Chapter Summaries

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.

Su Mian explained how covert marketing could manipulate public opinion, while Duan Xuanyu comforted her and then tried to turn her harmful-product knowledge into an economic opportunity. Later, Fang Nuonuo checked the online reaction to her carefully staged day and found that things had gone badly for her again.

• Su Mian told Duan Xuanyu about the white-noise-bomb tactics she had used in her former marketing job to shape public opinion around a harmful product.
• Duan Xuanyu reassured Su Mian that she was not solely responsible, then asked what the product was so he could consider selling it in Northern Liang.
• Su Mian dodged his questions by asking for ice cream, and Duan Xuanyu added isatis root granules to it because he feared she would catch a cold.
• Su Mian challenged Duan Xuanyu to find her missing Bluetooth earbud after making him memorize the scent of the one she still had.
• Fang Nuonuo spent the afternoon socializing with wealthy young ladies and noticed the dating show's production team was secretly livestreaming her.
• Fang Nuonuo returned home and checked online, only to see that the reaction she hoped for had not come.

Fang Nuonuo tried to smear Su Mian with rumors, but Duan Hongxu exposed her main and alternate accounts, prompting Su Mian to mock her online. The guests received news of surprise livestreams and upcoming visits, and Su Mian answered Fang Nuonuo’s unexpected video call.

• Fang Nuonuo saw public support for Su Mian grow and posted insinuations that Su Mian had spent the night with Duan Hongxu and Duan Xuanyu.
• Duan Hongxu told Su Mian about the rumors and exposed the matching IP addresses of Fang Nuonuo’s two accounts.
• Su Mian mocked Fang Nuonuo online after the accounts’ posts were revealed.
• Yin Xiaohong announced that the production team had livestreamed some guests’ everyday lives and that the remaining guests would host visits.
• Fang Nuonuo joined the group chat enthusiastically and then video-called Su Mian, who answered.

Su Mian investigated Gu Yichen’s home to learn what he truly wanted and whether he would fall for Fang Nuonuo, but found no clues during the livestreamed tour. In Gu Yichen’s laboratory, a bottle shattered and ether left Duan Xuanyu dizzy, forcing Su Mian to ventilate the room.

• Fang Nuonuo posted an edited apology video, and online commenters criticized her for leaving out Su Mian’s response.
• Su Mian reread the original plot and suspected Gu Yichen fell for Fang Nuonuo because she helped him resist his family, though she wondered what he truly wanted to do.
• Duan Xuanyu grew jealous when Su Mian seemed eager to visit Gu Yichen, then complained that the musical fountain at Gu Yichen’s home was off.
• Su Mian toured Gu Yichen’s laboratory but found nothing suspicious before a glass bottle shattered and released ether.
• Su Mian held her breath and opened the door to air out the laboratory after Duan Xuanyu became dizzy and weak from the ether.

Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu recreated the scene of their first meeting and traveled back to his past, where Su Mian discovered that he had pretended to be drugged and had once planned to kill her. Duan Xuanyu searched the palace memorials for a way to change his fate, leaving Su Mian disturbed by what he found.

• Su Mian remembered that recreating an earlier experience might trigger Duan Xuanyu’s system Easter egg and send them back to ancient times.
• Duan Xuanyu embraced Su Mian and pleaded for help, and she splashed water on him and repeated that she would not touch him because he was young.
• The two traveled back to Duan Xuanyu’s sleeping palace, where Su Mian called her system online and listened in on his conversation with his system.
• Duan Xuanyu revealed that he had already regained his senses during their first meeting and had hugged Su Mian intending to silence her, but she had pushed him away.
• Duan Xuanyu regretted not holding on to Su Mian and considered pretending to be drugged again, while Su Mian silently vowed to make him pay if he tried.
• Duan Xuanyu searched through memorials for a way to change his fate, and Su Mian read one and called it twisted.

Duan Xuanyu punished Prince Sheng’s heir for murdering a peddler’s pregnant wife and father, then used the case to move against the heir’s household. After Duan Xuanyu returned from his brief transmigration, Beijing’s commoners celebrated the execution and the powerful nobles fell silent.

• Yu Fei impeached Prince Sheng’s heir for the brutal murder of a peddler’s family.
• Duan Xuanyu ordered the heir’s six-month-old child steamed alive and made into meatballs, then summoned the heir to the palace.
• The heir admitted he had secretly sent the child away, and Duan Xuanyu ordered him executed for defying the imperial decree.
• Duan Xuanyu told Xiang Yi to deliver further decrees targeting the heir’s household and revealed that the heir had worn a dragon robe.
• Duan Xuanyu returned from his transmigration, while news of the heir’s execution sparked public rejoicing and silenced Beijing’s powerful nobles.

