Chapter Summaries

After being assigned to protect the male protagonist Lu Xunji, Xie Ji mistook him for a woman and tried to charm him, only to embarrass himself badly. Lu Xunji’s favorability toward Xie Ji fell to -110, leaving Xie Ji mortified.

• Xie Ji learned that his mission was to protect Lu Xunji from four scumbags, despite Lu Xunji’s favorability toward him being -100.
• Xie Ji refused to read the plot and went to Lu Xunji’s room, convinced he was a beautiful woman.
• Xie Ji discovered that Lu Xunji was a muscular young man and asked to borrow toilet paper instead of pursuing him.
• Little Black showed Xie Ji a custom model of Lu Xunji’s measurements just as Lu Xunji reopened the door with scented toilet paper.
• Lu Xunji saw the model in Xie Ji’s hand and questioned whether he did that sort of thing in private, while his favorability toward Xie Ji dropped to -110.

Xie Ji tried to improve Lu Xunji’s favorability with a bottle of Rosemary and a plan to dress like a delicate girl, then joined him on the production team’s rural variety show. On the way there, he pressed close to Lu Xunji to feel for the black card, but found his shorts pocket empty.

• Xie Ji learned that Lu Xunji’s storyline involved a psychological condition and demanded compensation from Little Black, who gave him a bottle of Rosemary on credit.
• Xie Ji recalled that he and Lu Xunji had been invited to a two-month rural variety show, where the original owner had opposed Lu Xunji and been attacked by his admirers.
• Believing Lu Xunji must prefer women, Xie Ji ordered women’s clothing and sent it to the show’s remote location.
• Xie Ji and Lu Xunji left the Xie family villa together, and Father Xie gave Lu Xunji a black card.
• Xie Ji edged close to Lu Xunji in the hot car and reached into his shorts pocket, only to discover it was empty.

Xie Ji and Lu Xunji arrived at the dock for a two-month island show, where their bickering pushed Lu Xunji’s favorability close to a dangerous threshold. Xie Ji then brought out an embarrassing gift for Lu Xunji, leaving him even more displeased.

• Lu Xunji teased Xie Ji with a black card, then unexpectedly bit his ear, and their argument dropped his favorability to -160.
• After learning that a favorability score of -200 would trigger an unknown punishment, Xie Ji stopped provoking Lu Xunji.
• The driver brought Lu Xunji and Xie Ji to the dock, where Director He explained the island show’s rules and allowed the first guests to bring one personal item each.
• Xie Ji collected a human-shaped package he had mailed as a present for Lu Xunji.
• The package contained a rubber doll, and Lu Xunji’s favorability toward Xie Ji fell to -195.

Xie Ji waited with Lu Xunji for the other guests and mistakenly believed Lu Xunji’s increased favorability meant he liked his rubber wife. When a wealthy young man arrived, Xie Ji fawned over his watch, leaving Lu Xunji irritated and his favorability dropping further.

• Xie Ji imagined finding Lu Xunji a woman and dismissed Little Black’s suggestion of another solution.
• Lu Xunji felt an unusually strong desire while looking at Xie Ji, then turned away.
• Xie Ji saw Lu Xunji’s favorability rise by five points and concluded he was secretly interested in the rubber wife.
• A young man arrived in a red Maserati, and Xie Ji grabbed his wrist to admire his expensive watch and ask him to give it away.
• Lu Xunji grew jealous as Xie Ji called the young man “dear big brother,” and his favorability fell to -193.

Xie Ji joined Lu Xunji and four wealthy young men on a livestreamed island farming show, determined to keep the others away from Lu Xunji. The pair set off in a sluggish motorboat after Xie Ji confidently promised they would win the race to the island.

• Xie Ji stopped provoking Ji Shi when his favorability with Lu Xunji fell to -194, then gave Ji Shi water to keep him from approaching Lu Xunji.
• Director He introduced The Young Master's Field, where six guests would build a farmstay on an isolated island using production funds.
• Xie Ji identified Shang Yan, Mu Yao, and Zhou Heyu as three of the four scum gongs and resolved to protect Lu Xunji from them.
• Director He told the guests to surrender their devices and race to the island in pairs; Xie Ji brought his rubber wife as their permitted extra item.
• Lu Xunji rejected the other men's attempts to pair with him, and he teamed up with Xie Ji while Mu Yao paired with Shang Yan and Ji Shi with Zhou Heyu.
• Xie Ji promised Lu Xunji they would win, but their boat barely moved, and Lu Xunji corrected Xie Ji's muddled reference to the tortoise and the hare.

