Recaps

Su Qiao rejected a man who tried to trade a sweet potato for a relationship, and Zhao Jingting chased him off with a woodcutter’s knife. After Su Qiao stopped Zhao Jingting, he accused her of seducing other men.

• A man offered Su Qiao a sweet potato and claimed she and Zhao Jingting were not truly married, then proposed that she become his wife.
• Su Qiao rejected the man and threatened him with her shoulder pole after he dismissed his existing wife and child as no obstacle.
• Zhao Jingting suddenly attacked the man with a woodcutter’s knife and chased him away.
• Su Qiao pulled Zhao Jingting back, and he accused her of seducing other men while she failed to understand what he meant.

Zhao Jingting continued acting as though Su Qiao had betrayed him, and Su Qiao waited for him to return. At midnight, he brought a man into her room and accused her of liking him, but Su Qiao denied it.

• Zhao Jingting accused Su Qiao of betraying him and called her the Demonic Sect's Left Protector, Poisonous Lady, before running off.
• Su Qiao continued with her day and checked on Zhao Jingting, who repeatedly avoided her.
• Zhao Jingting jumped through Su Qiao's window at midnight carrying the lecherous man who had given her sweet potatoes.
• Zhao Jingting accused the man of sneaking into Su Qiao's room to assault her and insisted that she liked him.
• Su Qiao recognized the man and denied liking him, but Zhao Jingting accused her of refusing to admit the truth.

Su Qiao killed the unconscious man to prove she had no feelings for him, while Zhao Jingting accepted the deed as something he had always handled for her. As he buried the body, Su Qiao realized her interactions with other men could trigger his role changes, and he showed signs of remembering what he did in other roles.

• Su Qiao sprinkled poison on the unconscious man, killing him, and told Zhao Jingting she was proving she did not like him.
• Zhao Jingting said he could neither fear nor hate Su Qiao, then went to get a sack to dispose of the body.
• Su Qiao questioned how she had gained the reputation of a vicious, unfaithful woman, and the system explained that the Great Demon King had become jealous when he saw her chatting with another man.
• Zhao Jingting put the body in a sack and carried it to the woods, following the route they had taken to dispose of Chu San.
• Zhao Jingting began digging a pit and told Su Qiao to stand back so she would not dirty her clothes, saying he had always handled such things for her.

Su Qiao planned to treat Zhao Jingting’s damaged nerves while keeping Su Weixue from catching her doing anything suspicious. Su Weixue brought Li Bingyi and others to the forest, accused Su Qiao and Zhao Jingting of burying people there, and ordered the earth dug up.

• Su Qiao considered sealing away Zhao Jingting’s jumbled memories and finding herbs to repair his damaged nerves.
• Su Qiao learned Su Weixue had been watching them, while Zhao Jingting begged her not to flirt with other men and accused Uncle Ya of leering at her.
• Su Qiao and Zhao Jingting returned home near dawn after digging in the forest.
• Su Weixue led Li Bingyi and others to two freshly turned patches of earth and claimed Su Qiao and Zhao Jingting had buried people there, including Chu San.
• Li Bingyi ordered the group to dig while Su Qiao waited calmly by a tree.

Su Qiao and Zhao Jingting stayed calm as the group dug up the pits Su Weixue claimed held bodies. Both pits were empty, leaving Su Weixue’s accusation in doubt and the others confused.

• Zhao Jingting gave Su Qiao a damp cloth, then returned with wild jujubes he had gathered.
• Su Qiao ate the jujubes while the group dug up one pit, but found no corpse inside.
• Su Weixue insisted she had seen people buried there, while others questioned whether she had dreamed it.
• Li Bingyi considered whether Su Qiao and Zhao Jingting might have moved the bodies after Su Weixue left.
• The group opened the other pit and found only an old pair of women’s trousers.

Su Qiao explained away the empty pit as her husband digging for fun, turning the group against Su Weixue’s accusations. Su Weixue insisted she had seen a corpse buried there, but the others began to suspect grief had made her unstable.

