Chapter Summaries

Xie Ji and Lu Xunji shared an intimate moment in the hospital before returning home with Shang Yan. Shang Yan discussed selling Xie Ji’s harmless pills as Young Field merchandise, then asked whether Xie Ji liked Lu Xunji, and Xie Ji admitted that he did.

• Lu Xunji pulled Xie Ji into the hospital bathroom, teased him, and kissed him before sending him back out.
• Xie Ji watched Lu Xunji for half an hour to see if his condition improved, then fled when Lu Xunji warned he might get fucked.
• Lu Xunji insisted on leaving the hospital despite his arm wound, and Xie Ji worried about him on the trip back.
• Shang Yan told Xie Ji that tests found no harmful ingredients in his pills and proposed selling them under the Young Field name; Xie Ji agreed.
• Shang Yan asked Xie Ji whether he liked Lu Xunji, and Xie Ji answered that he did.

Xie Ji returned to the island with the injured Lu Xunji after Shang Yan warned him to set boundaries around Lu Xunji’s kisses. At the courtyard, Xie Ji rushed to greet A-Gang and A-Qiang, leaving Lu Xunji sitting alone and displeased.

• Shang Yan warned Xie Ji that Lu Xunji was taking advantage of him by kissing him and urged him to refuse further kisses.
• Xie Ji agreed not to let Lu Xunji kiss him again, though he did not fully understand Shang Yan’s concerns.
• The airship reached the island, where Ji Shi, Mu Yao, and Zhou Heyu welcomed Xie Ji back and noticed Lu Xunji was injured.
• Shang Yan told Ji Shi to stay away from Lu Xunji without explaining what had happened on the airship.
• Xie Ji helped Lu Xunji toward the courtyard, then let go of him to greet A-Gang and A-Qiang.
• Xie Ji offered to treat Lu Xunji’s wound, but Lu Xunji coldly told him to go about his business.

Xie Ji tended to the animals and then insisted on cooking dinner despite everyone’s doubts, while Lu Xunji refused to let Ji Shi treat his wound. Xie Ji finished a meal that looked delicious and went upstairs to call Lu Xunji down to eat.

• Xie Ji fetched ointment for Lu Xunji, but Lu Xunji said he wanted Xie Ji to treat him instead of Ji Shi.
• Xie Ji checked the livestock sheds and cleaned them before returning to the residence at sunset.
• With Lu Xunji injured and no one else able to cook, Xie Ji ignored the others’ warnings and went into the kitchen to make dinner.
• Xie Ji emerged soot-covered after an hour and a half, with five dishes and a soup ready.
• Xie Ji went upstairs to call Lu Xunji down to dinner while the others went into the kitchen to bring out the food.

Xie Ji treated Lu Xunji’s inflamed wounds, but Lu Xunji demanded a kiss and kissed him before Xie Ji stopped him. Xie Ji refused to let Lu Xunji kiss him again because Shang Yan had told him not to, leaving Lu Xunji visibly displeased.

• Xie Ji found Lu Xunji in his bedroom and discovered that his arm was still bleeding because he had not applied the medicine.
• Xie Ji cleaned and bandaged Lu Xunji’s wounds while Lu Xunji held the back of his neck and reacted intensely to the treatment.
• Lu Xunji asked Xie Ji for a kiss, then kissed him before Xie Ji could object.
• Xie Ji pulled away and told Lu Xunji that Shang Yan had said he could not kiss him anymore.
• Lu Xunji narrowed his eyes when Xie Ji said Shang Yan had called him a creep for bullying him.

Lu Xunji admitted that anxiety made him crave sex and propositioned Xie Ji, who rejected him and urged him to go eat. As Xie Ji tried to leave, Lu Xunji caught his wrist.

• Lu Xunji told Xie Ji that he sometimes wanted to have sex when he felt anxious.
• Xie Ji tried to comfort Lu Xunji and wondered whether a girlfriend might help him.
• Lu Xunji said he wanted to lick Xie Ji's hand and asked him to have sex.
• Xie Ji refused, called Lu Xunji's advances sexual harassment, and told him to eat or take care of himself alone.
• Xie Ji turned to leave after Lu Xunji refused to come downstairs, but Lu Xunji caught his wrist.

