Recaps

Su Qiao and Fu Jingyao joked about their closeness as she teased him for acting like a child, while Fu Jingyao reflected on how his feelings for her had changed over time. Their conversation revealed their shared past to the livestream audience, who sympathized with Su Qiao and condemned Xia Yao.

• Su Qiao told Fu Jingyao that she cared for him like family and teased him for pouting and expecting her to comfort him.
• Fu Jingyao refused to call Su Qiao Big Sis and chose to call her Qiaoqiao instead.
• Fu Jingyao reflected that he had once wanted to rely on Su Qiao as a sibling but later wanted to protect her for the rest of his life.
• The photography crew and livestream viewers reacted to learning that Su Qiao and Fu Jingyao had grown up together and been separated for ten years.
• Livestream viewers expressed sympathy for Su Qiao and criticized Xia Yao for having schemed from a young age.

Su Qiao confronted Xia Yao over her schemes and warned her and Fu Heng not to harm Fu Jingyao. Fu Heng watched Su Qiao with a trace of contemplation but still considered her no threat.

• Fu Jingyao angrily accused Xia Yao of using him for protection and resources, and said she had fooled his older brother.
• Xia Yao pleaded with Fu Jingyao to acknowledge what she had endured, but Su Qiao stood up and criticized her for trying to climb higher by using others.
• Su Qiao told Xia Yao that Fu Jingyao had his own feelings and was not someone to fight over, and said Xia Yao and Fu Heng could do as they wished.
• Su Qiao warned Xia Yao and Fu Heng that their actions would eventually be exposed and that she would not let them hurt Fu Jingyao.
• Fu Heng studied Su Qiao briefly but dismissed her as no serious threat.

Fu Heng reconsidered his feelings for Xia Yao after recognizing how calculatingly she had used him, while Su Qiao and Fu Jingyao grew closer. The chapter ended with Fu Jingyao promising not to let his older brother succeed, as livestream viewers celebrated the couple and worried that trouble remained ahead.

• Fu Heng realized Xia Yao had treated him as a backup while pursuing Fu Jingyao, and he became disillusioned with her.
• Su Qiao dismissed Fu Heng and Xia Yao, then told Fu Jingyao someone had stolen information without his knowledge.
• Fu Jingyao understood what had happened but focused on being with Su Qiao, who warned him to watch his older brother.
• Fu Jingyao clung affectionately to Su Qiao, and she let him know he could pinch himself to prove the moment was real.
• Livestream viewers praised Fu Jingyao and Su Qiao as a couple, though one viewer sensed things would not go smoothly.

Fu Jingyao happily spent the day with Su Qiao while 444 helped the police uncover Xia Yao’s connection to an obscene video case. The police returned to the village and confronted Xia Yao with evidence linking her to both the video and the poisonous mushrooms, then prepared to take her in when she refused to cooperate.

• Fu Jingyao cooked, chopped firewood, and watered the vegetables while wearing a blissful expression and stealing sweet glances at Su Qiao.
• 444 told Su Qiao that he had led the police’s technical staff to Xia Yao and uncovered her call to the woman who impersonated Su Qiao.
• Su Qiao told 444 to finish the investigation quickly because she was tired of playing with Xia Yao.
• The police returned to Small Mountain Village and ordered Xia Yao to assist in an investigation into the online distribution of obscene videos.
• The middle-aged policewoman told Xia Yao that two children had identified her as the person who gave them poisonous mushrooms at the Willow Tree Village banquet.
• Xia Yao denied the accusations and demanded a lawyer, so the policewoman said they had complete witness and physical evidence and would use force if necessary.

Xia Yao was arrested after her role in the village poisoning plot was exposed, while Fu Heng refused to help her. Su Qiao and Fu Jingyao returned together as the villagers and livestream viewers reacted to Xia Yao’s actions.

• The officers took Xia Yao away, and she begged Fu Heng to save her, but he stayed silent as he faced the evidence against her.
• Su Qiao and Fu Jingyao discussed Xia Yao’s cruelty and walked back together, with Fu Jingyao reassuring Su Qiao and listing how he had improved.
• The Old Village Chief confronted Director Lu as villagers learned Xia Yao had planted poisonous mushrooms to target Su Qiao.
• Villagers and livestream viewers condemned Xia Yao after realizing she had endangered the entire village and had harmed Su Qiao for years.

