Recaps

Su Luoqian helped Lu Jingsi investigate Peilan’s murder, uncovering Lin Yonghong’s role and evidence linking Xu Jia to Zhong Qin’s abduction. Lin was sentenced to death, while Su Luoqian ended the arc drunk and leaning on Lu Jingsi.

• Lu Jingsi rescued Su Luoqian from Lin Yonghong’s villa after she was drugged, then learned she had entered the estate while investigating Peilan’s death.
• Su Luoqian returned to her family home, asserted her rank over Su Manrong and Kong Cuilian, and later offered to help Lu Jingsi investigate Peilan’s murder.
• Lu Jingsi brought Su Luoqian in disguise to Lin Yonghong’s estate, where they found Peilan’s sachet and suspected the bloodstains in a hidden chamber were connected to the murders.
• Su Luoqian befriended Qin Shuning over plum wine, and Lu Jingsi later kissed her before leaving after she told him she was on her period.
• Lu Jingsi arrested Lin Yonghong and pressured him in prison until he agreed to confess, while Su Luoqian attended Xu Yin’s coming-of-age banquet.
• Su Luoqian overheard Xu Jia admit that she had disguised Zhong Qin as a maid, helping create the opportunity for Lin Yonghong to abduct her.
• Su Luoqian’s actions led the guests to discover Xu Jia with her male cousin, and she briefed Lu Jingsi when he arrived with the Prison Administration.
• The emperor sentenced Lin Yonghong to beheading, and Lu Jingsi found Su Luoqian drunk at the waterside pavilion and caught her as she swayed.

Su Luoqian and Lu Jingsi’s marriage grew closer as they handled palace life, household intrigue, and a festival outing. The arc ended with them spending the night together on a pleasure boat after watching fireworks at Bright Moon Lake.

• Lu Jingsi and Su Luoqian spent the night together after sharing green plum wine, and Lu Jingsi later guided her brush as she inscribed a poem on the Painting of a Walking Horse.
• Su Luoqian and Lu Jingsi paid respects to Zhou Anyun and visited the palace, where the Empress urged the women to have children and looked into Consort Shu’s dealings with Zhou Jingmi and Pei Mu.
• Lu Jingsi revealed that he knew Su Luoqian had disguised herself to enter Lin Yonghong’s villa, while Su Luoqian arranged for Yinzhu to help uncover Nanny Liu’s scheme.
• Su Luoqian and Lu Jingsi caught Nanny Liu bringing a mustached man into the bedroom to frame Su Luoqian, and Su Luoqian sentenced Nanny Liu to fifty strokes and expulsion.
• At the palace banquet, the emperor allowed Zhou Jingmi to attend the Qixi Festival festivities, and Su Luoqian, Qin Shuning, and Zhou Jingmi traveled to Bright Moon Lake.
• Lu Jingsi took Su Luoqian onto his pleasure boat, then left to investigate Xu Bin’s murder after Chengying reported that Qi Wenxuan had killed him.
• Su Luoqian comforted Zhou Jingmi over Pei Mu’s impending return to the border, and Lu Jingsi later found the two women asleep together.
• After Su Luoqian mistook perfume on Lu Jingsi’s sleeve for evidence he had visited courtesans, he explained his murder investigation, and they watched fireworks together aboard the boat through the night.