Xie Ji left Lu Xunji alone after Lu Xunji asked him to stay, then joined the others for dinner and decided to bring Lu Xunji some plain congee. The others and the livestream viewers interpreted Xie Ji’s care as guilt over their families’ past, while Lu Xunji stayed upstairs.

• Lu Xunji asked Xie Ji to stay with him, but Xie Ji left and found Lu Xunji’s favorability had reached zero.
• Xie Ji ran into Ji Shi on the stairs and said he had changed Lu Xunji’s dressing.
• The group ate Xie Ji’s meal, and Shang Yan asked why Lu Xunji had not come downstairs.
• Xie Ji hurried through dinner so he could prepare plain congee for Lu Xunji, whose wound was inflamed.
• The viewers praised Xie Ji and speculated about his relationship with Lu Xunji and Ji Shi.

Xie Ji left dinner early to make congee for feverish Lu Xunji, who ate only after Xie Ji picked out the century egg and fed him. When Xie Ji stayed by the bed, Lu Xunji asked him to kiss him.

• Xie Ji hurried away from dinner to cook for Lu Xunji, while Ji Shi resented how much attention Xie Ji gave him.
• Xie Ji made century egg and lean meat congee and brought it upstairs to Lu Xunji, who had a fever and refused to eat the century egg.
• Lu Xunji agreed to eat after Xie Ji removed the century egg, then asked Xie Ji to feed him.
• Lu Xunji finished the congee and stopped Xie Ji from leaving, so Xie Ji stayed beside his bed.
• Lu Xunji told Xie Ji that his mouth felt hot and asked whether he wanted to kiss him.

Xie Ji gave in when Lu Xunji asked for a kiss, but Lu Xunji kissed him far longer and more intensely than promised. Xie Ji told him it could not happen again and went to bed beside him, while Lu Xunji questioned whether Xie Ji cared about Shang Yan.

• Xie Ji kissed Lu Xunji after Lu Xunji said he would be unhappy without one.
• Lu Xunji pulled Xie Ji into his arms and kissed him repeatedly until Xie Ji finally stopped him.
• Xie Ji asked whether Lu Xunji had kissed anyone else, and Lu Xunji said he had only ever kissed Xie Ji.
• Lu Xunji explained how he had previously managed his anxiety, and Xie Ji suggested he see a doctor after the variety show.
• Xie Ji told Lu Xunji not to tell Shang Yan and insisted the kiss could not happen again.
• Xie Ji washed the bowl, showered, and got into bed beside Lu Xunji.

Lu Xunji made Xie Ji a late-night meal and pressed him about whether he liked Shang Yan, then kissed him after dinner. He carried the dazed Xie Ji back to bed.

• Xie Ji accepted Lu Xunji’s offer to cook and followed him downstairs to the kitchen.
• Lu Xunji made tomato and egg noodles, and Xie Ji ate nearly the entire bowl.
• Lu Xunji asked whether Xie Ji liked Shang Yan more than him, and Xie Ji said he liked Shang Yan as a friend.
• After Xie Ji finished eating, Lu Xunji kissed him for more than half an hour, then finished the leftover noodles.
• Lu Xunji carried the dazed Xie Ji back to bed.

Xie Ji asked Lu Xunji about the years he had spent away from his birth family, and Lu Xunji began describing the hardship of his childhood. He left Xie Ji wondering what happened after Lu Xunji was admitted to a city secondary school.

• Lu Xunji held Xie Ji and offered to chat while rubbing his full belly.
• Xie Ji asked whether his parents had treated Lu Xunji well, but Lu Xunji initially avoided the subject.
• Lu Xunji admitted that his adoptive family had treated him poorly and described waking at four to do chores before walking five kilometers to school.
• Lu Xunji said his teacher had paid his tuition and that he had excelled in exams to prove he deserved her support.
• Lu Xunji explained that after elementary school he earned a place at the city's best secondary school, but his family still would not let him attend.

Lu Xunji told Xie Ji about his childhood abuse and the teacher who rescued him, then described his dangerous urges, self-harm, and the teacher's failed attempts to help him. He left off recounting how she discovered his pornography and shouted at him in disappointment.

