Chapter Summaries

Fang Nuonuo and Huang Han paired up with Xiaohu, whose pot-smashing antics frustrated them, while Gu Yichen and Cheng Qin met Xiaotu and discovered her talent for rap. The chapter left Duan Xuanyu trying to break the silence with Xiaoli because he needed the child’s help to form a family with Su Mian.

• Fang Nuonuo and Huang Han approached Xiaohu and tried to persuade him to call Huang Han Daddy.
• Xiaohu smashed a flowerpot while performing as a filial son, then demanded a trip to the White House or the Maldives.
• Fang Nuonuo stopped Huang Han from hitting Xiaohu and soothed the crying boy by promising a future trip.
• Gu Yichen called Xiaotu a chubby girl, and Xiaotu responded with a rap mocking his thinness.
• Duan Xuanyu, hoping to form a family with Su Mian, asked the silent Xiaoli why she was so cold.

Duan Xuanyu made Xiaoli laugh despite her efforts to stay aloof, while Su Mian and Lin Xi found Xiaolu and Su Mian won over the little boy by helping him pose as a roguish boss. Xiaolu became devoted to Su Mian, while an education expert criticized her antics in the livestream chat.

• Duan Xuanyu told jokes that made Xiaoli laugh under her blanket, though she tried to preserve her aloof persona.
• Su Mian and Lin Xi searched the yard for Xiaolu, who made a dramatic entrance with a rose and declared himself handsome.
• Lin Xi played along with Xiaolu's tough-guy act, but Xiaolu cried when Lin Xi turned the toy-gun threat back on him; Su Mian stopped his crying by poking his mouth.
• Su Mian styled Xiaolu with a bandage and fake blood, then photographed and praised him as roguishly handsome until he warmed to her.
• Teacher Sun (education expert) flooded the livestream chat with criticism of Su Mian, while viewers questioned the severity of the complaints.
• Su Mian climbed a tree to take more pictures of Xiaolu, who loved the results and silently decided to be her little bro forever.

Su Mian won over Xiaolu by singing with him, then taught him about the values behind the heroes he admired. After an education expert’s bullying methods were exposed and her account was banned, the show began its family cooking task, leaving the guests to seek ingredients around the village.

• Su Mian sang with Xiaolu until he bowed to her, then explained that heroic characters were admired for protecting others and standing up for justice.
• Xiaolu promised to protect weaker children at kindergarten, and Lin Xi hurried after Su Mian and Xiaolu.
• Viewers condemned Teacher Sun’s videos of her coercing children to destroy their favorite collectibles, and her account was permanently banned after users reported her.
• Teacher Sun saw that most people in a trending poll preferred Su Mian to make a home visit and suffered a stroke from rage.
• Yin Xiaohong announced that the four families had to find ingredients without spending money, using the production team’s garden for vegetables and trading with villagers for meat.
• Duan Xuanyu told Xiaoli to do as he said before the guests set out to find ingredients.

Su Mian agreed to take Xiaoli and Duan Xuanyu’s group along, then asked Lin Xi about his food preferences while secretly planning dishes he disliked. After Duan Xuanyu and Su Mian traded barbs with Huang Han, Huang Han mentioned the aged rock tea, and Duan Xuanyu and Xiaoli reacted guiltily before Duan Xuanyu led Su Mian away.

• Xiaoli asked Su Mian to take her and Duan Xuanyu along, and Su Mian agreed despite Lin Xi’s objection.
• Su Mian asked Lin Xi about foods he avoided; after he named cilantro and fruit dishes, she recorded his preferences while his Disgust Points fell to zero.
• Duan Xuanyu urged Su Mian to divorce Lin Xi and form a blended family with him, while Xiaoli encouraged her and Lin Xi angrily objected.
• Huang Han taunted the group, and Duan Xuanyu and Su Mian answered him with insults that left him furious.
• Huang Han boasted that he would drink the aged rock tea; after he left, Duan Xuanyu and Xiaoli exchanged guilty looks, and Duan Xuanyu took Su Mian’s hand and hurried her away.

Duan Xuanyu and Xiaoli’s mix-up with the tea jar embarrassed Huang Han, while his behavior and Su Mian’s unusual cooking drew criticism during the cooking preparations. The chapter ended with Huang Han making a lewd remark to Fang Nuonuo and Su Mian retorting sharply.

• The viewers realized Xiaoli had replaced the tea leaves with dried wood ear strips, and Huang Han’s tea soaked up and burst into his face.
• Xiaohu smashed Huang Han’s cup, but Huang Han stayed quiet to avoid upsetting the child.
• The butcher revealed Huang Han had falsely claimed to represent an official agency to obtain free meat, while Gu Yichen earned a chicken by treating a family’s sick poultry.
• Su Mian cooked several unusual fruit-based dishes, prompting viewers, Huang Han, and Fang Nuonuo to doubt her cooking.
• Huang Han made a suggestive remark to Fang Nuonuo after fetching her an egg, and Gu Yichen and Cheng Qin called him out before Su Mian delivered a cutting retort.

