Recaps

Su Qiao tried to show kindness to Qi Jinghe and Yue'er by giving them clothes, silver, pastries, and candy, but Qi Jinghe suspected she had an ulterior motive. The meal ended with Yue'er blushing after Su Qiao kissed his forehead.

• Old Man Liu gave Qi Jinghe the clothes and silver Su Qiao had bought, and Qi Jinghe accepted them while wondering what she intended.
• Su Qiao invited Yue'er to eat at the table and offered him candy, but Qi Jinghe assumed she was taking out her anger on the child and moved him to a chair beside himself.
• Su Qiao explained that she only wanted to give Yue'er candy, then placed the packet in front of him.
• Old Man Liu reminded Yue'er to thank his mother for her gifts, and Yue'er quietly thanked Su Qiao.
• Su Qiao kissed Yue'er on the forehead, leaving Qi Jinghe suspicious and Yue'er blushing with confusion.

Su Qiao warmly fed Little Yue'er and praised his father’s looks, leaving the man outside vexed and wondering whether she meant it. Little Yue'er accepted her kindness and decided to listen to her.

• Su Qiao served Little Yue'er rabbit meat and encouraged him to eat more.
• Su Qiao called the man handsome, prompting him to drop his chopsticks and storm outside.
• Little Yue'er told Su Qiao that people outside called his father ugly, and she defended him as handsome and promised to protect Yue'er.
• Old Man Liu backed up Su Qiao and added rabbit meat to Little Yue'er's bowl.
• Outside, the man touched his gaunt face and briefly wondered whether he really was handsome before dismissing Su Qiao's praise as deceit.

Su Qiao finished making Little Yue'er a bamboo cage, then returned to her room and found Qi Jinghe waiting there. He tried to persuade her to share a bed, leaving her wary and confused by his sudden change in behavior.

• Su Qiao wove a bamboo cage for Little Yue'er and put the two rabbits inside it.
• Little Yue'er thanked Su Qiao and carried the cage into the main room to find Grandpa.
• Su Qiao returned to her room and found Qi Jinghe standing beside the bed.
• Qi Jinghe approached Su Qiao and suggested that they share a bed because they were husband and wife.
• Su Qiao refused and tried to send Qi Jinghe back to his room, while he claimed she was looking down on him and said he was heartbroken.

Su Qiao avoided sharing a bed with Qi Jinghe and secretly bathed after he left. The next morning, she set out for the Dense Forest to find medicinal herbs and improve life for her family.

• Su Qiao made an excuse to keep Qi Jinghe from staying in her room, and he realized she was afraid to share a bed with him.
• Su Qiao waited until the household was asleep, then carried hot water to her room and bathed.
• Su Qiao told Old Man Liu she planned to enter the Dense Forest despite his warning about her mother's injury there.
• Su Qiao explained that she wanted to find Wild Ginseng, renovate the house, free Jing He from his daily stall work, and send Yue'er to a private school next year.

Su Qiao left for the mountains after promising to provide for Qi Jinghe and Yue'er, while Old Man Liu urged Qi Jinghe to trust her. Qi Jinghe remained suspicious of her sudden change, despite feeling a flicker of hope.

• Old Man Liu asked Su Qiao whether her promises were true, and she told him he would understand later.
• Su Qiao refused food, reminded Old Man Liu to take his medicine, and hurried toward the mountains.
• Old Man Liu told Qi Jinghe that Su Qiao had changed and repeated her plans to spare him the stall work and send Yue'er to school.
• Qi Jinghe questioned why Su Qiao had been cruel before and doubted that she had truly become a good person.

Qi Jinghe watched Little Yue'er grow excited about Su Qiao’s kindness and promises for his future, though he still struggled to trust her. Old Man Liu urged Qi Jinghe to let the past go and consider Little Yue'er’s welfare.

• Little Yue'er showed Qi Jinghe and Old Man Liu the rabbit cage Su Qiao had made and happily described her gifts and promises.
• Little Yue'er said Su Qiao planned to send him to school, teach him martial arts, and help Qi Jinghe open a storefront.
• Old Man Liu asked whether Little Yue'er resented his mother, and Little Yue'er said he liked the mother she was now.
• Old Man Liu told Qi Jinghe to let bygones be bygones and remember that Su Qiao’s kindness toward Little Yue'er was unusually generous.

Qi Jinghe struggled to forgive Da Qiao for how she had treated Yue'er, while Su Qiao searched the mountains for valuable herbs and returned with a wolf. Before she reached home, Jiang Qiuyan arrived with thugs to collect Da Qiao’s gambling debt, leaving the Qi family in danger.

