Chapter Summaries

After dying as the Qiang Kingdom’s state preceptor, Ji Nanshu was reborn in the body of the Bai family’s adopted son and uncovered the plot that had led to the original Ji Nanshu’s death. As the aphrodisiac took effect, he fled the banquet and collapsed at the elevator, where a mysterious man found him.

• Ji Nanshu awakened in the body of Ji Nanshu and recalled how Bai Nanyu had framed the original owner with a drugged drink and a staged encounter with He Jingyi.
• Ji Nanshu confronted Bai Nanyu, kicked Bai Nanchen when he tried to strike him, and insisted that his surname was Ji.
• Ji Nanshu left the room as the drug began taking effect, wishing Bai Nanyu and He Jingyi a long marriage before calling Lin Kai'an for help.
• Ji Nanshu staggered toward the elevator, was knocked down by a man, and was lifted into his arms as the man said he had finally found him.

Ji Nanshu woke in Chu Mo’s room, flirted with the actor, and agreed to become his sugar baby for a million a month. After Chu Mo left, Ji Nanshu received an abusive call from Liu Yanshuang and decided to return to the Bai Family to retrieve the jade ring before they could use it to rise in status.

• Ji Nanshu woke hungry, recognized the handsome man as Chu Mo, and showered after seeing the original owner’s heavily made-up appearance in the mirror.
• Ji Nanshu seduced Chu Mo, who kissed him before retreating to the bathroom when Ji Nanshu continued teasing him.
• Chu Mo offered Ji Nanshu a million a month to be with him, and Ji Nanshu accepted, calling him his sugar daddy and asking him to get clothes.
• After Chu Mo left, Liu Yanshuang called and berated Ji Nanshu, who talked back and hung up on her.
• Ji Nanshu decided to return to the Bai Family to retrieve the original owner’s jade ring and prevent the family from benefiting from it.

Ji Nanshu returned to the Bai family home to retrieve the jade ring that had belonged to the body's original owner, clashing with Mr. and Mrs. Bai and Bai Nanyu before leaving with it. Outside, he met Chu Mo, climbed into his car, and went home with him.

• Ji Nanshu confronted Mr. Bai and Bai Nanyu at dinner, mocking their accusations and refusing to apologize.
• Ji Nanshu demanded the jade ring he had worn when the Bai family adopted him, and Mrs. Bai brought it downstairs and handed it over.
• Ji Nanshu left the Bai house with the ring, believing the family's happy days were numbered.
• Chu Mo's car stopped for Ji Nanshu, who happily climbed into his arms and went home with him.

Ji Nanshu spent the night at Chu Mo’s home, where Chu Mo agreed to his requests and treated him tenderly, then decided they were dating without telling him. The next morning, Ji Nanshu spoke with his manager Liang You and settled into life with Chu Mo as another visitor arrived.

• Ji Nanshu asked Chu Mo for a soft sofa and pink cushions, and Chu Mo arranged for them to be delivered.
• After Ji Nanshu showered, Chu Mo gave him pajamas and told him to sleep, then secretly smiled when Ji Nanshu fell asleep beside him.
• Yun Sheng brought the new sofa the next morning, and Chu Mo confirmed that he was dating someone and would publicly acknowledge the relationship.
• Ji Nanshu woke to an angry call from Liang You, told her he had moved to the top floor of Qingyan Garden, and hung up.
• Chu Mo carried barefoot Ji Nanshu to breakfast, where the doorbell rang again.

Ji Nanshu signed on for the livestreamed variety show Ideal Life, where Bai Nanchen and Bai Nanyu would also appear, and prepared to leave for filming. After a teasing, intimate day with Chu Mo, Ji Nanshu headed to the airport while Chu Mo promised to visit.

• Liang You scolded Ji Nanshu for moving without telling her, then failed to recognize him after he changed his flamboyant look.
• Liang You told Ji Nanshu he had been signed up for Ideal Life, and he signed the contract despite knowing it had brought the original owner online abuse and that Bai Nanchen and Bai Nanyu would be on it.
• Ji Nanshu kept Liang You from discovering that he was living with Chu Mo, then flirted with Chu Mo while he finished work.
• Chu Mo kissed Ji Nanshu until he protested, and Ji Nanshu kicked him before fleeing.
• Chu Mo packed Ji Nanshu's luggage and drove him to the airport, where they kissed before Ji Nanshu left and Chu Mo promised to visit.

Ji Nanshu impressed the production crew and livestream viewers with his striking looks when they woke him for filming. After politely waking Li Lan, he learned his next wake-up call was for Bai Nanchen and smiled at the coincidence.

