Chapter Summaries

Xie Ji reassured Blue Headscarf that his wife had not cheated, then admitted he had tricked him into buying three cows for fifteen thousand yuan. When Blue Headscarf chased him down, Xie Ji used Little Black, a venomous snake, to lash him three times.

• Lu Xunji pinched Xie Ji's cheek, but Xie Ji found no sign that Lu Xunji remembered their dream.
• Blue Headscarf brought Xie Ji three cows and asked whether his wife had cheated on him.
• Xie Ji told Blue Headscarf his wife had not cheated, then claimed the cows could not talk and mocked him for paying fifteen thousand yuan.
• Blue Headscarf chased Xie Ji through the production grounds, demanding his money back.
• When Blue Headscarf caught up, Xie Ji pulled out Little Black and lashed him three times while the snake protested that it could bite him.

Xie Ji claimed the speaking black snake was his and Lu Xunji’s child to avoid a penalty, and the snake proved it by calling Lu Xunji “Dad.” The stunt stunned the director and sent viewers flocking to Xie Ji’s livestream, while Lu Xunji’s favorability toward Xie Ji fluctuated over his mixed feelings about their supposed child.

• The director ordered ten thousand deducted from Xie Ji’s starting funds for bringing a pet, but Xie Ji insisted he had found Little Black on the island.
• Xie Ji declared Little Black was his and Lu Xunji’s baby and claimed he had given birth to the snake after arriving on the island.
• When the director demanded proof, Xie Ji smacked Little Black’s head and told him to say hello, and the injured snake called Lu Xunji “Dad.”
• The director fainted after his mug shattered, and Xie Ji’s livestream gained over a hundred thousand viewers as rumors spread about him and Lu Xunji.
• Lu Xunji’s favorability toward Xie Ji rose and fell as he reacted to being called a father and considered whether he liked the snake.

Xie Ji's casual denial of having feelings for Lu Xunji lowered Lu Xunji's favorability, while a system malfunction left Little Black smoking and apparently dying. Little Black revived after the system integrated an unknown value, and Xie Ji discovered Ji Shi's favorability toward him was 100.

• Ji Shi returned from the fields, learned Xie Ji had pretended to be Lu Xunji's partner, and hurried to confront him.
• Ji Shi asked whether Xie Ji had feelings for Lu Xunji, and Xie Ji denied it while Lu Xunji overheard and lost five favorability points.
• The system began a repair sequence as Xie Ji noticed Little Black was burning hot and limp.
• Xie Ji shook Little Black and then tossed it into a basin, telling Ji Shi to boil water and prepare spices.
• The system completed its integration, Little Black revived and struck Xie Ji, and a new favorability bar showed Ji Shi's favorability at 100.

Xie Ji learned that Ji Shi’s affection for him had reached the maximum and that he had to lower it to zero or less before the worldline ended. After the guests finished work and shopping, Ji Shi spent all his funds on personal necessities, and the group chat descended into teasing and arguments.

• Little Black told Xie Ji that Ji Shi’s affection had triggered the tracking system and that Xie Ji had to return it to zero or lower before the worldline ended.
• Xie Ji struggled to look Ji Shi in the eye after discovering Ji Shi’s feelings for him.
• Mu Yao returned from cleaning the fishpond, and the guests finished their work and went shopping at the supermarket.
• Ji Shi spent all his starting funds on daily necessities and bedroom furnishings, ignoring Zhou Heyu’s warning to save money for planting seedlings.
• Xie Ji changed the group chat name repeatedly, while Mu Yao, Ji Shi, and Zhou Heyu joined in with teasing and complaints.

Xie Ji left Lu Xunji’s room with Ji Shi, despite Lu Xunji’s warning, and heard Ji Shi confess his feelings. Ji Shi waited for Xie Ji’s response after admitting how jealous and unsettled he felt whenever others got close to him.

• Ji Shi pulled Xie Ji away from Lu Xunji’s bedroom and asked him to come with him.
• Xie Ji chose to leave with Ji Shi after considering how much Ji Shi had given him.
• The system reported that Xie Ji’s affection with Lu Xunji had fallen to -250.
• Ji Shi brought Xie Ji to his room and told him he was happy to see him despite his exhausting day.
• Ji Shi admitted that he felt jealous when Mu Yao or Lu Xunji got close to Xie Ji, then asked if Xie Ji understood what he meant.