After Fu Jingyao left Small Mountain Village, Su Qiao finished modifying a robot and flew to Northern Capital City to join him. She learned that he had been called away from the airport to an urgent press conference.

• After the production crew left, Fu Jingyao stayed at Su Qiao's place until company business forced him to return.
• Fu Jingyao asked Su Qiao to come back with him, and she promised to follow within three days after finishing her work.
• Su Qiao asked 444 to help program a human-sized Transformers into a household robot, then spent two more days completing the modifications.
• Su Qiao flew to Northern Capital City on the third morning, but Fu Jingyao was not at the airport to meet her.
• Two men sent by Fu Jingyao told Su Qiao that he had rushed to a press conference after something happened.

Su Qiao learned that Fu Heng had used materials Xia Yao stole to beat Fu Jingyao’s company to the launch of its household robot. She arrived at the press conference with a Transformers, while Fu Jingyao faced reporters accusing him of copying Fu Heng’s robot.

• Su Qiao suspected that Xia Yao had given Fu Heng the stolen robot materials to secure her release from prison.
• Su Qiao learned that Old Master Fu’s sudden illness had left Fu Jingyao without his protection and suspected Fu Heng was responsible.
• Su Qiao ordered Little Four to send the directors evidence that Fu Heng had embezzled company funds.
• Su Qiao arrived at the press conference with a Transformers and told her men to unload it carefully.
• Reporters confronted Fu Jingyao, asking why his robot matched Fu Heng’s in appearance, functions, and structure.

Su Qiao arrived at Fu Jingyao’s press conference and defended him against reporters accusing him of stealing company research. She activated a Transformers robot to help him, and its teasing left Fu Jingyao with advice on how to appease her.

• Reporters questioned Fu Jingyao about allegedly plagiarizing research, framing his brother, and faking his credentials.
• Su Qiao entered the press hall and warned the reporters they could face charges for defamation and false accusations.
• Su Qiao activated the Transformers robot Daqiang and ordered it to help Fu Jingyao organize the items onstage.
• Daqiang straightened Fu Jingyao’s tie while teasing him about marrying Su Qiao and advising him to buy her roses and food.
• Fu Jingyao nodded as Daqiang told him how to appease Su Qiao whenever she got angry.

Su Qiao demonstrated that her company’s second-generation intelligent household robot was a complete, customizable product, unlike the half-finished model Fu Heng’s side had copied. After 444’s unexpected appearance stunned the press conference crowd, she explained the robot’s functions and options, leaving the audience to see who truly led the industry.

• 444 teased Fu Jingyao while clearing the display area, and Fu Jingyao asked Su Qiao if 444’s claim about her preferences was true.
• Su Qiao ordered Little Four to stop showing off and make 444 charge, and 444 plugged himself into an outlet.
• Su Qiao told the stunned crowd that the second-generation robot could handle household tasks, answer questions, and adjust its voice and personality.
• Su Qiao explained that the robot on display was the true intelligent household model, while the earlier one was only a discarded half-finished product.
• Su Qiao said owners could customize the robot’s appearance to their preferences.

Su Qiao saved Old Master Fu from Fu Heng’s poisoning and took him with Fu Jingyao to Small Mountain Village, while Fu Heng lost his position and was expelled from the Fu Family. Su Qiao and Fu Jingyao later lived happily together, and their adopted sons buried their mixed ashes beside the wooden house where they had reunited.

• Su Qiao ended the press conference and took Fu Jingyao to the hospital, explaining that Old Master Fu’s collapse was unlikely to be an accident.
• Su Qiao identified a plant-based neurotoxin in Old Master Fu and treated him with acupuncture and an antidote.
• Su Qiao and Fu Jingyao took Old Master Fu to Small Mountain Village, where Fu Jingyao said the Fu Family was not safe.
• Fu Heng faced scrutiny over his robots and misappropriated funds, was forced out of office, and lost the Fu Group’s lead in the technology industry.
• After waking, Old Master Fu removed Fu Heng from the family and entrusted the family’s assets to Fu Jingyao, then moved into Su Qiao’s wooden house.
• Su Qiao and Fu Jingyao lived happily together; after their deaths, their adopted sons mixed their ashes and buried them beside the wooden house.