• The production crew woke Ji Nanshu at six thirty and were stunned by his appearance when he opened the door.
• Ji Nanshu changed, then learned he had to wake the other guests in room-number order, with no rules about how to do it.
• Ji Nanshu gently woke Li Lan by ringing her doorbell, and she praised his punctuality and politeness.
• The livestream viewers reacted to Ji Nanshu and Li Lan, while some commenters repeated rumors about Ji Nanshu and others defended him.
• Ji Nanshu learned that Bai Nanchen was the next guest he had to wake and smiled at the coincidence.

Ji Nanshu woke the guests for the show, using Bai Nanchen’s stinky sock to rouse him before discovering the last mystery guest was Chu Mo. The cast gathered on the bus, where Bai Nanchen arrived last and gave Ji Nanshu a cold snort.

• Ji Nanshu put on masks, entered Bai Nanchen’s room, and woke him by tossing a foul-smelling sock onto his mouth.
• Ji Nanshu entered the mystery guest’s room and was pulled under the blanket by Chu Mo, who kissed him before they got dressed and joined the others.
• Ji Nanshu and Chu Mo boarded the bus first, followed by Li Lan and Yu Lu.
• Jian Yuanjia enthusiastically greeted Ji Nanshu, prompting Chu Mo to pull him away, while Cen Yan apologized and dragged Jian Yuanjia to a seat.
• Jiang Yue boarded and sat down to rest, then Bai Nanchen arrived last and passed Ji Nanshu with a cold snort.

During the bus ride to the hotel, Ji Nanshu claimed fortune-telling as his special talent and began reading Bai Nanchen, whom he accused of interrupting him. He revealed that Bai Nanchen had been suffering repeated misfortunes since five days earlier, then began to mention a bloody calamity.

• Yu Lu, Li Lan, Jian Yuanjia, Cen Yan, and Jiang Yue introduced themselves and their special talents on the bus.
• Bai Nanchen sang for the guests, then challenged Ji Nanshu to demonstrate his claimed fortune-telling ability.
• Ji Nanshu offered Jiang Yue a free reading, but Bai Nanchen interrupted and challenged Ji Nanshu to read his fortune instead.
• Ji Nanshu described Bai Nanchen's family background and said his life had been going smoothly until a string of misfortunes began five days earlier.
• Ji Nanshu started to reveal that Bai Nanchen faced a bloody calamity.

The guests arrived in Wuzhen for a three-day reality-show challenge, where Ji Nanshu’s fortune-telling and Jian Yuanjia’s loose tongue stirred up trouble. Director Yang set strict rules for the competition, and Ji Nanshu left Jiang Yue with an ominous warning about that night.

• Bai Nanchen angrily confronted Ji Nanshu after Ji cursed him while telling his fortune, but Li Lan calmed them down.
• At the Wuzhen filming location, Ji Nanshu prompted Jian Yuanjia to criticize Director Yang’s shows, and Jian froze when Yang appeared behind him.
• Director Yang announced that the guests had to complete a local-delicacies task with one hundred yuan, split into teams, and surrender their phones.
• As the guests tried to bargain for more money, Ji Nanshu asked Jiang Yue whether he wanted his fortune told and advised him to rest early that night.
• Ji Nanshu leaned against Chu Mo just before Jian Yuanjia exclaimed at something Director Yang had said.

Director Yang told the guests their combined starting funds were only a hundred yuan, and the teams split up to prepare for their tasks. Chu Mo and Ji Nanshu left together, while Bai Nanchen’s attempt to keep all the money was stopped; the chapter ended with viewers praising Ji Nanshu after he laughed at Jian Yuanjia’s teasing.

• Director Yang announced that all the guests had only a hundred yuan in starting funds, and Jian Yuanjia failed to persuade him to give them more.
• Chu Mo took Ji Nanshu to their room, unplugged the camera, and received a teasing bite on the ear from Ji Nanshu.
• Chu Mo chose to team up with Ji Nanshu, while Jian Yuanjia and Cen Yan joined them and Bai Nanchen formed the opposing team with the other guests.
• Ji Nanshu demanded that Bai Nanchen divide the starting funds, and Jian Yuanjia took their share while mocking Bai Nanchen’s feigned forgetfulness.
• Jian Yuanjia sarcastically imitated Bai Nanchen, making Ji Nanshu laugh and prompting viewers to praise Ji Nanshu’s looks.