Ji Shi confessed to Xie Ji, who rejected him because he believed he had someone he liked, though he could not remember who. After gaming with Ji Shi, Xie Ji caught up with an agitated Lu Xunji and pinned him against a wall.

• Ji Shi confessed that he liked Xie Ji and asked whether they would date, but Xie Ji said no.
• Xie Ji told Ji Shi that he thought he liked someone whose identity and face he could not remember.
• Ji Shi and Xie Ji played a two-player game while Lu Xunji waited for Xie Ji to return and grew jealous outside the room.
• Xie Ji left Ji Shi and hurried after Lu Xunji, trying to calm him as Lu Xunji angrily told him to get lost.
• Xie Ji grabbed Lu Xunji by the collar, slammed him against the wall, and leaned close.

Xie Ji’s desperate kiss with Lu Xunji raised Lu Xunji’s affection score enough to keep Xie Ji safe, though Lu Xunji stopped when Xie Ji said he was hurting. Later, Xie Ji realized Ji Shi’s affection had nearly recovered without costing him his reward points, so he messaged Ji Shi to try to lower it again.

• Xie Ji rushed to Lu Xunji and kissed him when the affection score plunged toward the dangerous threshold, and Lu Xunji deepened the kiss and carried him home.
• Lu Xunji pinned Xie Ji on the bed and kissed him until Xie Ji said it hurt, then stopped and asked why Xie Ji had not resisted.
• Xie Ji cooled his swollen lips with an ice cube and saw Lu Xunji’s affection score rise to -201.
• Xie Ji checked Ji Shi’s affection score and found it had fallen to ninety-eight percent, earning him twenty points for the decrease.
• Xie Ji watched Ji Shi’s affection climb back to ninety-nine percent without losing his points, then messaged Ji Shi with an offer to show him his chest.

After Ji Shi's awkward reaction to Xie Ji's chest X-ray, Xie Ji used the points he earned to make a ten-pull, then was tempted by Lu Xunji's half-dressed body. Lu Xunji offered to let him touch if he stayed away from Ji Shi, and Xie Ji asked if he could lick him once.

• Ji Shi's affection for Xie Ji reached its cap, then dropped by ten after Xie Ji sent him a chest X-ray, earning Xie Ji 100 shop points.
• Xie Ji spent the points on a ten-pull and received several beauty items and a Hand of the God of Cooking.
• Lu Xunji emerged from the bathroom in a towel and guided Xie Ji's hand to his waist.
• Lu Xunji offered to let Xie Ji touch him if Xie Ji came to him instead of Ji Shi.
• Xie Ji asked Lu Xunji whether he could lick him once.

Lu Xunji bit Xie Ji’s shoulder during a moment of jealousy and desire, then treated the wound and tried to sleep beside him. Xie Ji retaliated by biting Lu Xunji’s lower abdomen, and the chapter ended with Lu Xunji catching Xie Ji’s ankle and lowering his head toward his heel.

• Lu Xunji, overcome by jealousy and desire, bit Xie Ji’s shoulder and stuffed a bath towel into his mouth.
• Xie Ji cried from the pain, and Lu Xunji treated his wound before telling him to sleep.
• Lu Xunji felt guilty as he watched Xie Ji pretend to sleep beside him.
• Xie Ji sprang up and bit Lu Xunji’s lower abdomen in retaliation.
• Lu Xunji caught Xie Ji’s ankle and lowered his head toward his heel after Xie Ji dared him to bite it.

After Xie Ji and Lu Xunji shared an awkward night of teasing and domestic intimacy, Xie Ji fell asleep and was pulled into the system’s second punishment dream. He awoke dressed in a nightdress in a nineteenth-century room and was shocked when Ji Shi appeared at the door.

• Xie Ji complained that Lu Xunji had bitten his toe, then discovered Lu Xunji had thrown away his toothbrush and replaced it with a matching electric set.
• Xie Ji and Lu Xunji brushed their teeth together, trading jokes until Lu Xunji briefly frightened Xie Ji before soothing him by playing with his hair.
• Xie Ji fell asleep, and the system announced that the second punishment round had begun because favorability had dropped below the threshold.
• Xie Ji woke in an ornate nineteenth-century-style room wearing a white silk nightdress and assumed Lu Xunji liked girls.
• Someone unlocked the door and entered, and Xie Ji recognized the visitor as Ji Shi.