• Lu Xunji told Xie Ji that his family locked him in a pigpen for over a month because he refused to quit studying.
• Lu Xunji said his teacher found him in the pigpen, took him home, and cared for him through the rest of summer vacation.
• Lu Xunji recounted excelling in school while pursuing dangerous hobbies and earning money to fund them.
• Lu Xunji said he agreed to stop extreme sports when his teacher objected, but later began hurting himself to suppress his urges.
• Lu Xunji described how his teacher took him to psychologists without success and eventually discovered his pornography collection, then shouted at him in disappointment.

Xie Ji comforted Lu Xunji over his painful past and promised not to abandon him, then agreed to cuddle with him for the night. The next morning, Ji Shi found Lu Xunji missing from the courtyard and heard Xie Ji complain from behind Lu Xunji’s closed door.

• Xie Ji apologized to Lu Xunji and promised he would never give up on him.
• Lu Xunji kissed Xie Ji, who protested that he was straight and told Lu Xunji not to touch him that way again.
• Lu Xunji acted hurt when Xie Ji refused to cuddle, so Xie Ji coaxed him and let him hold him as they slept.
• Ji Shi woke early, found Lu Xunji absent from the courtyard, and hurried to his door.
• Ji Shi heard Xie Ji exclaim that Lu Xunji was poking him again.

Xie Ji and Lu Xunji grew closer, making Ji Shi jealous, before Shang Yan gathered the group to discuss the next phase of the Young Field project. The group planned to launch a farmstay brand, and Xie Ji learned that pill sales had already earned Young Field around a million in startup capital.

• Xie Ji and Lu Xunji bickered while getting ready, and Ji Shi barged in to check on Xie Ji before Lu Xunji sent him away.
• Ji Shi worried that Xie Ji was growing closer to Lu Xunji and recognized that Xie Ji had firmly placed him in the friend category after his failed confession.
• Shang Yan called the group together and announced that the Young Field project would move into creating and registering a farmstay brand.
• Ji Shi discussed branding, publicity, visitor routes, and the need for startup capital, while Shang Yan explained that pill sales had provided about a million.
• Xie Ji began coughing as he realized the project’s share of pill sales was already so large, and wondered how much money he had earned himself.

Xie Ji and Lu Xunji clashed with Ji Shi over the farmstay’s name, while Lu Xunji provoked Xie Ji with private teasing and suggestive remarks. As Lu Xunji furnished the house and worked on a design, Xie Ji offered to find him a partner, but Lu Xunji said he would never fall for anyone.

• Xie Ji celebrated Shang Yan’s promise to transfer his share of the money before year’s end.
• Ji Shi mocked Lu Xunji and tried to grab him, but Xie Ji intervened and proposed naming the farmstay Brother House Affection.
• Lu Xunji teased Xie Ji intimately, angering Ji Shi, while Shang Yan told both men to rein in their behavior.
• Director He learned that Lu Xunji had requested a gay sex guidebook and arranged for the books to be delivered to him for free.
• Lu Xunji brought furniture to the house and sketched a sunny, cozy design, adding the word “love” as Xie Ji helped unpack.
• Xie Ji asked Lu Xunji what kind of person he liked and offered to find him a partner, but Lu Xunji said he would never fall for anyone.

Xie Ji woke to find Lu Xunji gone and panicked as he searched the residence. Lu Xunji returned from watering the flowers, comforted him, and explained that he was there.

• Lu Xunji said he could desire someone but did not have the ability to love.
• After the workers returned with more things, Xie Ji fell asleep on the sofa, and Lu Xunji carried him to bed.
• Xie Ji woke in the quiet residence, called for Lu Xunji, and ran outside barefoot to look for him.
• Lu Xunji returned from watering the China roses and caught Xie Ji as he stumbled into him.
• Lu Xunji carried Xie Ji inside, wiped his feet, and reassured him that he was there.

Lu Xunji renovated the courtyard while Xie Ji played with the fish and dogs, and his flirtation over Xie Ji’s feet continued. Shang Yan confronted Lu Xunji about how he treated Xie Ji, but Xie Ji rushed in before Lu Xunji could respond, eager to show him something he had found.

