Chapter Summaries

At the charity auction, Fu Chi identified himself as the buyer of Xia Zhiyi’s first carved stool by bidding 100,000 yuan, and Xia Zhiyi recognized him. Fu Yunyi learned that Xia Zhiyi and Fu Chi had met before, then watched Xia Zhiyi’s craftsmanship leave him questioning his own abilities.

• Fu Yunyi kept glancing toward Fu Chi while Xia Zhiyi’s carving skills drew attention at the venue and online.
• Fu Chi bid 100,000 yuan for Xia Zhiyi’s first stool and left a message saying, “He’s worth it.”
• Xia Zhiyi recognized Fu Chi as the bidder, and the two exchanged a look that Fu Yunyi noticed.
• Fu Yunyi quietly asked Xia Zhiyi whether he knew Fu Chi, and Xia Zhiyi confirmed they had met before but had not been in contact.
• Xia Zhiyi’s second stool revealed another intricate carving, and he explained that steady hands from martial arts helped him carve without mistakes.
• Fu Yunyi was humbled by Xia Zhiyi’s skill, while Fu Chi approved of the lesson and Xia Zhiyi considered finding a local master carver.

Fu Chi repeatedly outbid others for Xia Zhiyi’s handcrafted stools, driving their prices far beyond what Xia Zhiyi felt they were worth. As Xia Zhiyi prepared to speak with Fu Chi, another buyer challenged him, and Fu Chi declared that the highest bidder would win.

• When bidding opened on Xia Zhiyi’s second piece, Fu Chi bid a hundred thousand yuan, and Xia Zhiyi wondered why he had approached him earlier.
• Xia Zhiyi told Fu Yunyi he worried the high prices meant buyers were paying too much, while Fu Yunyi reassured him and joked that it was robbing the rich to help the poor.
• Xia Zhiyi’s second chair sold for two hundred and thirty thousand yuan, with Fu Chi winning after another bidder challenged him.
• Xia Zhiyi’s third stool sold for five hundred and sixty thousand yuan, again to Fu Chi, and Xia Zhiyi decided he needed to talk to him.
• Don't Envy Bro complained that Fu Chi had bought three stools and asked him to leave some for others, but Fu Chi replied that the highest bidder wins.

Xia Zhiyi watched two buyers drive the price of his ordinary wooden stool to two million yuan, increasingly troubled by the attention. Away from the auction, Fu Chi suspected Huanyu executive Zhao Changye was competing to get close to Xia Zhiyi and arranged protection for Xia Wanyi.

• Xia Zhiyi decided not to ask Fu Chi to stop bidding because doing so might make him look intimidated.
• Xu Chen told Fu Chi that the bidding war had made the trending list, and Fu Chi identified Zhao Changye as the likely rival.
• Fu Chi warned Xu Chen to watch over Xia Wanyi and said he had already arranged bodyguards to protect her.
• Fu Chi tried to bid 100,000 yuan, but another buyer's higher bid came first.
• Buyer C and the other bidder raised the stool's price in turns until it reached two million yuan, leaving Xia Zhiyi and the others stunned.

Xia Zhiyi and Fu Yunyi left the auction venue as the bidding for Xia Zhiyi’s stools continued, discussing the charity event and their plans after filming. They unexpectedly ran into Fu Yunyi’s uncle, who had arrived before they expected.

• The bidding for Xia Zhiyi’s fourth stool ended at two and a half million, and Jian Zhu introduced Xia Zhiyi’s final stool.
• Fu Yunyi took Xia Zhiyi to the restroom to avoid watching the auction, while Qin Yue wondered whether she could leave to prepare lunch.
• Xia Zhiyi said increased attention could discourage people from misusing the charity funds, and Fu Yunyi assured him that Hangu Group’s oversight was strict.
• Fu Yunyi and Xia Zhiyi discussed lunch and whether Director Gong would assign them another task.
• Fu Yunyi spotted his uncle and asked what he was doing there, surprising Xia Zhiyi as well.

Fu Chi told Xia Zhiyi to contact him later and revealed that Xia would soon join Tianhuan, asking Fu Yunyi to look after him as a junior on the show. Fu Yunyi was baffled by Fu Chi's unusual attention to Xia and left muttering that age was the only thing ruling something out.

• Fu Chi told Xia Zhiyi that Xu Chen would discuss the next steps with him and that he could contact Fu Chi after getting his phone back from Director Gong.
• Fu Yunyi questioned Xia Zhiyi about how close he seemed to Fu Chi, while Xia insisted they had only met a few times and described Fu Chi as polite.
• Fu Chi told Fu Yunyi that Xia Zhiyi would become his junior and asked him to look after Xia on the show.
• After Fu Chi left, Fu Yunyi muttered, "If the ages didn't rule it out..."

