Recaps

As the variety show began filming in Qingyuan Town, Song Shiwei’s thoughts revealed that Bai Qiuhe had deceived Xu Zizhen and Xi Zining in the past and would ruin them with fabricated evidence. The group headed to the watermelon fields, while Ouyang Ye’s worried fans raised questions about his disappearance and Song Shiwei wondered how he had died.

• Ouyang Ye’s fans flooded the livestream, asking Bai Qiuhe for news because Ouyang Ye had been missing for over ten days, despite her claim that she had been with him the previous night.
• Song Shiwei wondered how Ouyang Ye had died, and the production team interrupted the tense gathering to welcome the guests to Qingyuan Town’s watermelon fields.
• Song Shiwei and the others set off for the fields, while Bai Qiuhe complained that she could barely walk and asked Xu Zizhen and Xi Zining to help her.
• Xu Zizhen and Xi Zining refused to help Bai Qiuhe, and Song Shiwei’s thoughts revealed that Bai Qiuhe had once tricked them by claiming she had a terminal illness.
• Song Shiwei’s thoughts revealed that Bai Qiuhe would use carefully prepared evidence to portray Xu Zizhen and Xi Zining as abusers and adulterers, despite them being her victims.

Song Shiwei, Jiang Zhuxin, Xu Zizhen, and Xi Zining rejected Bai Qiuhe’s attempts to guilt them, while livestream viewers uncovered disturbing rumors about her fixation on Ouyang Ye. A caller then reported that Ouyang Ye had been found dead and accused Bai Qiuhe, prompting Captain Liu to promise an investigation.

• Xu Zizhen and Xi Zining grew angry at Bai Qiuhe and refused to play along with her moral blackmail.
• Song Shiwei silently mocked Bai Qiuhe, and Jiang Zhuxin publicly rejected her demand for help.
• Livestream viewers criticized Bai Qiuhe and discussed her obsessive pursuit of Ouyang Ye, including rumors about her whereabouts and photos.
• A young woman called Captain Liu to report that Ouyang Ye had been found dead at home and accused Bai Qiuhe of murdering him.
• Captain Liu reassured the caller that police would investigate and seek justice, despite her fear that Bai Qiuhe would be protected.

Captain Liu sent the injured Jiang Cheng undercover as a new guest on the variety show in Qingyuan Town, where he immediately recognized Bai Qiuhe as a suspected criminal. Meanwhile, an online accusation linked Bai Qiuhe to Xu Zizhen and Xi Zining, and the two found themselves facing a viral allegation that they had driven a woman’s daughter to her death.

• A caller told Captain Liu that the suspect was appearing on “Let's Gossip Together, Shall We” in Qingyuan Town.
• Captain Liu asked Jiang Cheng to go undercover on the show, and Jiang Cheng agreed before learning Song Shiwei would arrange his placement.
• Jiang Cheng arrived at the Melon-Eating Cottage as a new guest and heard Song Shiwei’s thoughts about him and Bai Qiuhe.
• Bai Qiuhe flirted with Jiang Cheng, who regarded her as a suspected criminal and went to speak with the directors.
• Xu Zizhen and Xi Zining saw a trending post in which a woman accused them of cheating during an online romance and causing her daughter’s death.

Xu Zizhen and Xi Zining challenged Bai Qiuhe’s accusations with old chat records and evidence that the post had come from nearby Qingyuan Town. They left the confrontation poised to trace the IP address and find the mother who had made the allegations.

• Bai Qiuhe accused Xu Zizhen and Xi Zining, but Xi Zining insisted they were innocent and had lawyer-notarized evidence.
• Netizens noticed that the post’s IP address was in Qingyuan Town, far from the Ancheng where the mother claimed to live.
• Xi Zining revealed she had kept old chat screenshots and videos that could prove her and Xu Zizhen’s history with Bai Qiuhe.
• Bai Qiuhe panicked when Xi Zining pointed out the post came from nearby, while Xu Zizhen proposed locating its source and confronting the mother.
• Xi Zining reflected that preserving her old romantic messages with Xu Zizhen had given them evidence to defend themselves.