Xie Ji used the rare item Rosemary on Mu Yao, causing him to lose control and attack Shang Yan on their airship. As Xie Ji and Lu Xunji continued toward the island, Xie Ji told Lu Xunji he could control shit.

• Xie Ji figured out how to speed up the airship while Lu Xunji noticed a little black snake hiding in his pocket.
• Xie Ji used Rosemary on Mu Yao, naming Shang Yan as the user and Mu Yao as the target.
• Mu Yao became overwhelmed by Shang Yan's scent, grabbed him, and lunged at him inside their stopped airship.
• Shang Yan kicked Mu Yao into the sea, and the production team sent professionals to rescue them as viewers reacted online.
• Xie Ji passed Ji Shi and Zhou Heyu's airship and told Lu Xunji that he was a magician who could control shit.

Xie Ji tricked Ji Shi into giving up his valuable watch by exploiting his stomach trouble, while Lu Xunji realized Xie Ji had tampered with Ji Shi’s water. Lu Xunji destroyed the evidence instead of exposing Xie Ji, warned him not to try it again, and went ashore.

• Xie Ji predicted that Ji Shi would stop his speedboat with diarrhea and offered him a bucket as a toilet in exchange for his watch.
• Xie Ji whistled to worsen Ji Shi’s discomfort until Ji Shi threw him the watch, and Xie Ji sped away with it.
• Lu Xunji asked how Xie Ji knew what would happen and accused him of tampering with Ji Shi’s water.
• Lu Xunji revealed he had the water bottle and used it to make Xie Ji admit his scheme, while Xie Ji denied knowing what he meant.
• Lu Xunji poured the water into the sea, crushed the bottle, warned Xie Ji there would not be a next time, and stepped ashore.

Xie Ji and Lu Xunji explored the unfinished island villa, where the guests had to earn money for supplies and endure missing necessities. After Xie Ji helped Ji Shi trade his diamond studs for toilet paper, Lu Xunji confronted him about admiring Ji Shi, and their teasing ended on a suggestive note.

• Xie Ji and Lu Xunji followed the map to their spacious but unfinished villa and found the farm areas barren and the house without furniture or daily necessities.
• Zhou Heyu and Ji Shi arrived, and Director He announced that the guests had 500,000 in starting funds and could buy supplies from a shop that opened each evening.
• Desperate for a toilet, Ji Shi followed Xie Ji to a camera blind spot, where Xie Ji traded toilet paper for Ji Shi's diamond stud earrings.
• Mu Yao and Shang Yan arrived, and Mu Yao had to wash in cold water because the villa had no hot water.
• Xie Ji proudly told Little Black that Ji Shi and Mu Yao had lost interest in Lu Xunji, while Lu Xunji caught Xie Ji admiring Ji Shi and teased him about needing contraception.

Xie Ji and Lu Xunji competed over the renovated bedroom before the guests divided their farm duties. Short on startup funds for livestock, Xie Ji paid to try milking a cow, leaving Little Black wondering what he planned.

• Lu Xunji taunted Xie Ji, then tricked him into chasing the black card so he could claim the renovated bedroom.
• The guests divided their farm duties, with Xie Ji assigned to the livestock sheds and Lu Xunji assigned to the villa renovations.
• Xie Ji learned that cleaning the livestock sheds earned startup funds, but buying a calf required far more money.
• Xie Ji inspected a nearby cowshed, declined its fifty-yuan experience fee, then returned and paid it after cleaning his own sheds.
• Xie Ji told Little Black he would understand why he had paid for the experience.

Xie Ji took a breeding bull from the cowshed, then used Little Black to make it seem like a talking fortune-telling cow. The startled production crew and NPCs gathered around as Xie Ji offered a free fortune, and Blue Headscarf asked where his lost five yuan had gone.

• Xie Ji insisted on taking a young bull from the cowshed and argued that the owner had failed to provide the milking experience he paid for.
• Director He told the cowshed owner to make trouble for Xie Ji if he did not return the bull by nightfall.
• Xie Ji took the bull to the roadside and set up a fortune-telling stall, asking Little Black to speak from the cow's back.
• Little Black called Blue Headscarf sick in the head, frightening the NPCs and confusing the production crew.
• Xie Ji agreed to tell Blue Headscarf's one free fortune, and Blue Headscarf asked where his lost five yuan had gone.