Xie Ji dreamed that he was Lu Xunji’s wife and secretly summoned Lu Xunji, playing the role of a farmhand, to his bedroom. Lu Xunji nearly gave in to the dream’s illicit-affair scenario but stopped when Xie Ji asked him to, leaving Xie Ji to wonder what Princess Jiji had been reading.

• Xie Ji found Ji Shi in Lu Xunji’s dream and was shocked when Ji Shi called him his wife and put him to bed.
• After Ji Shi failed to wake when someone knocked, Xie Ji opened the door and found Lu Xunji dressed as a farmhand.
• Lu Xunji began undressing Xie Ji, and Xie Ji realized the dream had cast them as a young madam and a farmhand having an affair.
• Xie Ji asked Lu Xunji to stop and explain later, and Lu Xunji rolled away, tidied his clothes, and held him instead.
• After Lu Xunji left, Xie Ji noticed the fingerprints on his thighs and decided to restrict Princess Jiji’s reading.

Xie Ji woke in Lu Xunji’s possessive embrace, and Lu Xunji teased him about the bite mark he had left during the dream. Xie Ji tried to dismiss his growing attraction, while Lu Xunji went out for a shirtless morning run and ran into Ji Shi.

• Ji Shi woke and called Xie Ji his wife, then confessed he believed his impotence made him a useless husband.
• Xie Ji reassured Ji Shi and went to bed; after Lu Xunji’s dream ended, Xie Ji fell asleep too.
• Xie Ji woke in Lu Xunji’s arms and poked his stomach, prompting Lu Xunji to tease him about the bite mark and his favorability to rise by 50 to -149.
• Xie Ji washed up and tried to deny that Lu Xunji was affecting him, then saw him dressed for a shirtless morning run.
• Lu Xunji left for his run and ran into Ji Shi, who had dreamed that Xie Ji was his wife and that he could not get it up.

Ji Shi and Mu Yao grew jealous after seeing bite marks left by Xie Ji and Lu Xunji, while viewers speculated about their relationship. Mu Yao confronted Xie Ji, who confirmed Lu Xunji had bitten him and ordered Mu Yao to leave despite his apology and offered rose.

• Ji Shi saw Lu Xunji's waist bite mark and grew jealous, while Xie Ji received points when Ji Shi's affection for him dropped.
• Lu Xunji worked out shirtless as the livestream resumed, and viewers noticed the bite mark on his waist and guessed Xie Ji had left it.
• Mu Yao spotted a bite mark on Xie Ji's shoulder and cornered him in the changing room to demand who had bitten him.
• Xie Ji pushed Mu Yao away, warned him about his manners, and tacitly confirmed Lu Xunji was responsible.
• Mu Yao apologized and offered Xie Ji a rose, but Xie Ji told him to get out.

Mu Yao’s rose sparked a jealous argument between him and Lu Xunji, while Xie Ji tried to claim the flower for its points value. After breakfast, Xie Ji went to the cowshed to tend to his cow.

• Mu Yao brought a rose to breakfast, and Lu Xunji demanded two hundred points for it because he had grown it.
• Ji Shi explained that Lu Xunji had redeemed the rose seedlings, and Xie Ji eagerly tried to take the rose back for its value.
• Lu Xunji snapped the rose off its stem and claimed it as his, prompting Mu Yao to trade insults with him.
• Xie Ji asked Ji Shi who should repay the points if the rivals fought over the rose.
• Zhou Heyu and Shang Yan collected breakfast and returned to their rooms, and Xie Ji later went to tend to his cow.

Xie Ji finished his farm chores, cared for Lu Xunji’s injured hands, and went to find Ji Shi when he failed to return by nightfall. After discovering Ji Shi was still planting rice alone, Xie Ji stepped into the paddy to help, leaving Lu Xunji to steady him.