Su Qiao woke in an examination cell during an ancient Imperial Examination and learned she would be confined there for three days. Worried that the Great Demon King might have taken wives and concubines while she was away, she ordered 444 to find him, but he was nowhere nearby.

• Su Qiao asked 444 whether she had been kidnapped, and he explained that she was taking the Locked Hall Examination.
• Su Qiao realized she was in an examination cell and recoiled at the thought of using the latrine and earning a mark on her papers.
• Su Qiao ignored the examination and demanded that 444 find the Great Demon King, fearing he might already have wives and concubines.
• 444 searched within three hundred meters but found no familiar soul, then asked whether Su Qiao would castrate the Great Demon King if he had taken other women.
• Su Qiao said she might leave him and wander the world with 444, sampling food and admiring handsome men.

Su Qiao learned that her twin younger sister had hypnotized her into believing she was a man, while 444 had strengthened her body and she discovered she could cultivate quickly. As she sorted through her memories, she learned she had been abandoned as an infant and raised at a remote country estate.

• Su Qiao asked 444 whether she had become a man, and 444 explained that her twin younger sister had hypnotized her.
• Su Qiao tested her cultivation and found that she progressed exceptionally quickly after 444 used an Intermediate Enhancement Potion on her.
• Su Qiao recalled that she and Su Jingya were born as twins, but the Marquis and his wife hid her away because twins were considered taboo and she was physically weak.
• Su Qiao learned that the estate’s servants neglected her and that a kind-hearted wet nurse had kept her alive.

Su Qiao learned how she had been hypnotized into posing as the Marquis's frail son and entered for the Locked Hall Examination with questions bought by Su Jingya. She also discovered Prince Jin had mistaken Su Jingya for her after returning to the capital, leaving her abandoned again.

• Su Qiao recalled that Su Jingya had arranged for her estate to be burned, then hypnotized her into believing she was the Marquis's son.
• The hypnotized Marquis entered Su Qiao for the Locked Hall Examination, and Su Jingya urged him to buy the examination questions.
• Su Qiao realized that the cheating could expose the already endangered Marquis's Residence to the emperor's punishment.
• Su Qiao learned that Prince Jin had vouched for the Marquis's Residence, but had mistaken Su Jingya for her and grown close to her.

Su Qiao dismissed Su Jingya’s medical and hypnotic abilities and decided to stay inconspicuous rather than help the Marquis’s residence. She used the System Store to disguise her appearance, leaving her ready to avoid drawing attention during the selection.

• Su Qiao learned that Su Jingya had monitored her and hypnotized the Old Wet Nurse and maids to uncover details about their relationship.
• Su Qiao resolved to appear useless and hand in a blank paper because the Marquis’s residence was under threat from The King.
• Su Qiao reflected on how the Marquis’s residence had neglected her while she grew up at a southern estate.
• Su Qiao had Little Four buy a chest binder and smudge-proof cosmetics, then altered her brows, eyes, forehead, and nose to change her appearance.

Su Qiao disguised herself so thoroughly that she no longer resembled Su Jingya, then spent the three-day examination cultivating instead of painting seriously. She left the examination hall in excellent condition, surprising Xiao Wu and Bi Qiu, who brought her to the carriage to rest.

• Su Qiao altered her face and covered her pierced ears until she looked only slightly like Su Jingya.
• Su Qiao spent three days cultivating in the examination hall, occasionally doodling, and the proctors eventually stopped paying attention to her.
• Su Qiao submitted several casual doodles, prompting people to laugh at her and making her famous before she returned to the residence.
• Su Qiao left the examination compound looking fresh and energetic while the other candidates emerged exhausted.
• Xiao Wu and Bi Qiu hurried Su Qiao into the carriage and offered her food and rest, believing she must be hiding her exhaustion.

Su Qiao traveled through Longhua Kingdom’s capital while explaining why she intended to remain a man, despite the risks of Su Jingya and Prince Jin discovering her identity. The chapter ended with her sending Bi Qiu to buy every ingredient on a prescription.