Bai Qiuhe’s remarks exposed that she had deceived Xu Zizhen and Xi Zining before, while her mention of Young Master Ou made Jiang Cheng suspect she had killed him. Xi Zining posted evidence of their past relationship and deception online, leaving netizens piecing together Bai Qiuhe’s possible role.

• Bai Qiuhe suggested the dead victim might come looking for them, and Xu Zizhen and Xi Zining invited the victim to confront them.
• Song Shiwei’s gossip revealed that Bai Qiuhe had deceived another girl who died, shocking Xu Zizhen and Xi Zining.
• Bai Qiuhe mentioned spending the previous night with Young Master Ou, and Jiang Cheng quietly prepared his gun before deciding to observe the others.
• Bai Qiuhe accused Xu Zizhen and Xi Zining of driving a girl to her death, but Xi Zining restrained Xu Zizhen and posted their old evidence on Weibo.
• Netizens discussed the evidence and began suspecting that Bai Qiuhe had been the online friend who deceived Xu Zizhen and Xi Zining.

Song Shiwei revealed that Bai Qiuhe had been sold as a baby, later scammed people, and murdered her adoptive parents. As evidence linked Bai Qiuhe to Ouyang Ye’s death, Jiang Cheng arrested her.

• Song Shiwei explained Bai Qiuhe’s past, including how she exploited her adoptive parents and killed them when they refused to give her money.
• Bai Qiuhe rejected the accusations and threatened to sue Xi Zining, but her erratic reaction heightened suspicions.
• A video showed Bai Qiuhe entering Ouyang Ye’s home for hours before leaving in a panic, and the news of his death spread online.
• Jiang Cheng told Captain Liu that Bai Qiuhe might be responsible for three additional deaths, and Captain Liu ordered her restrained.
• Jiang Cheng pinned Bai Qiuhe down and arrested her on suspicion of murdering Ouyang Ye.

Jiang Cheng questioned Bai Qiuhe about Ouyang Ye’s death, but Song Shiwei realized she was probably being framed rather than being the killer. Online revelations linked Bai Qiuhe to a false story about her adoptive parents’ deaths, and two unidentified skeletons were found near her old hutong.

• Jiang Cheng accused Bai Qiuhe of killing Ouyang Ye, but she said she had only gone to his villa to take photos and had spent the rest of the day editing a video.
• Bai Qiuhe revealed that she had edited the video exposing Xu Zizhen and Xi Zining, while Song Shiwei concluded that Bai Qiuhe was not responsible for Ouyang Ye’s death.
• Jiang Zhuxin asked whether Bai Qiuhe was the dead daughter shown in the video, and Bai Qiuhe denied it while claiming she had been commissioned to edit it.
• A commenter recalled that Bai Qiuhe had been adopted and that her adoptive parents had once been healthy, contradicting Bai Qiuhe’s public claim that they had died years earlier.
• A news story reported that two unidentified bodies had been found during excavation on the hill behind Yangzi Lane Hutong, prompting commenters to suspect they might be Bai Qiuhe’s adoptive parents.

Jiang Cheng and Xi Zining exposed Bai Qiuhe’s long-running deception, and Song Shiwei’s revelations led police to identify Bai Qiuhe’s adoptive parents as murder victims. Bai Qiuhe continued to deny killing Ouyang Ye, while Song Shiwei revealed that someone else had framed her for his death.

• Jiang Cheng confronted Bai Qiuhe with evidence that she had reunited with her biological parents, and Xi Zining showed how that explained the mismatch between the scammer’s claimed birthplace and the deceased’s records.
• Xu Zizhen angrily mocked Bai Qiuhe, while Song Shiwei and Jiang Zhuxin watched the confrontation and ate watermelon.
• Song Shiwei’s thoughts revealed that Bai Qiuhe had killed her adoptive parents, prompting Jiang Cheng to call the police team while restraining her.
• Bai Qiuhe admitted to wrongdoing but denied killing Ouyang Ye, as livestream viewers learned that police had identified her adoptive parents’ remains.
• Song Shiwei revealed that Ouyang Ye’s killer had spent months setting Bai Qiuhe up, manipulating her into stalking him and planting clues for her to find.