• The men grumbled that the failed search had delayed their chance to find food and warm clothing.
• Su Weixue was baffled that the pit contained only a pair of women's pants, though she remembered seeing Chu San’s corpse buried there.
• Su Qiao claimed her husband had dug the pits for fun after waking up at night, and the group accepted her explanation.
• Su Qiao reminded Su Weixue that she had lost loved ones and urged her to live well, while others criticized her for accusing her cousin.
• The group speculated that Su Weixue had suffered a mental breakdown, and she angrily insisted she was sane and had seen a corpse buried in the pit.

Su Qiao helped convince everyone that Su Weixue had imagined the evidence, leaving Li Bingyi suspicious but unable to act. Back in their room, Zhao Jingting accused Su Qiao of staring at Li Bingyi and abandoning him for handsome men.

• Su Qiao admitted she had destroyed the evidence and taunted Su Weixue, who stormed off threatening to get even.
• Su Qiao's system, 444, revealed that she had made Bone-Dissolving Water from poisonous herbs, and the gathered people comforted Su Qiao while accepting Su Weixue's apparent breakdown.
• Li Bingyi remained doubtful but decided he had no proof against Su Qiao and Zhao Jingting, and quietly became wary of them.
• Su Qiao and Zhao Jingting returned to their room, where Zhao Jingting accused her of staring at Li Bingyi and abandoning him for a handsome man.

Su Qiao followed Zhao Jingting and Uncle Ya into the woods, where the two men returned to camp with a wild boar. After Zhao Jingting regained consciousness, Su Qiao found him with a dying old woman and asked what had happened.

• Zhao Jingting teased Su Qiao about being fierce with him, then ran into the woods to hunt while Uncle Ya followed.
• Su Qiao gathered medicinal herbs, wild vegetables, and firewood but did not meet Zhao Jingting or Uncle Ya in the woods.
• Zhao Jingting and Uncle Ya returned to camp with a small wild boar, lifting the spirits of the hungry people there.
• Su Qiao found Zhao Jingting in a thatched hut with a gravely ill old woman and asked what was wrong.
• Zhao Jingting told Su Qiao that the old woman was going to die.

An old woman begged Su Qiao to adopt her seven-year-old grandson, Qingyang, because she was dying and had no one else to care for him. Su Qiao hesitated but agreed to think about it, leaving the decision unresolved.

• Zhao Jingting explained that the old woman wanted them to adopt her grandson.
• The old woman told Su Qiao that Qingyang's parents and younger sister had died during the famine, leaving only the two of them.
• Su Qiao questioned whether entrusting Qingyang to someone else would be safer, given their own difficult situation.
• The old woman said others had rejected her and pleaded with Su Qiao to take Qingyang in.
• Su Qiao said she would think about it, and the old woman insisted that Qingyang was sensible, capable, and easy to care for.

Qingyang begged his dying grandmother not to leave him and tried to reassure her that he could find food and take care of her. She urged him to obey his siblings and live bravely after she was gone, leaving him clinging to her in fear.

• Qingyang rushed in with wild greens and pleaded with his grandmother not to die, promising to behave and find food.
• His grandmother told Qingyang to listen to his brothers and sisters, work more, eat less, and not make them angry.
• Qingyang recalled how drought, hunger, and displacement had taken his younger sister, grandfather, father, and mother, leaving his grandmother as his only close relative.
• Qingyang's grandmother comforted him and urged him to live on bravely, imagining him growing up and starting a family.
• Qingyang clung to his grandmother as she blinked faintly and a tear slipped from her eye.

Su Qiao agreed to take in Qingyang after his dying Wet Nurse begged her to help him. The old woman passed away peacefully, and Qingyang resolved to stay strong as Su Qiao comforted him.