• Qi Jinghe’s father urged him to be content and grateful to Da Qiao, but Qi Jinghe recalled her mistreatment of Yue'er and asked for time to think.
• Su Qiao headed into the mountains to search for Wild Ginseng and other rare medicinal herbs, planning to improve her family’s living conditions.
• After nearly two days in the Dense Forest, Su Qiao hurried home with a wolf over her shoulder and a Back Basket.
• Jiang Qiuyan and her thugs stormed the Qi family courtyard, demanding repayment of Da Qiao’s ten-tael debt to the gambling den.
• Qi Jinghe confronted Jiang Qiuyan while Old Man Liu explained that Da Qiao had gone hunting and asked for more time.

Jiang Qiuyan used Su Qiao’s signed debt agreement to seize five-and-a-half-year-old Qi Yue, while Qi Jinghe and Old Man Liu failed to stop her. The chapter ended with Qi Jinghe offering himself in his son’s place as the villagers watched without helping.

• Jiang Qiuyan dismissed Old Man Liu’s claim that Su Qiao had gone to the Dense Forest and ordered her people to seize Qi Yue.
• Qi Jinghe tried to protect his son, but Jiang Qiuyan’s people overwhelmed him and carried Qi Yue away.
• Jiang Qiuyan showed the villagers a paper bearing Su Qiao’s signature that said Qi Yue would settle the debt if the silver was not repaid on time.
• Old Man Liu fell after seeing the paper, while Qi Jinghe cursed Su Qiao and the villagers refused to intervene.
• Qi Jinghe offered to be sold instead of Qi Yue, who struggled and begged his father not to go.

Su Qiao returned to the Qi Family and found Jiang Qiuyan and her thugs hurting Qi Jinghe, Old Man Liu, and Qi Yue while demanding payment for a gambling debt. She rescued her family and beat Jiang Qiuyan and the thugs, then challenged Jiang Qiuyan's claim that she had run off without paying.

• Qi Jinghe tried to protect Qi Yue from Jiang Qiuyan, who threatened to sell the boy, while Old Man Liu was shoved down.
• Su Qiao heard Xiao Si's warning, rushed to the Qi Family, and attacked the thugs threatening Qi Jinghe and Qi Yue.
• Su Qiao broke the arm of the man holding Qi Yue, returned the child to Qi Jinghe, and crippled more than a dozen thugs.
• Su Qiao beat Jiang Qiuyan and accused her of bullying her family before the agreed repayment deadline.
• Jiang Qiuyan insisted she had come to collect Su Qiao's gambling debt, and Su Qiao demanded to know who had claimed she ran away.

Su Qiao challenged Jiang Qiuyan’s debt contract, demonstrated her literacy, and offered a hundred-year-old Wild Ginseng to repay what she owed. Jiang Qiuyan admitted she was in the wrong as the villagers noticed Su Qiao had returned from the Dense Forest with a wolf.

• Jiang Qiuyan showed Su Qiao the contract and insisted its fingerprint meant Su Qiao’s son could be taken to settle the debt.
• Su Qiao denied making the contract and wrote a poem on the courtyard gate to prove she could read and write.
• Jiang Qiuyan grew frightened as she recalled Su Qiao’s strength and suspected she had a powerful background.
• Su Qiao gave Jiang Qiuyan a hundred-year-old Wild Ginseng worth thirty taels, offering ten taels to cover her debt and asking for the rest to be delivered to her.
• The villagers recognized the ginseng and noticed Su Qiao had brought back a wolf from the Dense Forest.
• Jiang Qiuyan admitted she had been in the wrong and did not dare accept the ginseng.

Su Qiao accepted compensation from Jiang Qiuyan, warned her not to involve herself in the Underground Passage, and punished Li Dabao for bringing trouble to the Qi Family. After the wounded men were taken away, Su Qiao apologized to the Qi Family and revealed her true face, leaving them to ask what was going on.

• Su Qiao accepted fifty taels from Jiang Qiuyan and warned her to keep the Underground Passage conflict away from the Qi Family.
• Su Qiao kicked Li Dabao and beat him for helping Jiang Qiuyan find her, then stopped when Wang Guixiang intervened.
• Li Dabao fled, and Jiang Qiuyan paid villagers to remove the wounded men from the Qi Family courtyard.
• Su Qiao apologized to Qi Jinghe, Qi Yue, and Old Man Liu, wiped the medicinal liquid from her face, and revealed her delicate features.
• Su Qiao sat with the Qi Family and pulled her shaken son onto her lap as Old Man Liu asked what was happening.