Song Shiwei’s thoughts revealed that Ouyang Jing had spent half a year poisoning Ouyang Ye and had framed Bai Qiuhe, then deliberately confessed when Captain Liu questioned her. Captain Liu offered Ouyang Jing a chance to continue her liver cancer research in prison, and she eagerly accepted a life sentence.

• Song Shiwei pieced together that Ouyang Jing had killed Ouyang Ye through a carefully prepared poisoning plan and arranged for Bai Qiuhe to take the blame.
• Song Shiwei’s thoughts revealed Ouyang Jing’s abuse by Ouyang Ye, her severe depression, and the valuable liver cancer research she had developed.
• Jiang Cheng relayed Song Shiwei’s revelations to Captain Liu, who questioned Ouyang Jing and heard her confess to killing Ouyang Ye.
• Captain Liu offered Ouyang Jing the chance to continue her research in prison on the condition that she remain there for life, and Ouyang Jing gladly agreed.

Captain Liu arranged for Ouyang Jing to confront Bai Qiuhe about the murder of her adoptive parents, and her deductions frightened Bai Qiuhe into confessing. Jiang Cheng then revealed that Bai Qiuhe’s birth parents had sold her, leaving her to face the consequences of her crimes.

• Captain Liu asked Ouyang Jing to help bluff Bai Qiuhe into talking, and Ouyang Jing identified the murder weapon and its likely location.
• Captain Liu contacted Jiang Cheng, and they arranged a joint interrogation of Bai Qiuhe by video call.
• Ouyang Jing reconstructed the murder from a few clues, and Bai Qiuhe confessed within minutes, including details of her later plans.
• Jiang Cheng told Bai Qiuhe that her birth parents had sold her and her younger sisters to obtain a son, while her adoptive parents had raised her as their own.
• Bai Qiuhe panicked and denied Jiang Cheng’s account, while he condemned her for murdering her adoptive parents and vowed that the police would uphold justice.

Jiang Cheng arrested Bai Qiuhe after exposing her crimes, and the livestream audience celebrated her capture. Xu Zizhen and Xi Zining reaffirmed their commitment to each other, then made an enormous breakfast that brought the group together the next morning.

• Jiang Cheng brought Bai Qiuhe out in handcuffs and announced that the evidence against her was conclusive, meaning she would go to prison and could no longer appear on the show.
• The livestream viewers celebrated Bai Qiuhe's arrest and praised Song Shiwei for helping expose criminals.
• Xu Zizhen admitted she felt foolish for believing Bai Qiuhe's fake mystic, and Xi Zining promised they would stay together and keep bickering as they grew old.
• Xu Zizhen and Xi Zining stayed up talking and cooking, then invited Song Shiwei to join them for the huge breakfast they had prepared.
• Song Shiwei and Jiang Zhuxin helped Xu Zizhen and Xi Zining finish the meal with the production crew, and the group's mood brightened after Bai Qiuhe was gone.

Song Shiwei’s inner gossip exposed the low prices and possible corruption surrounding the villagers’ melon sales. The village Party secretary and the buyer arrived with a story about excess supply, while the villagers remained unsure whom to believe.

• Song Shiwei and the others visited the melon fields, where her inner gossip revealed embarrassing secrets about several villagers.
• Song Shiwei’s thoughts claimed the buyer paid the farmers far less than city customers paid and planned to lower the price further.
• Song Shiwei’s thoughts accused Secretary Lin of profiting from the villagers, but the farmers defended him and recalled how he had found them a buyer.
• Secretary Lin arrived with the fat buyer, who claimed he could not buy more melons because the harvest was too large.
• The buyer offered to purchase all the villagers’ melons for Secretary Lin’s sake, while Song Shiwei suspected they were being manipulated into accepting a lower price.

Song Shiwei exposed Boss Zhang and Secretary Lin’s staged attempt to lower the price of the villagers’ melons, and the villagers realized the pair had been cheating them for years. Her inner voice also revealed that a previous secretary had planned to build Qingyuan Town’s watermelon brand.