• The old woman begged Su Qiao to take Qingyang in, and Su Qiao agreed after Zhao Jingting and Uncle Ya raised no objection.
• Su Qiao explained that Qingyang's Wet Nurse was suffering and asked whether he could bear to keep her alive in pain.
• Qingyang clung to his Wet Nurse, who reassured him that she would watch over him before peacefully closing her eyes.
• Su Qiao told Qingyang that his Wet Nurse had died and comforted him as he promised to grow up strong and marry.
• Su Qiao offered Qingyang dates, and he hesitated before accepting them because his Wet Nurse had warned him not to waste food.

Su Qiao and Zhao Jingting took in Qingyang after his grandmother died, arranging for Uncle Ya to care for him while they worked. Qingyang became interested in martial arts, and Uncle Ya began training him.

• Su Qiao comforted hungry Qingyang and offered him dates, while Zhao Jingting objected to her keeping an arm around the seven-year-old boy.
• Zhao Jingting arranged for Uncle Ya to look after Qingyang, and Su Qiao promised to spend time with him during meals and whenever she was free.
• Zhao Jingting and Uncle Ya buried Qingyang's grandmother, marked her grave, and brought Qingyang back to their thatched hut.
• Su Qiao took Qingyang into the woods the next morning to gather supplies and hunt, with Zhao Jingting and Uncle Ya accompanying them.
• After watching Uncle Ya demonstrate his martial arts, Qingyang became eager to learn, and Uncle Ya started training him the following morning.

Qingyang recovered some of his spirits as Su Qiao looked after him and Zhao Jingting stayed conscious. Zhao Jingting then claimed Su Qiao belonged to him because he had paid to bury her father, leaving her bewildered and worried he might punish Uncle Ya.

• Qingyang trained hard under Uncle Ya and gradually began smiling again after grieving his loved one.
• Su Qiao kept Zhao Jingting from drinking alcohol by feeding him her pills whenever he asked for one.
• Zhao Jingting pushed Su Qiao against a bamboo table and claimed she belonged to him because he had paid thirty taels to bury her father.
• Su Qiao denied selling herself or receiving a grand burial for her father, while 444 speculated that Zhao Jingting's behavior had been triggered by Grandma Deng's death.
• Zhao Jingting insisted he had ordered his people to bury Su Qiao's father properly and vowed to punish them for failing, worrying Su Qiao that he might target Uncle Ya.

Su Qiao tried to get away from Zhao Jingting and hurry into the woods for lunch, but he kept following and teasing her. She kicked him hard and warned him to stop making shameless remarks or she would beat him worse.

• Zhao Jingting grabbed Su Qiao's hand and offered to help her vent her anger, but she refused and headed toward the woods.
• Zhao Jingting followed Su Qiao and repeatedly teased her, while she told him she did not like him and ordered him to stop following her.
• Zhao Jingting continued provoking Su Qiao, so she kicked him in the calf and left him clutching his leg.
• Su Qiao warned Zhao Jingting that she would beat him badly if he kept making insinuations and shameless remarks.

Zhao Jingting suffered a sudden headache as the false plot he had created clashed with reality, and Su Qiao worried about the effects on his mind. After he appeared to recover, Su Qiao tested him with a bottle of liquor and kept it from him, leaving him focused on getting it back.

• Zhao Jingting offered to treat Su Qiao to food, but he suddenly clutched his head in pain.
• Su Qiao helped Zhao Jingting sit by a rock while 444 warned that his fabricated plot had conflicted with reality and he might soon wake up.
• Zhao Jingting tried to act like his former self again, but Su Qiao pointed out that he had already recovered and questioned his story about her father's grave.
• Su Qiao waved a bottle of liquor before Zhao Jingting, and when he reached for it, she refused to return it.

Zhao Jingting teased Su Qiao by pretending to flirt while distracting her long enough to steal the medicine bottle. After escaping to his room, he admitted to himself that he had nearly kissed her for real.