• Xie Ji planned the farm’s expansion, bought chickens and ducks, and worked on their enclosure until nightfall.
• Xie Ji applied ointment to Lu Xunji’s cuts, and Lu Xunji briefly sucked on Xie Ji’s finger before coughing and fleeing to rinse his mouth.
• When Ji Shi was still missing late in the evening, Xie Ji exchanged points for a flashlight and dinner, then went with Lu Xunji to look for him.
• Xie Ji and Lu Xunji found Ji Shi planting rice alone in the muddy field; Ji Shi said he would finish soon and warned them about leeches.
• Xie Ji took rice seedlings from Ji Shi and offered to help, asking Lu Xunji to hold him steady.

Xie Ji joined Ji Shi and Lu Xunji in planting seedlings, but fell in the mud and was injured by a leech. Lu Xunji treated his foot and kept him out of the paddy while he and Ji Shi finished the work.

• Xie Ji awkwardly helped Ji Shi plant seedlings in the paddy alongside Lu Xunji.
• Xie Ji fell into the mud, and Lu Xunji carried him to the ridge and cleaned his foot.
• Lu Xunji removed a leech from Xie Ji's calf and ordered him to stay out of the water.
• Xie Ji held the flashlight while Lu Xunji and Ji Shi returned to planting.

After Ji Shi and Lu Xunji finished planting the rice, Xie Ji comforted Ji Shi, who reached 100 favorability toward him. Back at the residence, Lu Xunji cared for Xie Ji and made a suggestive remark that stirred up the livestream viewers, while Shang Yan grew wary of Xie Ji.

• Ji Shi thanked Xie Ji for waiting and helping him, and the system announced that Ji Shi's favorability had reached 100.
• Mu Yao mocked Ji Shi for keeping everyone awake, then clashed with him again until Shang Yan intervened.
• Lu Xunji applied medicine to Xie Ji's injured ankle while Mu Yao tried to get Xie Ji's attention.
• Shang Yan met Xie Ji's gaze and felt an unsettling sense of danger before Lu Xunji turned Xie Ji's attention back to him.
• Lu Xunji carried Xie Ji to their room and made a suggestive remark that set off the livestream chat, leaving Ji Shi and Shang Yan indignant.

After Young Field went viral for its guests’ romantic tension, Director He imposed a new challenge requiring them to buy and cook their own food. Mu Yao nearly quit, but stayed after seeing Xie Ji and greeting him as his “little mermaid.”

• Netizens’ thirst-filled discussions pushed Young Field into the trending rankings overnight.
• Director He discovered the show’s popularity and ordered the guests to buy their own ingredients and pay for them.
• Mu Yao complained about the production team’s new rules and told his mother he wanted to quit filming.
• After spotting Xie Ji, Mu Yao changed his mind, hung up on his mother, and called Xie Ji his little mermaid.
• Xie Ji asked Mu Yao whether he had gone crazy raising fish.

After the production team stopped providing meals, Xie Ji’s jokes got him assigned to shop with Lu Xunji. He spent his system points on lottery draws, but won only a fragment of the rare skill he wanted, leaving him distraught and prompting Ji Shi to blame Mu Yao.

• The production team announced that guests had to buy their own ingredients, and Director He assigned Xie Ji and Lu Xunji to shop after Xie Ji provoked him.
• Xie Ji learned that his new lottery shop items included an ultra-rare Turn Stone into Gold skill and spent his points on seventy draws.
• Xie Ji won pills, rosemary, and one Turn Stone into Gold Fragment, which would require ninety-nine fragments to make the skill.
• Xie Ji cried to Lu Xunji that the system had scammed him, and Ji Shi grabbed Mu Yao by the collar, demanding to know what he had done.

Xie Ji and Lu Xunji tried to earn money in a small coastal town, where Xie Ji planned to sell system-shop pills as health supplements. They left with cheap jars for packaging and a plan to run from the authorities if necessary.

• Xie Ji learned that the town could not process Lu Xunji’s black card and decided to find a way to make money.
• Xie Ji took Lu Xunji to a jar shop, where Lu exposed the owner’s fake jade and purple clay wares.
• Xie Ji used Lu’s appraisal to bargain the six jars down to forty, and Lu admitted he had made up his explanation about the teapot.
• Xie Ji showed Lu his Whitening Pill and Hair-Growth Pill and explained that he meant to sell them in the jars for 9,999 each.
• Lu pointed out that selling health supplements required qualifications and a business license, and Xie Ji said he would run from urban management.