast doubt on his identity, and the staff approved the change by vote.
• Su Mian saw that her mission progress had reached one hundred percent and decided to leave before the production team found a replacement guest.
• Su Mian told her system she wanted to say goodbye to Su Qingyan and Duan Xuanyu before returning to her original world.
• Su Mian shared fried chicken and watched television with Su Qingyan, then told her she might never return.
• Su Qingyan revealed that Su Mian had told her as a child that she was a task-taker, and the two tearfully exchanged farewells.

Su Mian told Duan Xuanyu she was returning to her real home, and he made her admit that she loved him before she vanished. Left behind, Duan Xuanyu resolved to find a way across the spacetime barrier and follow her again.

• Su Qingyan tested Duan Xuanyu by asking whether he would die if Su Mian left him, and he assured her he would remain rational and live for his people.
• Su Mian packed the jewelry Duan Xuanyu had given her and told him she was going home to her birth parents.
• Duan Xuanyu asked his system whether he could follow Su Mian, but it said it could not cross the parallel-spacetime barrier.
• Su Mian explained her responsibilities and admitted she loved Duan Xuanyu when he pressed her about why she was leaving.
• Su Mian kissed Duan Xuanyu and vanished, and he resolved to find a way to follow her at any cost.

Su Mian reviewed the sealed memories of her 99 redemption missions and learned how she had chosen Su Yang and Lin Nian as her birth parents. She discovered that she had completed Duan Xuanyu’s mission ten times, but still did not understand why.

• Su Mian refused to seal away her memories of Duan Xuanyu and asked the system to show her memories from earlier missions.
• Su Mian learned that her missions had merged into a single storyline and that her kindness-repaying ability came from her habit of repaying anyone who helped her.
• Su Mian read that she had completed 99 missions, including redeeming Duan Xuanyu and helping him become a wise ruler.
• Su Mian learned that she had chosen Su Yang and Lin Nian as her parents after seeing how devotedly they cared for their sick dog.
• Su Mian finished reviewing her memories but wondered why she had completed Duan Xuanyu’s mission ten times and earned full marks each time.

After learning that Duan Xuanyu had repeatedly died after she left him, Su Mian chose to break the cycle and reunite with him rather than seal away her memories. She persuaded her parents to move with her to the merged world, settled them and Xiao Xuanzi and Xiao Guizi there, then set off for Northern Liang to find Duan Xuanyu.

• Su Mian learned that after each past mission, Duan Xuanyu had tried to find her and died tragically, prompting her to return and save him again.
• Su Mian discovered she had enough points to bring people from completed mission worlds to the merged world, and decided to take Duan Xuanyu there instead of letting him die again.
• Su Mian went to her parents, Su Yang and Lin Nian, and asked them to move with her to a distant world where the man she loved lived.
• Su Yang and Lin Nian agreed after Su Mian showed them her valuables and explained that she had a successful career there.
• Su Mian sold the family's assets, brought her parents, Xiao Xuanzi, and Xiao Guizi to the merged world, and then headed to Northern Liang to find Duan Xuanyu.

Su Mian returned to Duan Xuanyu in Northern Liang and proposed staying with him for three years before they faked their deaths and went to her era. They agreed to make the most of their time together, though their plans to build an atomic bomb and conquer the globe proved impractical, and Duan Xuanyu turned his attention to their wedding night.

• Duan Xuanyu rejected the memorials urging him to take consorts and mourned that his system could not help him find Su Mian.
• Su Mian suddenly appeared in Duan Xuanyu's bedchamber, and they embraced and kissed after their reunion.
• Su Mian told Duan Xuanyu he would still die in three years but offered to stay with him until then and take him to her era after they faked their deaths.
• Duan Xuanyu agreed and resolved to use his remaining years to bring peace and prosperity to Northern Liang.
• Su Mian read a downloaded atomic-bomb tutorial and admitted that making one was impractical, so the pair abandoned their hopes of conquering the globe.
• Duan Xuanyu proposed completing their wedding ceremony and consummating their marriage.

Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu completed their wedding ceremony and revealed the secrets they had kept from each other. Their playful disagreement over having a child gave way to a tender wedding night, where Duan Xuanyu asked Su Mian to keep teaching him throughout their lives.

• Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu finished their wedding ceremony and began their wedding night together.
• Duan Xuanyu told Su Mian that he had a Self-Rescue System, which had helped him survive repeated deaths and had created the Dung Beetle Virus illusion.
• Su Mian teased Duan Xuanyu about his stolen kiss and worried that a child might leave her without enough points to bring both of them back.
• Su Mian first insisted they wait three years, then revealed that she had brought contraception and teased Duan Xuanyu about romance novels.
• Duan Xuanyu kissed Su Mian and asked her to teach him slowly for the rest of their lives.

Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu spent three years reforming Northern Liang before returning to the modern world, where they recovered their hidden treasure and learned their rule had brought the people a long-lasting age of prosperity. They left the story ready to resume their modern lives, while a tomb robber’s discovery of a wooden Nailong carving hinted at their elaborate fake tombs.

• Su Mian asked Duan Xuanyu whether he had killed Xu Guizhen, and he explained that he was using Religion B to weaken the more powerful Religion A before curbing Religion B as well.
• Over three years, Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu introduced farming, medical, military, tax, education, and infrastructure reforms, then chose an honest Duan Family descendant to inherit the throne.
• Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu prepared for their return by hiding their wealth in temples and building dozens of fake tombs filled with wooden Nailong carvings and records of lost artifacts.
• On the day Duan Xuanyu was fated to die, Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu chose to perish together while attacking an enemy camp, then returned to the modern world as his self-rescue system uninstalled.
• Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu recovered their hidden treasure and found reports that their rule had ushered in a prosperous era whose benefits lasted for generations.
• Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu read a report about a tomb robber who had been arrested after entering one of their fake tombs and insisting that a wooden Nailong carving was genuine.

Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu reunited with their families and finished the dating show together, while the other guests faced career and personal consequences. After fans sent them off with a citywide message of support, Su Mian thanked everyone who loved her.

• Su Mian brought Duan Xuanyu home, introduced him to her parents, and joked with him about their pets before telling the production team he could remain on the show.
• The guests took a final road trip, and Cheng Qin secured investor approval for her script with Su Mian as its lead; Yu Liqi publicly rejected her family's attempts to claim credit for her success, while Fang Nuonuo quit filming and went home.
• Su Mian supported the motion to remove Lu Zhou as Starry's CEO, and Xu Qingyun was arrested after her former butler revealed her role in the attempted murder of Su Mian.
• Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu were the only pair to join hands on the show's final day, and Duan Xuanyu told fans he would take the civil service exam.
• Fans gave Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu a virtual-fireworks send-off, and Su Mian thanked them for liking her.