Su Mian drove Huang Han off with sharp insults, then refused her fans’ donations and cooked a meal of unusual fruit-and-meat dishes. Xiaoli, Xiaolu, and Duan Xuanyu loved the food, while Lin Xi rejected it and left to try other households’ meals before hunger brought him back to Su Mian’s doorway.

• Su Mian mocked Huang Han after he insulted her, and he left the exchange visibly angered.
• Su Mian told her fans not to donate because her acting and advertising income already covered her needs.
• Su Mian served her dishes, and Xiaoli, Xiaolu, and Duan Xuanyu praised them and ate eagerly.
• Lin Xi recoiled from Su Mian’s food and left to try Cheng Qin and Gu Yichen’s meal, then Fang Nuonuo and Huang Han’s meal.
• After finding the other households’ food unappetizing, Lin Xi returned to Su Mian’s room and called to her.

Su Mian fed the hungry children, then stopped Xiaohu from smashing a bowl and hitting her. After kicking him and sending Fang Nuonuo outside, she prepared to show the other children a new way to deal with his crying.

• Lin Xi refused to eat Su Mian's cooking, and Su Mian checked that his dislike score had risen to 92.
• Xiaohu rejected Fang Nuonuo's food, smashed a bowl, and hit her, prompting Director Zhang to threaten to take him off the show.
• Cheng Qin and Gu Yichen brought Xiaotu to Su Mian's room, where Xiaotu loved the food and made up a rap song praising Su Mian.
• Xiaohu arrived hungry and tried to smash a bowl of rice, but Duan Xuanyu caught it; Xiaohu then slapped Su Mian and ran.
• Su Mian kicked Xiaohu, shut Fang Nuonuo outside, and told the other children she had a new trick for handling his crying.

Su Mian disciplined Xiaohu by making him finish his meal and do chores, earning his father Director Zhang’s approval and a potential wuxia film role. After the group went shopping and made dessert together, a female guest suffered a sudden medical emergency that left her life in danger.

• Su Mian told Xiaohu he would get no dessert unless he stopped wasting food, then punished him by assigning him dishwashing and other chores; Xiaohu apologized and obeyed.
• Director Zhang arrived, found Xiaohu diligently washing dishes, and praised Su Mian after watching the livestream replay; he asked the show director to report Xiaohu’s misbehavior and offered Su Mian a chance to audition for a wuxia film lead.
• Fang Nuonuo grew jealous when Director Zhang’s film role went to Su Mian and resolved to stop being overshadowed.
• The guests checked the children’s dietary restrictions, went to the supermarket, and returned to make dessert together.
• That night, a female guest suffered a sudden medical emergency, leaving her life in danger.

When Fang Nuonuo became ill with a supposed walnut allergy, Huang Han accused Su Mian of deliberately poisoning her, while Lin Xi questioned Su Mian’s innocence. Su Mian threw walnut powder at all three accusers, and Lin Xi’s furious reaction completed her stage task.

• Fang Nuonuo developed a high fever, rashes, and a swollen throat, and Gu Yichen diagnosed her with a food allergy.
• Huang Han accused Su Mian of putting walnut powder in the food to harm Fang Nuonuo, and Lin Xi joined in urging Su Mian to prove her innocence.
• Huang Han secretly livestreamed the confrontation while trying to pressure Su Mian into confessing.
• Su Mian realized that making Lin Xi believe she was vicious could complete her stage task, so she threw walnut powder over Fang Nuonuo, Huang Han, and Lin Xi.
• Lin Xi shouted that Su Mian was trying to kill Fang Nuonuo, and the system announced that the stage task was complete.

Su Mian exposed Fang Nuonuo and Huang Han’s attempt to frame her, while Lin Xi began to grasp the seriousness of his mistake. At the temple fair, Xiaoli suddenly went missing.

• Su Mian showed that the walnut powder contained no walnuts and played a recording proving Fang Nuonuo had known Cheng Qin bought it and had said she would not eat Su Mian’s desserts.
• Fang Nuonuo discovered Huang Han was livestreaming, then fainted and was taken away in an ambulance; inside, she called her manager to blame Huang Han, while edited videos began circulating online.
• Lin Xi offered Su Mian a cappuccino as an apology, but she insulted the drink and left for the temple fair without him.
• Lin Xi dreamed that a vulnerable version of Su Mian had endured false accusations and later died by suicide, then woke up troubled by what might have happened without her evidence.
• At the temple fair, the guests and crew searched for Xiaoli after she suddenly disappeared.