• Song Shiwei predicted that Boss Zhang would criticize the melons and pressure the villagers to accept a lower price, and Boss Zhang did exactly that.
• The villagers defended their harvest as Boss Zhang claimed it was inferior and difficult to sell.
• Secretary Lin and Boss Zhang argued over the price, while Song Shiwei recognized their exchange as a double act and noticed Secretary Lin had injured his hand slapping a tree.
• Song Shiwei’s inner voice revealed that Boss Zhang and Secretary Lin had colluded to exploit the villagers for five years, and the villagers realized they had been cheated.
• Song Shiwei recalled that the previous secretary had wanted to build a Qingyuan Town watermelon brand and find dependable partners to sell the melons nationwide.

Song Shiwei exposed Secretary Lin’s corruption, exploitation of the villagers, and affair with Boss Zhang’s wife. The villagers realized they had been cheated for years and stopped trusting Secretary Lin’s offer to make up the price difference.

• Song Shiwei revealed that Secretary Lin had colluded with melon dealers to buy the villagers’ watermelons cheaply and had profited from kickbacks and resale.
• Song Shiwei exposed that Secretary Lin had refused to pay for his wife’s cancer treatment while buying expensive gifts for his mistress.
• Song Shiwei revealed that Secretary Lin planned to transfer assets through his wife before leaving with Boss Zhang’s wife, who was carrying Boss Zhang’s child.
• Secretary Lin offered to cover the price difference himself, but Song Shiwei warned that he planned to fleece the villagers another way.
• The villagers recalled years of selling popular watermelons for far below their market value and understood that Secretary Lin had been taking their profits.

Secretary Lin tried to persuade the villagers to accept a low price for their watermelons while secretly planning to recover his money through other charges. Song Shiwei exposed his offer of a bribe in front of the villagers, leaving him forced to claim the money was compensation for the variety show crew.

• Secretary Lin expected the villagers to praise him for offering to buy their watermelons at the old price, but they questioned why his offer ignored the reported shortage.
• Secretary Lin lied that the villagers' watermelons were inferior, then pulled Song Shiwei aside and offered her a hundred thousand yuan to cooperate with him.
• Song Shiwei announced the bribe to the villagers, and Jiang Zhuxin, Xu Zizhen, and Xi Zining joined in by asking what they would get for cooperating.
• Secretary Lin claimed he was personally offering a hundred thousand yuan to compensate the crew for promoting Qingyuan Town watermelons.
• Song Shiwei asked whether the hundred thousand yuan was for each person, while thinking about Secretary Lin's allegedly embezzled money and his hospitalized wife.

Song Shiwei and the others pressured Secretary Lin into paying them four hundred thousand yuan, then promoted Qingyuan Town’s melons on their livestream instead of helping him sell them cheaply. Song Shiwei’s thoughts suggested Lin had embezzled public funds, and the villagers were left wondering how to seek justice as he called the women aside.

• Xu Zizhen, Xi Zining, and Jiang Zhuxin agreed to demand money from Secretary Lin for promoting the village’s melons, and Song Shiwei’s group secured a hundred thousand yuan each.
• Secretary Lin transferred four hundred thousand yuan, and Song Shiwei’s thoughts revealed that he had allegedly stolen all the government funds intended for the villagers.
• Song Shiwei and Xi Zining enthusiastically promoted Qingyuan Town’s melons to the livestream while Jiang Zhuxin ate one, prompting viewers to speculate about Lin’s wealth.
• Angered that the women were praising the melons instead of helping him sell them cheaply, Secretary Lin called them outside to speak privately.
• The villagers feared they could not report Lin or defend their rights because they did not know how to seek help.

The villagers learned that Secretary Lin and Boss Zhang had used violence and murder to control Qingyuan Town’s melon trade, while Secretary Yu had secretly gathered evidence against them. Secretary Lin threatened the four guests and offered them money to pressure the villagers into selling melons cheaply, and Xi Zining secretly recorded him.