Ji Nanshu and the others explored Wuzhen while trying to complete their food-gathering task, and Ji Nanshu rescued a girl named Yu Niuniu from a skateboard collision. Yu Niuniu’s mother, Ji Ying, invited the group to lunch, and the chapter ended with Director Yang silently confronting the “delicacies” they brought back.

• Ji Nanshu’s livestream appearance sent his beauty trending, while Ruicheng Media and netizens argued over whether he had changed his appearance.
• With no money and hours remaining before the task deadline, Ji Nanshu, Jian Yuanjia, Chu Mo, and Cen Yan decided to look around Wuzhen before finishing their task.
• After tourists crowded around the group for photos and autographs, Ji Nanshu caught Yu Niuniu and stopped her skateboard from crashing into him.
• Ji Ying arrived to scold her daughter, apologized to Ji Nanshu, and offered to treat the group to lunch; Chu Mo accepted before Jian Yuanjia could protest.
• When the deadline arrived, Director Yang saw the group’s returned delicacies and fell silent.

Ji Nanshu and his companions ate at Guests Come after Ji Ying invited them to apologize for Yu Niuniu’s accident. Bai Nanchen accused them of cheating and demanded a meal, but his companions dragged him away after his outburst.

• Ji Ying ordered local specialties at Guests Come for Ji Nanshu, Chu Mo, Yu Niuniu, and herself.
• Bai Nanchen confronted Ji Nanshu and accused him of cheating, prompting Chu Mo to ask whether Bai was targeting Nanshu.
• Yu Niuniu explained that Ji Ying had invited them to lunch to apologize after she crashed into Ji Nanshu on her skateboard.
• Ji Ying confirmed that the meal was her apology, while Yu Lu tried to smooth over Bai Nanchen’s accusation.
• Bai Nanchen demanded that Ji Nanshu treat the whole group, and Ji Nanshu mocked him before Yu Lu and Jiang Yue covered Bai’s mouth and led him away.
• Yu Niuniu compared their faces and concluded that Bai Nanchen’s face looked bigger than Ji Nanshu’s.

Ji Nanshu warned Ji Ying to leave Wuzhen the next morning, then avoided the show’s tasks and returned to Beside the Flower Stream. After Bai Nanchen knocked out his front teeth and withdrew from filming, Ji Nanshu and Chu Mo sneaked off to sleep together, leaving Director Yang searching for his missing guests.

• Ji Nanshu told Ji Ying to leave Wuzhen the next morning, and she agreed to consider his warning.
• Ji Nanshu persuaded Jian Yuanjia and Cen Yan to skip their tasks because their packed food was enough for dinner.
• Ji Nanshu recognized that Bai Nanchen had knocked out his front teeth and said it was the bloody calamity he had predicted.
• Bai Nanchen was taken to the clinic, and Director Yang announced that he would be replaced by another guest.
• Ji Nanshu and Chu Mo unplugged their camera, kissed, and went to sleep, while Director Yang discovered they had disappeared from filming.

Ji Nanshu and his teammates won the food task by presenting leftovers, despite Director Yang’s objections. Their prize turned out to be raw ingredients, leaving Jian Yuanjia questioning whether it counted as a feast.

• Chu Mo kept the camera crew from seeing Ji Nanshu as they got out of bed and hurried to the task results.
• Bai Nanyu called Ji Nanshu his Third Brother and urged him to return home, but Ji Nanshu rejected him and warned him not to claim kinship.
• Director Yang introduced Bai Nanyu as Bai Nanchen’s younger brother and assigned him to Film Empress Lan’s team.
• Bai Nanyu’s team presented seven plated dishes, while Ji Nanshu’s team presented twelve containers of leftovers and argued that the rules allowed them to eat the food they found.
• Director Yang declared Ji Nanshu’s team the winner, then brought out raw meat and fish as their prize, prompting Jian Yuanjia to protest.

Ji Nanshu joined Chu Mo and the others in the kitchen, where Bai Nanyu tried to win sympathy and stir up questions about Ji’s past. Ji answered Bai’s demand that he apologize to their father by laying out how the Bai family had mistreated him and insisting he had already apologized.

• Ji Nanshu gathered the losing team to help cook, and the contestants followed when they realized they could eat meat instead of porridge.
• Chu Mo rejected Bai Nanyu’s offer to help, but Ji Nanshu insisted Bai could join the kitchen group to avoid accusations of excluding him.
• Bai Nanyu described being abducted as a child and reunited with his biological family, earning sympathy from Jiang Yue and the other guests.
• Yu Lu prompted Bai Nanyu to explain his relationship with Ji Nanshu, and Bai revealed that Ji was adopted by their family and asked whether he would apologize to their father.
• Ji Nanshu recounted the engagement-party drugging and false accusation, then said he had already apologized to Bai Nanyu’s father.