• Su Qiao teased Zhao Jingting for pretending to be asleep, and he accused her of deliberately provoking him.
• Zhao Jingting pulled Su Qiao into his arms and flirted with her, making her flustered as he leaned closer.
• Zhao Jingting seized the medicine bottle while Su Qiao was distracted, then ran off laughing.
• Su Qiao realized he had tricked her and shouted that she would take the bottle back.
• In his room, Zhao Jingting drank cold water and confessed to himself that he had nearly kissed Su Qiao.

Zhao Jingting struggled with his dependence on wine pills and agreed to take responsibility for Su Qiao, while Uncle Ya reluctantly agreed to help him get wine. Su Qiao returned empty-handed, and 444's cry startled her as she entered her room.

• Zhao Jingting took a wine pill despite Uncle Ya's attempts to dissuade him.
• Uncle Ya gestured that Zhao Jingting should marry Su Qiao, and Zhao Jingting agreed to take responsibility because he had ruined her reputation.
• Zhao Jingting begged Uncle Ya to get him wine, and Uncle Ya reluctantly agreed to help him slip away from camp.
• Su Qiao failed to catch Su Weixue or find food, then returned to her room.
• 444 cried out as Su Qiao entered, startling her.

Su Qiao discovered that Su Weixue had planted a listening device on Zhao Jingting and overheard their conversation about his identity. Worried that Li Bingyi would act on what Su Weixue told him, Su Qiao and Zhao Jingting prepared to leave the camp.

• 444 told Su Qiao that Su Weixue had secretly planted a listening device on Zhao Jingting.
• Su Qiao found Zhao Jingting by the riverside, removed the device from his collar, and threw it into the river.
• Su Qiao told Zhao Jingting that Su Weixue had overheard them and might reveal his identity to Li Bingyi.
• Zhao Jingting took Su Qiao by the hand and decided they should leave immediately.
• Zhao Jingting explained that he had learned to read storybooks while living in the mountains behind the Taoist Temple, and Su Qiao marveled at how many roles he could play.

Su Qiao and Zhao Jingting decided to stay for now, with Zhao Jingting insisting he would follow her wherever she went. Su Qiao warned him to keep quiet and act dazed, but their plans were interrupted when they ran into Uncle Ya.

• Zhao Jingting said he would leave or stay according to Su Qiao, and admitted he wanted to follow her because she was fun.
• Su Qiao told Zhao Jingting she could not leave yet and woke Little Qingyang, placing him in Zhao Jingting's arms.
• Su Qiao warned Zhao Jingting to keep quiet and avoid saying anything he should not.
• Zhao Jingting teased Su Qiao by calling her his wife because she wore his betrothal token, and she told him to act serious later.
• Su Qiao and Zhao Jingting left the hut with Little Qingyang and ran into Uncle Ya.

Su Qiao and Zhao Jingting prepared for an approaching group, then faced Su Weixue and Li Bingyi, who accused Zhao Jingting of being the Old Emperor’s twelfth son. Su Qiao challenged Su Weixue to explain how she knew his name.

• Uncle Ya returned after spotting a group heading toward the mountain, and Zhao Jingting explained what he had seen.
• Su Qiao told Zhao Jingting to stay quiet and said they would remain until spring before leaving the army.
• Su Weixue arrived with Li Bingyi and a hostile crowd, identified Zhao Jingting as the Old Emperor’s twelfth son, and Li Bingyi questioned him.
• Su Qiao denied Zhao Jingting was a prince, but Su Weixue claimed she had heard Su Qiao call him Zhao Jingting in her room half an hour earlier.
• Su Qiao calmly asked Su Weixue where and when she had heard the name.

Su Qiao challenged Su Weixue’s accusation by exposing contradictions in her story and her past engagement to the missing Young Master Liu. She then defended her husband, arguing that his odd behavior had caused no harm and that he worked diligently with her.