• The villagers considered asking Secretary Yu to return but feared he would refuse after their past treatment of him.
• Song Shiwei’s thoughts revealed that Secretary Lin and Boss Zhang had arranged attacks on Secretary Yu and melon buyers, and had concealed crimes to control the town’s melon sales.
• Song Shiwei’s thoughts also revealed that Secretary Yu had spent years collecting evidence against Secretary Lin and had arranged for it to be sent from his email account.
• Secretary Lin and Boss Zhang pulled Song Shiwei aside while she angrily thought about the crimes described in the Gossip Compendium.
• Secretary Lin warned the four guests and offered them four hundred thousand to persuade the villagers to sell melons cheaply; Xi Zining secretly turned on her phone recorder.
• Jiang Zhuxin challenged Secretary Lin after he threatened them for refusing to cooperate.

Song Shiwei’s group exposed Lin Yaohua’s scheme to buy villagers’ melons cheaply, and police arrived in Qingyuan Town with excavators. Song Shiwei’s thoughts revealed further crimes and evidence hidden on the back mountain, giving the officers new leads as they moved against Lin Yaohua.

• Lin Yaohua and Beast Zhang threatened Jiang Zhuxin and the others, then offered them commissions to help buy the villagers’ melons cheaply.
• The livestream viewers reacted to Lin Yaohua’s threats and suspected corruption, while one viewer connected the case to his father’s old beating.
• Police arrived in Qingyuan Town with excavators, alarming Lin Yaohua and Beast Zhang and delighting Song Shiwei.
• Song Shiwei’s thoughts told the officers to search the back mountain for evidence tied to a businessman and a student, and accused Lin Yaohua of murder and rape.
• The officers recalled that Yu Shuqiang had filed a real-name report against Lin Yaohua the previous day.

The police uncovered how Lin Yaohua had terrorized the victims’ families and located a lead to the bodies buried behind Qingyuan Town. As Captain Zhang arrived to search the mountain, Song Shiwei and Jiang Zhuxin publicly exposed Lin Yaohua’s attempts to swindle and threaten the villagers.

• The police found that both victims’ families had been paid one million and driven away after being beaten, threatened, and forced to sign letters of forgiveness.
• Officers discovered the father of one victim was about to drink paraquat and rescued him before he could take his life.
• A caller reported finding a skeletal hand on the mountain behind Qingyuan Town, and Yu Shuqiang recalled a voice saying that people had been buried there.
• Captain Zhang arrived with an excavator to search the mountain, while Lin Yaohua tried to act helpful and Beast Zhang attempted to speak with him privately.
• Song Shiwei grabbed Lin Yaohua and accused him of trying to swindle the villagers, and Jiang Zhuxin said Lin had threatened to beat them if they refused to cooperate.

Xi Zining’s recording and Song Shiwei’s thoughts helped Captain Zhang arrest Lin Yaohua, while an excavation uncovered the bodies linking him and Beast Zhang to the crimes. Yu Shuqiang revealed that he had spent five years gathering evidence against Lin, who ended the chapter accusing Beast Zhang of betraying him.

• Xi Zining played a recording of Lin Yaohua’s threats, and Captain Zhang arrested Lin on suspicion of multiple offenses.
• Beast Zhang tried to stop the police from going up the mountain, but Captain Zhang recognized him as Zhang Qinshou and had him arrested.
• After Song Shiwei predicted the bodies were close, officers found them at the excavation site, strengthening the case against Lin Yaohua and Beast Zhang.
• Yu Shuqiang confronted Lin Yaohua and revealed that he had spent five years gathering evidence to seek justice for the people Lin had harmed.
• Lin Yaohua threatened Yu Shuqiang, then accused Beast Zhang of giving him evidence to seize the money for himself.

Yu Shuqiang exposed Lin Yaohua and Beast Zhang’s affair and corruption, and both were arrested. He refused the townspeople’s plea to return as Qingyuan Town’s secretary, but Song Shiwei agreed to help sell their melons online as he left for Qingxi Town.

• Yu Shuqiang revealed that Lin Yaohua’s mistress was Beast Zhang’s wife and that her unborn child was not Lin Yaohua’s, then Captain Zhang took Lin Yaohua and Beast Zhang to the police station.
• The livestream viewers celebrated the arrests, while Qingyuan Town’s townspeople apologized to Yu Shuqiang and begged him to return as their secretary.
• Yu Shuqiang refused to return, saying he was happier with his work in Qingxi Town, and urged the townspeople to use their newfound attention to sell their melons.
• Song Shiwei offered to promote and sell Qingyuan Town’s melons online, and Yu Shuqiang left for Qingxi Town.

