Recaps

Tao Qiu’s three cubs transformed, learned to hunt, and grew closer to Black Rabbit as the family prepared for winter. While Tao Qiu and Lou Yu faced a long separation, Lou Yu oversaw a dangerous awakening experiment that left only one uncertain survivor.

• Second Cub and Third Cub celebrated their birthdays, and Second Cub began transforming into human form after dreaming that Tao Qiu was in danger.
• Third Cub endured a painful transformation into a winged human baby, then woke and learned to switch between human and bird form.
• Tao Qiu traded crops with the Fox Clan and grew closer to Lou Yu, while Black Rabbit sought a place in the family and eventually began caring for the cubs.
• Tao Qiu revealed his and the cubs’ human forms to Black Rabbit, who was welcomed as Uncle Black Rabbit and helped train the cubs to hunt.
• The cubs killed their first prey and defended the valley from three crop thieves, after which Tao Qiu frightened nearby monsters and prepared the valley for winter.
• Tao Qiu and the cubs spent winter together while Lou Yu and Lou Quan received the awakening reagent and began secret experiments with sixty candidates.
• Lou Yu mourned the early deaths of experiment participants, and after nearly two months only one of the fifty-three awakeners remained alive, with their condition uncertain.

Tao Qiu reunited with Lou Yu and revealed their three children, while Lou Yu used Tao Qiu’s crops to help stabilize Zhao Tao’s ability amid Yong'an Base’s worsening shortages. As winter arrived, Tao Qiu and the neighboring mutated monsters fought a giant spider, leaving Tao Qiu wounded and recovering beside his cubs.

• Lou Yu traded blood and training notes for weapons during Yong'an Base’s monster crisis and survived a severe abdominal wound while rescuing a soldier.
• Tao Qiu reunited with Lou Yu after his long absence and gave him tomatoes to help Zhao Tao stabilize his ability.
• Tao Qiu revealed Tao Mo, Tao Xue, and Tao Yuan to Lou Yu, who recognized them as their children and promised to share responsibility for raising them.
• Lou Yu sent clothes and toys to the cubs, and the cubs sent crops and handmade keepsakes back to him.
• Zhao Tao’s ability stabilized after Lou Yu supplied him with Tao Qiu’s fruit and encouraged him to train.
• Lou Quan faced grain shortages and the Central Base’s demand for Lou Yu, while Tao Qiu offered his crops as a bargaining chip to protect Lou Yu.
• Tao Qiu joined Green Python, Red Fox, Black Rabbit, and other mutated monsters against a giant white spider that trapped their allies and bit into Tao Qiu’s chest and abdomen.
• The spider exploded during the renewed attack, and Tao Qiu returned to the cave, reassured the crying cubs, and fell asleep with his wound reopened.

As Yong'an Base faced crop failure, unrest, and pressure from Central Base, Lou Yu and Tao Qiu reunited with their children and joined forces to secure food and protect their family. The arc left Tao Qiu and the children preparing to visit Yong'an Base while Lou Yu arranged a home for them and revealed his family to his teammates.

• Second Young Master Shen learned that Xiao Wang had destroyed the spider research and samples, while Tao Qiu healed through the winter and cared for the cubs.
• Lou Yu and Tao Qiu shared the spider remains and reassured each other about their family, while Lou Yu warned that food shortages and Central Base’s interest in him were weighing on him.
• Central Base operatives tried to investigate Lou Yu, but Lou Quan discovered his relationship with Tao Qiu and agreed to protect their shared secrets.
• The cubs learned that Lou Yu was their father and welcomed him, while Yong'an Base’s failed crops and a deadly protest threatened Lou Quan’s position.
• Lou Quan was taken to Central Base for questioning, and Lou Yu assumed authority at Yong'an Base until Lou Quan returned alive and warned him that the Lou Family might use his supposed partner as leverage.
• Lou Yu asked Tao Qiu to help save Yong'an Base’s harvest, and Tao Qiu agreed to grow grain in exchange for the cubs being able to visit safely.
• Tao Qiu demonstrated his rapid plant-growing ability, and Lou Yu showed Lou Quan the family and fruit, and Lou Quan promised to root out spies in return for food and stable abilities.
• Lou Yu exposed Lin Wang’s false claim that he was Lou Yu’s former partner, while Tao Qiu wrote Lou Yu letters and accelerated plans for their family to live together.
• Lou Quan and Lou Yu purged rival factions and arranged outside identities for Tao Qiu and the children, while Lou Yu bought them a house and told his teammates about his family.

Tao Qiu and Lou Yu brought the cubs from the valley to Yong'an Base, where they made a home together and arranged for Tao Qiu to grow crops for the residents. The arc left Tao Qiu cultivating thriving cabbage seedlings with the cubs and winning over the planting-area workers.

• Lou Yu reunited with Tao Qiu and the cubs in the valley, and they spent the week together before visiting Fox Mountain, where Tao Qiu revealed his human form and family to Red Fox.
• Tao Qiu asked Red Fox to help protect his territory, then welcomed Lou Yu’s teammates to the valley, where they met the cubs, harvested wheat, and praised Tao Qiu’s food.
• Tao Qiu told Lou Yu he planned to move to the base with the cubs, and the family joined the grain convoy after saying goodbye to their animal friends.
• Lou Quan welcomed Tao Qiu and the cubs to Yong'an Base, where they stayed with Lou Yu’s friends, toured the school and base, and drew attention from residents and gossipers.
• Tao Qiu and Lou Yu attended Lou Quan’s banquet, shared crop gifts, and agreed that Tao Qiu would provide seeds and grow a limited batch of produce for the base.
• Lou Yu and Tao Qiu moved the cubs into their new home, and the family began preparing the yard while Lou Yu openly called the cubs his biological children.
• Tao Qiu visited the planting area with Lou Yu and the cubs, gave Lou Quan seeds, and used his ability to grow healthy cabbage seedlings as staff praised the benefits of his crops.
• Tao Qiu directed the planting-area workers to transplant the crowded seedlings and sow more, while the cubs helped and became popular with the staff.