Xia Zhiyi worried about the auction’s final item and learned that Fu Yunyi was still confused about his relationship with Fu Chi. The auction ended successfully after the last stool sold for an unexpectedly high price, and the guests looked forward to finally eating.

• Fu Yunyi questioned Xia Zhiyi about his connection to Fu Chi, then learned Xia Zhiyi had signed with Tianhuan.
• Xia Zhiyi checked the livestream and asked staff about how soon the auction proceeds could reach the children receiving aid.
• Fu Yunyi and Xia Zhiyi returned to the venue as bidding on the final stool ended at an astronomical price.
• Jian Zhu hurried the closing proceedings, and Xia Zhiyi joined the guests onstage to thank the auction participants.
• The auction officially ended, and Wang Chengran celebrated while Xue Ranran complained that she was hungry.

With the guests struggling to prepare dinner, Xia Zhiyi took over chopping and astonished everyone with his precise knife skills. The meal preparations continued as Xue Ranran and Fu Yunyi mistook his ordinary training for evidence of extraordinary martial arts.

• With time running short, Xia Zhiyi offered to cook alongside Qin Yue and took charge of the large wok.
• Xia Zhiyi sliced carrots with astonishing speed and precision, leaving Wang Chengran and Xue Ranran amazed.
• Xia Zhiyi prepared Qin Yue’s ingredients, then set water to boil while Wang Chengran tended the fire.
• Xue Ranran told Fu Yunyi about Xia Zhiyi’s knife skills, and Fu Yunyi said they were basic for a chef.
• Xue Ranran and Fu Yunyi concluded that Xia Zhiyi’s martial arts must be unfathomable, while Xia Zhiyi wondered if he should claim he had once wanted to be a chef.

Xia Zhiyi and the guests prepared and enjoyed lunch with Jian Zhu joining the cooking, then Xia met Xu Chen privately to discuss his contract. After reading the Tier A contract almost instantly, Xia said he had no objections and asked whether he should sign.

• Jian Zhu arrived in the kitchen, offered to help, and became a sous-chef alongside Wang Chengran and Xue Ranran.
• Xia Zhiyi and the guests finished preparing lunch and ate together before Jian Zhu suggested a midday break.
• Xia Zhiyi washed the dishes and slipped away from the cameras to meet Xu Chen.
• Xu Chen told Xia Zhiyi that Fu Yunyi had personally invested in the production and presented him with a Tier A contract.
• Xia Zhiyi rapidly read the contract, said he had no objections, and asked whether he should sign it.

Xia Zhiyi signed a contract with Xu Chen and learned what had happened to Zhou Kai after the show. As filming continued, new visitors arrived at the cottage, and Xia Zhiyi intervened when one provoked the guests.

• Xu Chen confirmed Xia Zhiyi had a photographic memory, and he signed the contract with her.
• Xu Chen told Xia Zhiyi that Zhou Kai had been burned with boiling water by an elderly man whose grandson Zhou Kai had bullied, and that the old man had collapsed afterward.
• Xia Zhiyi returned to filming, where he impressed others with a series of unusual feats, while Jian Zhu spent a night visiting the cottage.
• New visitors began arriving daily, including one who clung to Fu Yunyi and another who tried to provoke the guests.
• When Xue Ranran was about to confront the provocative female visitor, Xia Zhiyi pinned a mosquito beside her to the wall with a chopstick, and Xue Ranran thanked him.

After a disruptive visitor unsettled the guests, Director Gong let them invite friends for the final three days of filming. The guests discussed whom to bring, while Xia Zhiyi said he needed to ask his family and Fu Yunyi was left wondering who he could invite.

• Xia Zhiyi's icy stare stopped the female guest from causing a scene, and Director Gong decided the guests could invite friends instead of receiving more unfamiliar visitors.
• Xue Ranran said she would invite a close female friend from the entertainment industry.
• Qin Yue planned to invite her younger brother so he could experience her hard work firsthand.
• Wang Chengran said he might invite his younger cousin to spend time together.
• Xia Zhiyi joked that the guests were his friends, then said he would ask his family before naming anyone he might invite.
• The guests turned to Fu Yunyi, who wondered whom he could bring since everyone else was inviting family.

The guests discussed who they would invite to the show, and Fu Yunyi and Xia Zhiyi explained why choosing friends might be difficult. Xue Ranran and Wang Chengran planned farm activities for the visitors, including pig riding, which Xia Zhiyi had previously helped them try.

