Chapter Summaries

Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu helped stop attackers, and the police traced the assault to Xu Qingyun’s family butler. Dai Qing learned that the rescued girl was her daughter, while the investigation revealed how Qiangzi's grandma had abducted her ten years earlier over a gold bracelet.

• Su Mian fought off the thugs while Duan Xuanyu backed her up with prop arrows until the police arrived.
• Su Mian sent Lu Zhou’s message rejecting Xu Qingyun to Xu Qingyun, and a call to one attacker’s phone led police to the Xu Family’s butler.
• Dai Qing received the DNA results confirming the girl was her daughter and told her the truth when she woke in the hospital.
• Fang Nuonuo tried to ingratiate herself with Dai Qing, who sent her home.
• Qiangzi's grandma confessed that she had abducted Dai Qing’s daughter ten years earlier to steal her gold bracelet and kept her hidden out of fear of being caught.

Dai Qing secured punishment for Qiangzi’s grandmother and planned to pursue his parents for child abuse, while Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu exchanged a playful good-night message. The next morning, Duan Xuanyu teased Duan Hongxu, and filming left Duan Hongxu poised to punish Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu after Su Mian claimed the rebel was the emperor’s male consort.

• Dai Qing threatened to pursue compensation from Qiangzi’s family, and Qiangzi’s father kicked his mother before police restrained him.
• Dai Qing told Su Mian the case had gone smoothly, and Su Mian urged her to check her daughter for injuries and sue Qiangzi’s parents for child abuse.
• Su Mian heard Duan Xuanyu watching advice about saying good night, and he sent her a message that she jokingly answered before falling asleep.
• Duan Hongxu asked to borrow Duan Xuanyu’s hair tie, but Duan Xuanyu snapped its cherry against his mouth and dismissed his warnings about changing Northern Liang’s history.
• During filming, Su Mian told Duan Hongxu that Duan Xuanyu was the male consort she had chosen, and Duan Hongxu prepared to use the emperor’s power to teach them a lesson.

While filming a prison rescue scene, Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu were unexpectedly transported to his imperial bedchamber in the past. Su Mian discovered that Duan Xuanyu had a system too, but his karaoke-loving system offered little help explaining what had happened.

• Yu Liqi drove Duan Hongxu away while Duan Xuanyu claimed the throne and promised Su Mian she would remain empress.
• Su Mian entered the prison to rescue Duan Xuanyu, and their familiar scene triggered a strange white light that transported them away from the set.
• Su Mian arrived as an invisible consciousness in Duan Xuanyu's bedchamber, where he searched for her and called out to his system.
• Su Mian's system explained that she could only exist as a consciousness while Duan Xuanyu had been brought along by a system bug.
• Su Mian connected to Duan Xuanyu's system and heard it singing mocking songs instead of answering questions.
• Duan Xuanyu threatened to dig into his brain, prompting his system to agree to explain.

Duan Xuanyu used his three-hour return to the original world to plan which threats to remove from Northern Liang, while Su Mian learned to move his phone with her mind and browsed the thousands of photos he had saved of her. After deciding his second imperial uncle was the only person he could safely kill immediately, Duan Xuanyu was interrupted by someone entering his bedchamber.

• Duan Xuanyu learned he would return to his original world for three hours and decided to use the time to kill people who might threaten Northern Liang.
• Su Mian discussed time-travel theories with the system and worried that changing the past might affect Duan Xuanyu's fate.
• Su Mian used her mind to retrieve Duan Xuanyu's phone and found that its photo album held thousands of pictures of her.
• Duan Xuanyu reviewed a register of officials and postponed killing a corrupt official, a ruthless official, and a future traitor because each still served Northern Liang.
• Duan Xuanyu decided his rebellious second imperial uncle was the only person he could kill immediately and planned to make lightning strike him.
• Someone entered the bedchamber, and Duan Xuanyu sharply ordered them to stop.

After returning to Northern Liang, Duan Xuanyu discovered that only three days had passed there and acted to protect Su Mian’s reputation by executing Prince Sheng for plotting against her. As another crossing approached, Duan Xuanyu gathered gifts for Su Mian, and Xiang Yi asked to accompany him.

• Duan Xuanyu learned from Xiang Yi that only three days had passed in Northern Liang while he and Su Mian had spent twenty-one days in the modern world.
• Duan Xuanyu and Su Mian read memorials that accused her of being a demon or proposed building shrines to her, and Su Mian warned that Prince Sheng’s plan would damage her reputation and aid a rebellion.
• Duan Xuanyu summoned Prince Sheng and ordered him executed, accusing him of plotting rebellion; Prince Sheng cursed Duan Xuanyu as the guards forced him to drink poisoned wine.
• Duan Xuanyu picked up a darksteel rod intended for Su Mian and gathered valuable palace objects to take with him on the next crossing.
• Xiang Yi asked Duan Xuanyu to let him accompany him so he could look after Duan Xuanyu and Su Mian.

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.