Xie Ji used Little Black to impress a man with the cow’s fortune-telling and took his money before returning to camp. There, Xie Ji bargained with Lu Xunji over the black card’s PIN while they held hands, until Ji Shi caught them and demanded warmth too.

• Xie Ji used Little Black to reveal five yuan in the blue-headscarf man’s pocket, then took 863 yuan and twenty cents and advised him to buy the cow, a heifer, and a calf.
• Xie Ji returned the cows, took a carton of milk, and went back to the courtyard, where Mu Yao and the others were resting and Shang Yan was writing.
• Lu Xunji asked Xie Ji for starting money and dangled the black card’s PIN; Xie Ji bargained for fifty yuan and agreed to the deal.
• Lu Xunji held Xie Ji’s hand as they negotiated, and Xie Ji told Ji Shi they were only warming their hands as good bros.
• Ji Shi blushed, grabbed Xie Ji’s other hand, and demanded that Xie Ji warm it too.

Xie Ji struggled to understand Lu Xunji's erratic favorability while Ji Shi pulled him aside for a private conversation. At the shop, Lu Xunji made Xie Ji spend fifty yuan on condoms and convinced the other guests they were for Xie Ji.

• Lu Xunji and Ji Shi each held Xie Ji's hand, then Ji Shi pulled Xie Ji aside to talk while Lu Xunji's favorability toward Xie Ji fell to -200.
• Ji Shi warned Xie Ji not to tell anyone about his private bathroom habits, and Xie Ji promised to keep quiet.
• The guests opened the shop at nine and exchanged their starting capital for food and necessities.
• Lu Xunji spent twenty yuan on bread and yogurt, then added two boxes of condoms to bring Xie Ji's bill to exactly fifty yuan.
• Lu Xunji handed the condoms to Xie Ji and told the guests they were for Xie Ji, leaving Xie Ji embarrassed as the others judged him.

Xie Ji slipped into Lu Xunji’s room hoping to sleep in his cool, spacious bed, while Ji Shi waited outside. As Xie Ji settled in, he heard Lu Xunji mutter his name from the shower, leaving their relationship poised for an awkward encounter.

• After dinner, Ji Shi went to Xie Ji’s room and asked to sleep with him because he could not bear the hard floor.
• Xie Ji decided to impose on Lu Xunji’s bed and persuaded Ji Shi to come along, but Ji Shi made Xie Ji go in first.
• Xie Ji entered Lu Xunji’s unlocked room and found him showering.
• Xie Ji climbed onto Lu Xunji’s bed and heard him curse and murmur Xie Ji’s name behind the bathroom’s frosted glass.

Xie Ji sneaked into Lu Xunji’s bed and tried to excuse himself by blaming a geomagnetic storm, while Lu Xunji struggled to control his desire. After briefly gagging Xie Ji and then giving him water, Lu Xunji agreed to let him stay.

• Xie Ji hid under Lu Xunji’s covers when Lu Xunji came out of the bathroom.
• Lu Xunji pulled back the covers and demanded an explanation for finding Xie Ji in his bed.
• Xie Ji blamed a geomagnetic storm and poor sleep for ending up in Lu Xunji’s room.
• Lu Xunji dragged Xie Ji down onto the bed, gagged him with his bathrobe belt, and then leaned against him without going further.
• Lu Xunji removed the belt and brought Xie Ji water when Xie Ji asked for a drink.
• Lu Xunji agreed to let Xie Ji share the bed, and Xie Ji called him pretty nice.

Lu Xunji threw away his rubber doll, then kicked Ji Shi out of his bedroom while letting Xie Ji sleep beside him. At two in the morning, Xie Ji was pulled into Lu Xunji’s dream as punishment and found himself chained in a misty cave with something large coiling around him.

• Lu Xunji took his rubber doll out with the trash while Xie Ji invited Ji Shi into Lu Xunji’s bedroom to share the bed.
• Lu Xunji returned, ordered Ji Shi out, and gave his own pillow to sleeping Xie Ji while throwing Ji Shi’s pillow into the hall.
• At two in the morning, a system notification revealed that Lu Xunji’s favorability had reached -200 and sent Xie Ji into the target’s dream.
• Xie Ji woke in an icy cave, chained by his limbs, as Little Black explained that dream injuries would affect his real body.
• The mist thickened, and a large snake-like tail coiled around Xie Ji’s body.

In Lu Xunji’s dream, he appeared as a snake-like creature, bound Xie Ji, and bit and kissed him while calling him his sacrifice. Xie Ji bit him back, but Lu Xunji claimed his venom would fill Xie Ji’s veins and that he could not escape.