• Fu Yunyi said he would ask his friends who was available, while Xia Zhiyi warned that he had few friends willing to appear on camera.
• Xue Ranran teased Fu Yunyi about having few female friends, and Fu Yunyi said he had rejected people who pursued him because he was not interested in dating.
• Xue Ranran and Wang Chengran listed farm activities for their guests, including picking and shelling corn, herding cattle, riding pigs, and chopping firewood.
• Xia Zhiyi recalled how Wang Chengran had ended up on a runaway pig, then asked Xia Zhiyi for help.
• After Xia Zhiyi controlled the pig, Wang Chengran rode it again and persuaded Xue Ranran to join him.

Xia Zhiyi called Xu Chen to discuss the guest invitation and then contacted his sister, Xia Wanyi, to ask whether she wanted to join the livestream. After learning Xia Zhiyi might invite only his sister, Fu Chi asked Xu Chen for his work phone number.

• Xia Zhiyi collected Xu Chen’s work phone from Director Gong and called Xu Chen after finding a private room.
• Xu Chen told Xia Zhiyi that Fu Yunyi had asked her to find a guest, and Xia Zhiyi said he would ask Xia Wanyi before inviting anyone else.
• Xu Chen offered to arrange safe transport for Xia Wanyi and said Tianhuan had a team monitoring the livestream.
• Xia Zhiyi ended the call and phoned Xia Wanyi, greeting her warmly.
• Xu Chen checked with Fu Chi’s assistant about arrangements, and Fu Chi called to ask what Xia Zhiyi planned to do.
• Xu Chen gave Fu Chi Xia Zhiyi’s work number and wondered why Fu Chi seemed to value him so much.

Xia Zhiyi spoke with Xia Wanyi, who decided not to join the show, then accepted Fu Chi’s offer to be his guest. He told Director Gong about Fu Chi but admitted he had forgotten to mention the three-day filming schedule, leaving Director Gong to confirm whether Fu Chi could attend.

• Xia Zhiyi reassured Xia Wanyi that she did not need to visit the show, and she agreed to wait for him at home.
• Fu Chi called Xia Zhiyi and offered to come as his guest; Xia Zhiyi accepted and said the production team would follow up.
• Xia Zhiyi told Director Gong that Fu Chi was his proposed guest, and Director Gong was surprised by the choice.
• Director Gong asked whether Xia Zhiyi had told Fu Chi the filming lasted three days and two nights, and Xia Zhiyi admitted he had forgotten.

On a rainy morning, Xia Zhiyi and Wang Chengran went to the bamboo grove to cut bamboo for the bamboo tube rice Xue Ranran had wanted to try. Xia Zhiyi took charge of preparing lunch for the visitors, who were due to arrive that day.

• Xia Zhiyi told Wang Chengran they would skip their morning run and cut bamboo for bamboo tube rice instead.
• Director Gong changed the visitors’ route to the main road because the mountain paths were slippery in the rain.
• Xia Zhiyi and Wang Chengran returned with bamboo tubes, and Xue Ranran was delighted that they would make bamboo tube rice.
• Qin Yue worried she did not know how to cook the dish, so Xia Zhiyi offered to prepare lunch.

Fu Yunyi went to meet the arriving guest in the rain, only to discover that the man in the car was his youngest uncle, Fu Chi. At the cottage, Xia Zhiyi introduced Fu Chi to the other guests as the person he had invited, and Fu Chi corrected him by calling himself Xia Zhiyi’s friend.

• Fu Yunyi walked downhill in a straw rain cape to meet the incoming guest and waved a red dipper at a black sedan.
• Fu Chi lowered the car window, leaving Fu Yunyi embarrassed, then told the driver to wait until they were out of sight before laughing.
• A staff member told Xia Zhiyi that his invited guest was nearly at the cottage, so Xia Zhiyi and Wang Chengran went to meet him.
• Xue Ranran and Qin Yue joined Xia Zhiyi and Wang Chengran as Fu Chi arrived.
• Xia Zhiyi introduced Fu Chi as his invited guest and tentatively called him his boss, but Fu Chi said he was Xia Zhiyi’s friend.

Xia Zhiyi reassured Wang Chengran that Fu Chi was his future boss and agreed to introduce Wang to his sister. As viewers tried to uncover Xia Zhiyi’s personal information, Director Gong thought of asking Fu Chi for help.