Song Shiwei and the others livestreamed to help Qingyuan Town sell melons, then left after helping the villagers sell about a third of them. At the airport, the four women reunited with friends and Jiang Xun welcomed Song Shiwei home as his wife.

• Song Shiwei and the others livestreamed for seven hours, but sold less than half of the villagers’ ten million jin of melons before ending the stream from exhaustion.
• The group continued livestreaming the next day, then left Qingyuan Town with local specialties as the villagers came out to thank and see them off.
• At Capital International Airport, Xu Zizhen and Xi Zining clasped hands, while Xu Zizhen offered Song Shiwei help with future investments.
• Jiang Xun met Song Shiwei at the airport, took her bags, and gave her red roses as he welcomed her home.
• Xu Zizhen mistook Jiang Xun for Song Shiwei’s suitor, and Jiang Xun clarified that Song Shiwei was his wife.

Jiang Xun welcomed Song Shiwei at the airport with flowers and publicly called her his wife, while Song Shiwei felt shy and secretly touched. After they fled a crowd of fans together, Song Shiwei admitted to herself that holding his hand made her happy and chose to keep doing it, though she was unsure whether she was falling for him.

• Jiang Xun greeted Song Shiwei with flowers and took her hand, and Xu Zizhen, Xi Zining, and Jiang Zhuxin realized the couple were still dating despite being married.
• Jiang Xun pulled Song Shiwei into his arms to avoid a runaway suitcase and proudly told its owner that Song Shiwei was his wife.
• A young woman recognized Song Shiwei as Sister Song Gua, drawing the attention of airport onlookers, so Jiang Xun suggested that they run away together.
• Jiang Xun and Song Shiwei escaped the airport hand in hand, and Song Shiwei laughed that they had been silly.
• Jiang Xun joked that he had considered eloping with Song Shiwei, and she replied that they could not elope but could hold hands.
• Song Shiwei reflected that holding Jiang Xun's hand made her happy and cautiously took it again.

Jiang Xun and Song Shiwei returned to the Jiang Family estate, where Jiang Xun was assigned to attend Hongwei Investment Company's listing reception. Song Shiwei's gossip revealed that the company's chairman planned to discard his longtime girlfriend for his returning white moonlight, who was actually a ladyboy.

• Jiang Xun paid Jiang Zhuxin a hundred thousand yuan to bring their luggage home, and she eagerly accepted the job.
• Jiang Zhuxin fawned over Song Shiwei when the couple returned to the Jiang Family estate, while Mother Jiang warmly welcomed Song Shiwei and invited her out the next day.
• Father Jiang told Jiang Xun to attend Hongwei Investment Company's listing reception because he had to accompany Mother Jiang.
• Song Shiwei's gossip revealed that Hongwei's chairman planned to announce his engagement to his returning white moonlight at the listing press conference, abandoning the girlfriend who had supported him.
• Song Shiwei revealed that the chairman's white moonlight was a ladyboy, leaving Jiang Xun and Father Jiang stunned.

Song Shiwei agreed to attend Hongwei Investment Company's listing press conference with Jiang Xun after he promised she could avoid socializing, and the two arrived to a crowd eager for gossip. Song Yurou saw them and, consumed by resentment over Song Shiwei’s success and her own downfall, prepared to carry out her plan.

• Jiang Xun invited Song Shiwei to attend Hongwei Investment Company's listing press conference with him, and she accepted after he assured her she could sit comfortably without socializing.
• Jiang Zhuxin messaged Yun Xi and Jiang Lanxin about the gossip, and they decided to attend as well.
• Song Shiwei and Jiang Xun arrived at the press conference together, drawing the attention of the crowd and the gossip-hungry Jiang women.
• Song Yurou and Chen Cheng saw Song Shiwei arrive and were pleased that their plan could proceed.
• Song Yurou recalled how her schemes had instead boosted Song Shiwei’s popularity, while her own career and reputation had collapsed, and she wished Song Shiwei dead.