• Su Qiao told 444 that she did not plan to restore her female body because living as a man was safer and more convenient.
• 444 warned that Su Jingya and Prince Jin already knew or might discover Su Qiao’s secret, but Su Qiao said she had a way to handle it.
• Su Qiao asked 444 to focus on repairing its database and researching defenses against whoever had attacked it.
• Su Qiao stopped the carriage and ordered Bi Qiu to buy all the medicinal ingredients listed on her prescription.

Su Qiao rode through the street while Xiao Wu wondered at his changed demeanor, unaware that Long Jingyuan and Prince Jin had noticed him from a teahouse. The chapter ended with Long Jingyuan learning that the striking young man was Su Yuan’s son, recently returned from the south.

• Xiao Wu drove Su Qiao’s carriage to an empty patch of roadside and studied his unexpectedly confident manner.
• Su Qiao distrusted Xiao Wu because Su Jingya controlled Su Marquis Manor and Xiao Wu might have been hypnotized.
• Long Jingyuan watched Su Qiao from a teahouse window, and Prince Jin joined him and admired the young man’s appearance.
• Prince Jin’s servant identified Su Qiao as the Young Master of Su Marquis Manor, and Long Jingyuan reacted coldly to learning Su Yuan had a son.
• Prince Jin explained that Su Qiao had recently returned after being sent south as a sickly child.

Long Jingyuan and Prince Jin discussed Su Qiao and the Second Miss of the Marquis's Residence while watching Su Qiao's carriage from a teahouse. The chapter ended with Su Qiao sensing their gazes and noticing blurry figures at the window.

• Prince Jin remarked that Su Qiao was strikingly handsome, and Long Jingyuan agreed that he looked weak.
• Prince Jin asked Long Jingyuan to spare Su Yuan, then admitted he was interested in the Second Miss of the Marquis's Residence.
• Long Jingyuan said he would leave the Second Miss for Prince Jin if he completed his assigned task.
• Prince Jin explained that the Second Miss had rescued and cared for him after he was injured, and Long Jingyuan said he would consider sparing Su Yuan.
• Prince Jin urged Long Jingyuan to take more women during the selection, but Long Jingyuan cut him off when he mentioned heirs.
• Su Qiao sensed two gazes from the teahouse and glanced toward blurry figures by the second-floor window.

Su Qiao returned to the Marquis's residence after buying medicine, while Prince Jin and Long Jingyuan discussed their impressions of her. She found Marquis Su furious over her failed imperial examination and confronted Su Jingya about meeting Prince Jin before the exam.

• Su Qiao left the teahouse, and Prince Jin regretted that she had gone while Long Jingyuan praised her and told Prince Jin to focus on the imperial examination.
• Su Qiao arrived at the Marquis's residence, where Marquis Su berated her for failing the examination and threatened to send her back to the southern estate.
• Su Jingya defended Su Qiao as uneducated and urged her to try again in three years, but Marquis Su insisted the current opportunity was crucial to the residence's future.
• Su Qiao calmly told Marquis Su there had been nothing she could do, then asked Su Jingya whether she had met Prince Jin at Dexian Teahouse before the examination.

Su Qiao warned Marquis Su that the Emperor could destroy the Marquis's Residence after discovering the leaked examination papers, and she confronted Su Jingya about her connection to Prince Jin. The family remained in danger, while Su Qiao left Su Jingya to consider how little power she would have without her maternal family.

• Su Qiao told Marquis Su that she and her maid had seen Su Jingya meet Prince Jin.
• Su Qiao revealed that she had overheard Prince Jin say the examination papers had been leaked and that the Emperor planned a thorough investigation.
• Su Jingya realized Su Qiao had changed and suspected that someone else had replaced her.
• Su Qiao warned Marquis Su that the Emperor might confiscate the estate and wipe out the family, leaving him frightened and unsure what to do.
• Su Qiao told Su Jingya that without the Marquis's Residence supporting her, she would have little standing even if she entered Prince Jin's residence.

Su Qiao challenged Su Jingya’s explanation for concealing the leaked examination questions and predicted that the capital would be thrown into turmoil within three days. Afterward, Su Jingya noticed that Su Qiao’s appearance and manner had changed and wondered if the person in the body had been a man in a past life.