Duan Xuanyu discovered that returning to his era let his system download new cheats, while Su Mian kept her own system’s spying ability secret. After history recorded his reforms but still claimed he later became a brutal ruler and died young, Su Mian sent him the record and reference materials, and he suspected Xu Guizhen had caused the change. As the guests left to visit Cheng Qin’s home, Su Mian overheard Fang Nuonuo and Gu Yichen hinting at Gu Yichen’s secret.

• Duan Xuanyu questioned Su Mian about her remark, then learned from his system that returning to his era replenished its energy and unlocked a new cheat.
• Su Mian decided not to risk having her system tap into Duan Xuanyu’s system after they returned to their physical forms.
• A news report described newly discovered artifacts that vindicated Duan Xuanyu’s actions as Emperor Xiaowu and showed that ordinary people had loved him.
• Su Mian found a historical record claiming Duan Xuanyu later pursued immortality, used human sacrifices, and died from poisoning, so she sent him the record and electronic chemistry and medical references.
• Duan Xuanyu suspected Xu Guizhen had influenced his future actions and resolved to behead the Daoist on his next return.
• As the guests prepared to visit Cheng Qin’s home, Su Mian overheard Fang Nuonuo and Gu Yichen discussing his secret.

Fang Nuonuo and Gu Yichen discussed his secret passion for singing, while the group visited Cheng Qin’s home and then went to Yu Liqi’s modest rental apartment instead of the Yu family estate. Fang Nuonuo’s relatives planned to make trouble for Yu Liqi, and Fang Nuonuo alerted an uncle that the café Yu Liqi chose belonged to him.

• Fang Nuonuo learned that Gu Yichen wanted to sing but felt bound by his family’s expectations, and she encouraged him to show off his talent on the show.
• The guests visited Cheng Qin’s spacious apartment and met her toy poodle, which Su Mian called over along with Duan Xuanyu.
• Fang Nuonuo saw that her relatives planned to shut Yu Liqi out of the Yu family estate and prepared to intervene if the crew was turned away.
• Yu Liqi brought the production crew to her cramped rental apartment instead of the estate and offered to treat everyone to coffee nearby.
• Su Mian suggested checking whether the café accepted Yu Liqi’s group-deal vouchers before they went in.
• Fang Nuonuo messaged her uncle that Yu Liqi was taking everyone to a café he had started.

Yu Liqi and the guests faced an unexpectedly high café bill, and the server looked down on her and Su Mian when they questioned the charges. Yu Liqi paid rather than accept Fang Nuonuo's offer, while Su Mian promised to find someone to deal with the café.

• Yu Liqi learned that the three vouchers still left a bill of fifteen thousand, and Su Mian asked to see the receipt.
• Su Mian found charges for the private room, tableware, and a service fee, while the server condescendingly defended the fees.
• Fang Nuonuo read her uncle's message and offered to pay, hoping to improve her image.
• Yu Liqi refused Fang Nuonuo's offer, paid the bill, and requested an invoice after Su Mian reminded her.
• Su Mian told the server to wait because she would find someone to deal with the café.

Su Mian and Yu Liqi reported the restaurant for undisclosed fees and forced sales, winning triple compensation after the waiter exposed further violations. Yu Liqi later published an investigation of her eldest uncle’s restaurant, forcing it to close for rectification as the dating show’s popularity rose.

• Su Mian and Yu Liqi reported the restaurant for consumer fraud, forced sales, and a menu that lacked Chinese text.
• The waiter’s excuses revealed that the restaurant had not disclosed extra fees and had tied paid tableware to a dessert purchase.
• Yu Liqi learned the restaurant belonged to her eldest uncle, then negotiated forty-five thousand in compensation.
• Yu Liqi wrote a report exposing consumer traps and anonymously brought her eldest uncle’s restaurant under public scrutiny.
• Yu Liqi’s eldest uncle closed the restaurant for rectification, while the show announced upgraded challenges for its next episode.

The guests began a ten-kilometer race to the airport that would decide who became kings and attendants for their trip to the Land of Sand. Su Mian swam across a lake to arrive first, while Duan Xuanyu continued along the road and received a new cheat.

• The production team announced that the guests would travel to the Land of Sand and revealed that their episode challenge would begin on the way to the airport.
• The host divided the guests into kings and attendants based on arrival order and explained that each king could give an attendant a demand to follow until they arrived in the Land of Sand.
• Duan Hongxu offered to help Su Mian win in exchange for a chance to pursue her, but Su Mian rejected him and said kings only gave other kings a chance.
• Su Mian put her shoes and jacket on the bus, secured her phone and identification, and swam across a lake to shorten her route to the airport.
• Su Mian reached the airport first, and Duan Xuanyu received a notification that a new cheat had downloaded successfully.