• Wang Chengran asked Xia Zhiyi about his connection to Fu Chi, and Xia explained he would work at a company under Fu Chi’s name.
• Wang Chengran said he wanted to meet Xia Zhiyi’s sister, and Xia agreed to introduce them and let Wang visit with him after filming.
• Fu Chi joined Xia Zhiyi and Wang Chengran, then helped prepare vegetables after Xia assigned him the task.
• Wang Chengran asked why Xia Zhiyi was so unafraid of Fu Chi and teachers, and Xia said he had never been afraid of teachers or been punished by them.
• Director Gong noticed viewers trying to dig up Xia Zhiyi’s personal information and, seeing Fu Chi on another camera feed, thought of a possible solution.

Fu Chi told Director Gong to contact Xu Chen about people trying to uncover Xia Zhiyi’s information, then joined Xia Zhiyi in welcoming the arriving guests. Wang Kaiqi revealed that Wang Chengran’s younger cousin had been hit by a child’s tricycle and could not attend.

• Director Gong told Fu Chi that commenters were stirring up trouble and trying to dig up Xia Zhiyi’s information, and Fu Chi directed him to Xu Chen.
• Fu Chi returned to the cottage and warned Xia Zhiyi and Wang Chengran that guests were arriving.
• Xia Zhiyi went out to help Fu Yunyi and the two women with their luggage, while Fu Chi hurried after him with an umbrella.
• Fu Yunyi realized that Fu Chi was the guest Xia Zhiyi had invited and watched him work alongside the others in disbelief.
• Xia Zhiyi introduced the new guests, Xu Zixu and Wang Kaiqi, and Wang Kaiqi explained that Wang Chengran’s younger cousin had been hit by a child’s tricycle.

Wang Kaiqi explained that her cousin had twisted his ankle and sent her in his place, and the guests gathered to prepare lunch after Fu Yunyi returned with Gu Zhiyuan and the final guest. Fu Chi approached Xia Zhiyi, whose presence remained uniquely vivid in Fu Chi’s otherwise colorless vision.

• Wang Kaiqi told Xia Zhiyi that her cousin had twisted his ankle and asked her to take his place on the show.
• Wang Chengran joked that he had planned to make the injured cousin help with work, easing the group’s tense mood.
• Fu Yunyi volunteered to pick up the remaining guests, then returned with his childhood friend Gu Zhiyuan and the final guest.
• Xia Zhiyi and Gu Zhiyuan carried a table outside and chatted about Fu Chi, whom Gu Zhiyuan admired.
• Fu Chi approached Xia Zhiyi with a kitchen knife, and his gaze lingered on Xia Zhiyi, the only person he could see in color.

As Xia Zhiyi prepared a bamboo tube feast, he sent Fu Yunyi and Gu Zhiyuan to check on Seventh Uncle and bring him firewood because of the rain. Their errand ended with both Seventh Uncle and Gu Zhiyuan falling, and Fu Yunyi urgently called Xia Zhiyi for help.

• Fu Chi brought the soaked cured pork to Xia Zhiyi, while Gu Zhiyuan admitted he felt nervous around Fu Chi because he regarded him as an elder and idol.
• Xia Zhiyi recalled Seventh Uncle’s generosity and worried that the old man might be short on firewood after planning to gather some in the mountains despite the rain.
• Since he was busy cooking, Xia Zhiyi asked Fu Yunyi to have someone check on Seventh Uncle and take him firewood, and Fu Yunyi volunteered.
• Gu Zhiyuan joined Fu Yunyi, who got Fu Chi’s permission before leaving with the firewood.
• Fu Yunyi shouted for Xia Zhiyi to help because Seventh Uncle had fallen, then called out that Gu Zhiyuan had fallen too.

Fu Yunyi called Xia Zhiyi for help after Seventh Uncle fell, but Gu Zhiyuan also slipped while Fu Yunyi hesitated to move the old man. Xia Zhiyi treated Seventh Uncle and arranged for him to go to the hospital, then reminded Fu Yunyi to look after Gu Zhiyuan, who waited under the eaves with ginger tea and a reproachful look.

• Fu Yunyi called for Xia Zhiyi after Seventh Uncle fell, while Gu Zhiyuan questioned why they were not summoning medical staff.
• Gu Zhiyuan slipped and fell as Fu Yunyi searched for help, and Fu Yunyi warned everyone not to move either injured man.
• Xia Zhiyi descended to Seventh Uncle, identified a dislocation, put it back in place, and eased his pain.
• The medical staff treated Seventh Uncle, and the production crew arranged for his family to take him to a hospital in town despite his protests.
• Xia Zhiyi told Fu Yunyi to help Gu Zhiyuan change and clean up, and Fu Yunyi found his childhood friend waiting with ginger tea.