• Su Qiao argued that Prince Jin’s favor would not last and that Su Jingya could not rely on being more beautiful than the women in his inner court.
• Marquis Su questioned Su Jingya about why she had not warned the family about the leaked examination questions, and she claimed Prince Jin had never told her.
• Marquis Su suspected Su Qiao might have misheard, but Su Qiao insisted the capital would be thrown into turmoil within three days.
• Su Qiao left to rest, and Marquis Su considered that his son’s actions might have saved the family from execution.
• Su Jingya followed Su Qiao to Clear Wind Pavilion and remarked that they did not look much alike, prompting her to suspect the person in his body had been a man in a past life.

Su Qiao secretly hypnotized Su Jingya into believing she was her identical twin elder brother, then prepared medicines while staying in the manor. When the Emperor uncovered leaked examination questions, Su Manor avoided punishment, leaving Marquis Su pleased and Su Jingya troubled; she wondered whether someone’s return at this moment was good or bad.

• Su Qiao pretended to be hypnotized by Su Jingya, then hypnotized her and made her believe Su Qiao was her identical twin elder brother.
• Su Qiao hypnotized her attendants Xiao Wu and Xiao He, secluded herself in Clear Wind Pavilion, and developed medicinal powders and a simple distiller.
• The Emperor discovered that the Locked Hall Examination questions had leaked, imprisoned implicated officials, and arrested examinees who had cheated.
• Su Manor escaped the scandal, and Marquis Su praised Su Qiao while Su Jingya grew frustrated without understanding why.
• Su Jingya asked Xiao Chun whether someone’s return at that time was good or bad.

Su Qiao cultivated while the capital dealt with an Imperial Examination scandal, and the Palace Examination finally took place. At the palace, Grand Tutor Xie asked Long Jingyuan for Su Qiao’s doodled examination paper, prompting the Emperor to recognize Su Qiao as the youth he had previously seen.

• Su Jingya dismissed Xiao Chun after expressing displeasure about Su Qiao’s return.
• Su Qiao continued cultivating and researching medicines while the capital settled the examination scandal, reaching the fifth level.
• The Emperor held the delayed Palace Examination at the Hall of Preserving Harmony, where ministers mocked Su Yuan and Su Qiao.
• Grand Tutor Xie asked Long Jingyuan to give him Su Qiao’s doodled examination paper.
• Eunuch Quan reminded Long Jingyuan that Su Qiao was the Young Master who had recently returned to Su Manor, and the Emperor recognized him.

Grand Tutor Xie showed the court five paintings Su Qiao had made during the imperial examination, arguing that they were thoughtful answers rather than idle doodles. As he explained the paintings, Long Jingyuan felt an unexplained familiarity with one landscape, while the first revealed Su Qiao’s precise knowledge of the constellations.

• Eunuch Quan told Long Jingyuan that Su Qiao had slept or doodled instead of answering questions during the Locked Hall Examination.
• Grand Tutor Xie defended Su Qiao and laid out the five paintings he had taken from the examination papers.
• Long Jingyuan studied the landscape painting and felt that its wooden house and courtyard seemed strangely familiar.
• Grand Tutor Xie dismissed Prime Minister Chu’s suggestion that he knew Su Qiao and explained that he had first seen the paintings while inspecting examination papers.
• Grand Tutor Xie described Su Qiao’s first painting as an accurate chart of the Twenty-Eight Mansions and the Four Celestial Spirits.

Grand Tutor Xie interpreted Su Qiao’s paintings for Long Jingyuan, praising their ideas about agriculture, popular support, ships, and mountain defenses. Long Jingyuan grew increasingly impressed with Su Qiao as the discussion turned to weapons that could fire multiple arrows.

• Grand Tutor Xie explained that a painting of farmers and children showed how winning the people's hearts could bring Longhua peace and prosperity, and Long Jingyuan approved.
• Grand Tutor Xie pointed out a water-lifting device in the painting and said it could improve crop yields and address Longhua’s food shortage.
• Grand Tutor Xie praised a painting of ships and connected it to the saying that water could carry a boat or overturn it, earning Long Jingyuan’s agreement.
• Grand Tutor Xie described the mountain-spanning walls, signal towers, and a device he believed was for observing distant enemies.
• Grand Tutor Xie showed Long Jingyuan crossbows that could fire as many as ten arrows at once, while noting that war among the Four Kingdoms was likely in the future.