• Lu Xunji wrapped his tail around Xie Ji, licked his ear, and bit his neck, calling him a delicious sacrifice.
• Xie Ji tried to talk his way out of the dream and asked Lu Xunji to show himself and explain what kind of snake he was.
• Lu Xunji kissed Xie Ji until he struggled for air, then mocked him for not knowing how to kiss.
• Angry at being bound, bitten, and kissed, Xie Ji refused to cater to Lu Xunji and bit his lower lip.
• Lu Xunji pressed his bloody fingers to Xie Ji’s lips, kissed him again, and warned that his venom would fill Xie Ji’s veins and he could not get away.

Xie Ji woke from a dream about Lu Xunji with a nosebleed and found himself bound by Lu Xunji’s bathrobe sash. After Lu Xunji and Ji Shi bickered over their relationships with Xie Ji, the two were left watching him head downstairs for breakfast.

• In the dream, Lu Xunji showed Xie Ji his snake form, said they would meet again, and vanished as the dream ended.
• Xie Ji woke beside Lu Xunji with his hands tied and a nosebleed, then accused Lu Xunji of having strange dreams.
• Lu Xunji carried Xie Ji to the bathroom, where they argued about the previous night and Xie Ji claimed he and Lu Xunji were real brothers with different parents.
• Xie Ji found Ji Shi sitting outside Lu Xunji’s room after Lu Xunji had kicked him out the night before.
• Lu Xunji and Ji Shi traded insults over who was Xie Ji’s real brother and who was his platonic friend, then Xie Ji pushed past them to go get breakfast.
• After Xie Ji left, Ji Shi warned Lu Xunji not to make a move on him, and Lu Xunji replied that Xie Ji had slept with his arms around him.

At breakfast, Mu Yao found the production team’s food unappetizing until watching Xie Ji eat made him hungry enough to finish his meal. Mu Yao tried to charm Xie Ji, but Ji Shi interrupted to warn him away, leaving Mu Yao to insult Ji Shi.

• Mu Yao struggled with the plain breakfast after a hungry day spent cleaning a fishpond, while Shang Yan left and Zhou Heyu took his food upstairs.
• Xie Ji ate the buns and soy milk with relish, making Mu Yao reconsider the meal and finish his breakfast while watching him.
• Mu Yao introduced himself to Xie Ji and tried to flirt, but Xie Ji’s blunt replies quickly deflated the attempt.
• Lu Xunji overheard their exchange and laughed as Ji Shi came downstairs and sat beside Xie Ji.
• Ji Shi put an arm around Xie Ji, called Mu Yao a scumbag, and told Xie Ji to ignore him, prompting Mu Yao to insult Ji Shi.

Ji Shi argued with Mu Yao over Xie Ji, then warned Xie Ji to stay away from Mu Yao and asked about his relationship with Lu Xunji. With the others gone to work, Xie Ji watched Lu Xunji work in the courtyard until Lu Xunji noticed him staring and called him a pervert.

• Mu Yao teased Xie Ji before leaving, prompting Ji Shi to threaten him and refuse to go work with Zhou Heyu.
• Shang Yan returned and persuaded Ji Shi to stop arguing and join Zhou Heyu in the fields.
• Ji Shi warned Xie Ji about Mu Yao and asked whether Xie Ji and Lu Xunji were close; Xie Ji called them close friends.
• After the others left, Xie Ji stayed in the courtyard while Lu Xunji worked on the fishpond and flower bed.
• Xie Ji stared at Lu Xunji as he worked and poured water over himself, and Lu Xunji finally called him a little pervert.

After Lu Xunji cleaned Xie Ji’s nosebleed, they tested what each remembered from a dream and discussed their closeness. Lu Xunji asked what they were to each other, and Xie Ji said their kiss was secret but meant they had no relationship.

• Lu Xunji gently cleaned the blood from Xie Ji’s nose, while livestream viewers commented on their intimate behavior.
• Xie Ji went to check whether the person wearing a blue headscarf had arrived, but Lu Xunji asked what he meant by ordinary friends and family.
• Xie Ji said friends and family could mean good friends who occasionally kissed, and Lu Xunji blushed and asked if Xie Ji had found out.
• Xie Ji asked whether Lu Xunji had secretly kissed him in his sleep, and Lu Xunji said he had only brushed against him by accident.
• Lu Xunji asked what they were now, and Xie Ji called them secret-kiss relations but said the kiss was secret, so they had no relationship.