After Xiaoli went missing at the temple fair, Su Mian found her waiting at the village entrance with an abandoned puppy and learned its owners had died in a car accident. Su Mian arranged for the puppy to live with the Duan Family, while Duan Xuanyu confessed his love indirectly and the crew captured the pair watching fireworks together.

• Su Mian learned that the little white puppy’s owners had died in a car accident and hurried to the village entrance to find Xiaoli.
• Su Mian found Xiaoli with Duan Xuanyu and the puppy, and Xiaoli asked Duan Xuanyu to keep it for her.
• Su Mian said her mother would let the puppy live with the Duan Family, so Xiaoli could visit it there.
• Duan Xuanyu remembered his childhood puppy and how Su Mian had helped him avenge its death, then told her he still loved her despite how much she had hurt him.
• Duan Xuanyu took Su Mian’s hand, and they watched the fireworks with Xiaoli and the puppy as the production crew photographed them.
• The crew posted the pictures, and the parenting show’s followers and popularity surged.

After the guests and children made wishes at the village blessing ceremony, the production team announced that they would perform an improvised adaptation of The Return of the Condor Heroes the next evening. Fang Nuonuo decided to return for filming and insisted on playing Xiaolongnü rather than the less glamorous Qiu Qianchi.

• The children and guests wrote wishes and tossed their prayer slips into the banyan tree, while Duan Xuanyu wished for Su Mian to be safe and sound year after year.
• Huang Han repeatedly failed to get his prayer slip into the tree and eventually threw it away.
• The village chief told Director Zhao that the shows had drawn 1,225 more visitors than the same period last year, and Zhao predicted tourism would grow further.
• Director Zhao and the village chief announced that the guests and children would learn local traditional skills and perform an improvised adaptation of The Return of the Condor Heroes at eight the next evening.
• Fang Nuonuo told the production team she would return for rehearsals, but rejected her manager's suggestion to play Qiu Qianchi and insisted on playing Xiaolongnü.

The guests chose roles and learned local folk arts for an improvised stage performance, while Fang Nuonuo planned to kill Su Mian’s character during the show. Su Mian arrived at the crowded village square to cheering fans, unaware of Fang Nuonuo’s scheme.

• The guests chose their roles for a performance based on The Return of the Condor Heroes, and Duan Xuanyu picked the condor while the children volunteered to play animals.
• Su Mian and Gu Yichen discussed giving the characters an enema to share a single antidote pill, alarming Cheng Qin about her future scripts.
• Fang Nuonuo decided she would stab Su Mian’s character, Yin Zhiping, to death during the improvised performance.
• The guests set off for the village square, where fans crowded around their car and shouted slogans for Su Mian.
• Su Mian posted online about the fans’ retro slogans, and her fans replied with jokes and affectionate messages.

The guests performed a chaotic version of The Return of the Condor Heroes, but Su Mian turned her staged death into a Qinqiang opera about Spider-Man reincarnated as Yin Zhiping. Fang Nuonuo failed to steal the spotlight, and the performance moved to the Tartar grasslands with Lin Xi and Gu Yichen herding lambs.

• A crowd of fans gathered to greet the guests, and Lin Xi tore up an autograph after a fan called him “Diarrhea Bro.”
• Fang Nuonuo performed as Xiaolongnü before Duan Xuanyu appeared as the Divine Condor and delivered his lines by clucking like a chicken.
• Fang Nuonuo stabbed Su Mian as soon as she appeared as Yin Zhiping, but Su Mian sat up and claimed she had been Spider-Man before being reborn.
• Su Mian sang a Qinqiang opera about Spider-Man’s soul entering Yin Zhiping, dodged Fang Nuonuo’s attacks, and pinned her while urging the sects to unite against the Tartars.
• Cheng Qin tied Su Mian’s hair back, and the Ancient Tomb and Quanzhen sects formed an alliance before Lin Xi and Gu Yichen appeared on the grasslands with four lambs.

The guests’ chaotic performance celebrated folk traditions and helped draw attention to the artists and Auspicious Village. After the show, Fang Nuonuo tried to boost her own trending topics and told Cheng Qin that Su Mian overshadowed everyone.

• The little lambs escaped the Tartars by changing into lion costumes and performing a clumsy but endearing lion dance.
• The guests acted out the defense of Xiangyang, and Brother Condor performed molten-iron fireworks before setting his head feathers alight.
• Cheng Qin and the guests ended the show with a lively yangge dance, prompting applause and renewed interest in folk culture.
• The performance and its folk traditions surged across trending topics, and many audience members stayed to watch the real artists perform.
• Fang Nuonuo paid to promote her classical dance after her agent said President Lu would not fund more publicity.
• Fang Nuonuo greeted Cheng Qin and complained that Su Mian made the other guests look like mere backdrops.

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.