Ji Nanshu and the others played a childhood-themed truth-or-dare game after dinner, despite his warning to rest early. As the night grew unnaturally cold, a ghostly giggle frightened everyone, and Jiang Yue recognized that something had returned.

• Ji Nanshu confronted Bai Nanyu, while Jian Yuanjia called out Bai Nanyu for turning their family dispute into a public spectacle.
• Chu Mo served Ji Nanshu dinner, and the others grew curious about their close, familiar relationship.
• Bai Nanyu proposed a childhood-themed truth-or-dare game, and the group agreed despite Ji Nanshu's warning.
• The night grew unnaturally cold, and Ji Nanshu told Chu Mo to stay close to him.
• A ghostly giggle sounded during the game, everyone screamed, and Jiang Yue said that it was here again.

Ji Nanshu protected Jiang Yue by beating a little ghost into submission and sending it away for reincarnation. Afterward, he told Jiang Yue how to identify the person who had sent the ghost to harm him.

• Jiang Yue asked Ji Nanshu to catch the ghost, and Ji Nanshu agreed for a fee.
• Ji Nanshu slapped the ghost off Jiang Yue and repeatedly knocked it back whenever it charged at him.
• The battered ghost chose reincarnation, so Ji Nanshu placed it inside Jiang Yue's jade pendant and severed its connection to its master.
• Director Yang confirmed the livestream had been turned off, while Bai Nanyu privately considered another way to deal with Ji Nanshu.
• Ji Nanshu told Jiang Yue to look for someone who suddenly became seriously ill to find the ghost's master.

Ji Ying learned that Ji Nanshu’s warning had kept her and Niuniu away from a deadly truck attack, while Chu Mo and Ji Nanshu spent the night growing closer after the supernatural incident. The next morning, Chu Mo made breakfast for two, but Bai Nanchen assumed it was for everyone.

• Yu Ze called Ji Ying after hearing about a deadly truck attack near Cheng County, and Ji Ying told him that Ji Nanshu’s warning had kept her and Niuniu safe.
• After the little ghost was dealt with, Director Yang ended filming for the night and sent everyone to rest.
• Chu Mo and Ji Nanshu kissed, showered together, and Chu Mo later carried Ji Nanshu back to bed and soothed him to sleep.
• Ji Nanshu woke to find Chu Mo making breakfast, and Chu Mo fed him a pancake.
• Bai Nanchen thanked Chu Mo for supposedly making breakfast for everyone, but Chu Mo had only prepared enough for two.

Chu Mo and Ji Nanshu joined the other guests in repairing the garden at Beside the Flower Stream, while Bai Nanyu tried to ingratiate himself with Chu Mo and work against Ji Nanshu. After the guests finished the garden’s basic framework, they went to Wuzhong Market to look for decorations.

• Bai Nanyu hid his resentment toward Ji Nanshu and imagined using the Bai and He families’ power against Chu Mo.
• Director Yang assigned the guests to repair Beside the Flower Stream’s garden, giving them four hundred yuan for materials and promising dinner if the work met the production team’s requirements.
• Chu Mo took charge of sawing timber while Ji Nanshu held his jacket, and he rejected Bai Nanyu’s offer to help.
• Li Lan suggested finishing the basic repairs before shopping, and the guests completed the garden’s framework around noon.
• After lunch, the guests followed the owner’s directions to Wuzhong Market to look for garden decorations.

At the market, Ji Nanshu and Chu Mo were separated from the group, where a thug harassed Ji Nanshu and Chu Mo nearly attacked him. Ji Nanshu had Jian Yuanjia restrain the man and called the police, then identified him as a murderer and directed officers to evidence buried on his property.

• Bai Nanyu pretended the crowded market was new to him, while Jian Yuanjia marveled at the street food until Cen Yan told him to be quiet.
• Chu Mo took Ji Nanshu's hand to guide him through the crowd, then pulled him close when a thug bumped into and insulted him.
• Jian Yuanjia pinned the thug down, and Ji Nanshu told Chu Mo to call the police despite Bai Nanyu's attempt to discourage him.
• Ji Nanshu told Officer Wang that the thug was a murderer and directed the police to dig beneath a tree in the southeast corner of the man's property.
• Cen Yan helped keep the man restrained, and Officer Wang identified him as Liu Haoqiang, ordered Xiao Li to cuff him, and asked Ji Nanshu to assist with the investigation.