• Lu Xunji put slippers on Xie Ji and praised his feet, while Xie Ji objected to his advances and Lu Xunji refused to change.
• Xie Ji played in the courtyard pond with the fish as Lu Xunji watched him and later dried his feet.
• Xie Ji took A-Gang and A-Qiang out for a walk, prompting Ji Shi to go look for him when he had not returned by evening.
• Shang Yan praised Lu Xunji’s design work, then challenged him about sharing a bedroom with Xie Ji and urged him to treat Xie Ji with respect.
• Lu Xunji told Shang Yan not to interfere in his relationship with Xie Ji, and Xie Ji burst into the courtyard to show Lu Xunji something he had found.

Xie Ji caught a firefly but released it after learning it would soon die in captivity. Gangzi ate it before it could fly away, and Xie Ji made her mourn the bug with a grave, leaving Lu Xunji to add a teasing inscription before calling them in to eat.

• Xie Ji caught a firefly and asked Lu Xunji how to keep it, but released it after learning it would die soon in captivity.
• Xie Ji returned the firefly to the rice paddies, where Gangzi pounced on him and swallowed it.
• Xie Ji brought Gangzi home and tried to make her apologize, but Lu Xunji stopped him and told him to wash up for dinner.
• Xie Ji built a grave for the firefly in the dog villa and made Gangzi wear a paper mourning collar.
• Lu Xunji added the inscription “Fragrance lingered between canine teeth” to the grave, then called Xie Ji in to eat.

Xie Ji struggled to understand the tension at dinner and learned that Ji Shi needed to work out their relationship, while Lu Xunji continued making provocative advances. The chapter left Xie Ji refusing to share a bed with Lu Xunji but unable to bring himself to seriously rebuke him.

• Xie Ji noticed the others were unusually quiet at dinner, and Lu Xunji told him Ji Shi needed to work out the nature of their relationship.
• Xie Ji helped care for the puppies as Lu Xunji’s training made the mischievous A-Gang obedient around him.
• Shang Yan told Xie Ji that the bedrooms were finished, so Xie Ji decided to move into his own room instead of sleeping with Lu Xunji.
• Xie Ji told Lu Xunji he could accept kissing and hugging but not Lu Xunji’s other morning advances.
• Lu Xunji teased Xie Ji with claims about his book and invited him to touch his body, but Xie Ji pulled away and called him a pervert.

After Xie Ji left Lu Xunji alone overnight, he wondered whether Lu Xunji was upset with him and noticed the ways Lu Xunji still cared for him. The next day, Xie Ji arranged for Zhou Heyu to buy Lu Xunji plenty of cherries, while Lu Xunji continued working around the courtyard.

• Xie Ji left Lu Xunji for the night, and Lu Xunji recalled how people had shunned and humiliated him before falling asleep with Xie Ji’s pillow.
• The next morning, Xie Ji watched Lu Xunji exercise, care for the puppies, and make breakfast while Ji Shi accused Lu Xunji of putting on an act.
• Xie Ji found that Lu Xunji had cleaned the puppies’ villa and left green leaves by Brother Bug’s gravestone, then spent the morning wondering whether Lu Xunji was angry with him.
• When Zhou Heyu asked what supplies to buy for the puppies, Xie Ji sent him money for their formula, snacks, fresh shrimp, fruit, and plenty of cherries because Lu Xunji liked them.

Xie Ji tried to make peace with Lu Xunji and his friends by sharing farm produce, while Lu Xunji came to escort him home and promised to warm milk for him again. Later, Mu Yao and Zhou Heyu returned with a lavish haul of groceries, and Xie Ji searched through it for the cherries he had bought for Lu Xunji.

• Xie Ji saw that Lu Xunji's affection score was still zero, but decided to coax him with expensive cherries.
• Lu Xunji came to the farm to take Xie Ji home, and Xie Ji asked whether he had been angry; Lu Xunji denied it and promised to warm milk for him next time.
• Xie Ji gave Ji Shi two duck eggs and teased him until Ji Shi took them and ran back to his room.
• Mu Yao and Zhou Heyu returned to the island with a large amount of food, including two king crabs Mu Yao had bought cheaply.
• Xie Ji searched through the groceries for the cherries he had bought for Lu Xunji.