• Su Qiao pointed out that witnesses had seen Su Weixue working in the vegetable plots shortly before the alleged incident, and the witnesses confirmed it.
• Li Bingyi questioned Su Weixue, who could not explain the contradiction.
• Su Qiao accused Su Weixue of scheming against her and warned that her past engagement to Young Master Liu could create trouble for Li Bingyi if Liu were still alive.
• Li Bingyi denied having any relationship or private dealings with Su Weixue, drawing suspicious looks from the crowd.
• Su Weixue tried to redirect the argument toward Su Qiao’s husband, and Su Qiao defended him by noting that he worked hard and had harmed no one.

Su Qiao led Zhao Jingting and Uncle Ya away from Li Bingyi’s camp after accusing him of choosing the wrong side. She intended to stay nearby and take revenge, while Li Bingyi’s followers urged him to keep the group from leaving, and one of them caught up to ask Su Qiao to wait.

• Su Qiao accused Li Bingyi of harboring bad intentions and led Zhao Jingting and Uncle Ya out of the camp.
• Su Qiao told 444 that she still planned to avenge herself and Zhao Jingting, and that Li Bingyi needed to be eliminated before he gained power.
• Li Bingyi’s followers praised Su Qiao, Zhao Jingting, and Uncle Ya as valuable members of the Rebel Army and warned that they could reveal the camp’s location.
• Li Bingyi nodded to a subordinate, who hurried after Su Qiao and asked her to wait.
• Su Qiao refused, saying they were ordinary people who wanted peaceful lives and would leave because there was no place for them in the camp.

Li Bingyi apologized to Su Qiao and urged the group to unite, while Su Qiao blamed Su Weixue for making life harder for them. Su Qiao agreed to stay with the group on the condition that Li Bingyi hear ordinary people out fairly, though she still suspected his motives.

• Li Bingyi apologized to Su Qiao for bringing so many people to question her and said he wanted the group to unite against the court.
• The camp members agreed that they had resisted because the court had left them no way to live.
• Su Qiao pointed toward Su Weixue, prompting the crowd to look at her with displeasure as Su Weixue grew angry.
• Li Bingyi suggested Su Qiao and Su Weixue settle their conflict themselves and denied having any relationship with Su Weixue.
• Su Qiao agreed to stay with the group if Li Bingyi would hear ordinary people's explanations before making decisions.
• Li Bingyi denied having feelings for Su Weixue, while Su Qiao privately suspected he wanted to help her reclaim what belonged to her.

Su Qiao and Su Weixue confronted each other over their hidden abilities after Li Bingyi warned that the imperial court might send troops. Su Weixue suspected Su Qiao had changed and threatened to expose her food supply, while fearing Su Qiao could reveal her own secret.

• Li Bingyi told the camp that the imperial court might send troops, prompting the crowd to discuss the threat before dispersing.
• Su Weixue accused Su Qiao of having anticipated her visit to Li Bingyi and asked how she had found out about it.
• Su Qiao questioned how Su Weixue had overheard their conversation from far away, and Su Weixue took this as confirmation that Su Qiao was hiding something.
• Su Qiao pointed out that Su Weixue had concealed her own abilities, including producing food while remaining in the mountains.
• Su Weixue threatened to tell Li Bingyi about Su Qiao's food, but privately worried that exposing her own secret would leave her imprisoned, exploited, or killed.

Su Qiao extorted cooked beef and meat buns from Su Weixue by threatening to expose her secret food supply. In the days that followed, Su Qiao stayed wary of Su Weixue while growing closer to Zhao Jingting, whose childish behavior made her feel as though she were raising a son.

• Su Qiao warned Su Weixue that she could expose her food supply and put her at risk of being accused of spying.
• Su Weixue gave Su Qiao cooked beef and several meat buns, then angrily left.
• Su Qiao and Zhao Jingting returned to their room with Uncle Ya and Little Qingyang and ate the food.
• Su Weixue avoided Su Qiao's family, but Su Qiao remained cautious because of her dangerous past and stored venom.
• Zhao Jingting continued taking Su Qiao's pills without changing into another character, and the two grew closer over the next several days.