Su Qiao told Old Man Liu and Qi Jinghe that her mother had been a Great General connected to the capital, and revealed that she had hidden her face with medicinal liquid. She took responsibility for protecting the family and prepared to use her Wild Ginseng to treat them, while Little Yue'er asked her to teach him to fly.

• Su Qiao explained that her mother had been a Great General connected to the capital and regretted that she had not trained people to protect them.
• Qi Jinghe worried that the enemies targeting Su Qiao were powerful, while she assured him she would handle the danger herself.
• Su Qiao revealed that her mother had used medicinal liquid to alter her face and gave Old Man Liu medicine for his injury and Qi Jinghe a remedy for bruises.
• Su Qiao brought down her Back Basket and offered four Wild Ginseng roots for money, medicine, and chicken stew.
• Little Yue'er admired Su Qiao's flight and asked her to teach him.

Su Qiao comforted Little Yue'er after the previous day's events and began teaching him to read and practice martial arts. The next day, as she prepared medicine and trained Yue'er at home, Qi Jinghe confronted her about Li Dabao's shattered kneecap, and she offered him silver so he could stop working at his stall.

• Su Qiao promised to teach Little Yue'er to read and practice martial arts, then carried him inside to make him something delicious.
• Little Yue'er said he was old enough to walk by himself, but Su Qiao insisted she could still hold and kiss him.
• Qi Jinghe took Yue'er from Su Qiao and told her not to teach him nonsense; Yue'er asked his father to be gentler, and Su Qiao said she liked Qi Jinghe as he was.
• The next day, Su Qiao brewed medicine for the household and taught Yue'er to exercise in the courtyard while Qi Jinghe brought home vegetables.
• Qi Jinghe told Su Qiao that Li Dabao's leg and kneecap had been shattered and accused her of doing it; Su Qiao denied leaving home and handed him silver so he would not need to run his stall.

Su Qiao gave Qi Jinghe the silver Jiang Qiuyan had paid her and assured him she considered Little Yue'er her son. Qi Jinghe remained suspicious of her past cruelty and warned her not to harm him or Little Yue'er, while their teasing left them both flustered.

• Su Qiao pushed the fifty taels of silver into Qi Jinghe's hands and said she would support him and regarded Little Yue'er as her son.
• Qi Jinghe privately doubted Su Qiao's claim, remembering how she had hurt Little Yue'er before.
• Qi Jinghe teased Su Qiao about her looks and dark heart, and she blushed before threatening to eat him.
• Qi Jinghe warned Su Qiao not to harm him or Little Yue'er and said her help the previous day did not earn his gratitude.
• Su Qiao told Qi Jinghe to use the silver as he wished and said he could wash off his fake freckles, but he insisted he liked the disguise.

Su Qiao sold a wolf pelt and wild ginseng, then went to town to buy supplies and a silver hairpin. After a shop assistant insulted her and drove her away, the shop’s female owner came out to ask what had happened.

• Su Qiao told Little Yue'er to rest, fed him pastries, and gave him homework after lunch.
• Su Qiao sold the wolf pelt for five taels of silver and a century-old wild ginseng for thirty-five taels.
• Su Qiao bought paper, brushes, ink, and a small dagger for self-defense.
• Su Qiao entered a jewelry shop and asked to see an eight-tael silver hairpin.
• The Shop Assistant mocked Su Qiao’s clothes and chased her out, and the woman in a green silk dress came out to ask what happened.

Su Qiao was accused of stealing a silver hairpin after Fang Qin and her Shop Assistant planted it in her bag. Su Qiao hid the hairpin in her Spatial Grid and agreed to go to the yamen, confident she could turn the accusation to her advantage.

• Su Qiao bought a red sandalwood hairpin and headed toward the small market.
• Fang Qin and the Shop Assistant blocked Su Qiao and accused her of stealing a silver hairpin from their shop.
• 444 warned Su Qiao that someone had secretly planted the hairpin in her cloth bag, and Su Qiao stored it in her Spatial Grid.
• Su Qiao challenged the Shop Assistant’s account and refused to let them search her.
• Su Qiao proposed going to the yamen, thinking she could earn some pocket money from the situation.

Su Qiao agreed to a body search at the county office after demanding compensation if the Silver Hairpin was not found. The search cleared her, leaving Fang Qin and her shop assistant facing Su Qiao’s challenge.

• Fang Qin had her subordinates surround Su Qiao and escorted her to Xiaoqiu Town’s county office.
• Su Qiao asked Magistrate Guo to order compensation if the Silver Hairpin was not found, and he agreed.
• Su Qiao introduced herself as Da Qiao and laid out the contents of her cloth bag for inspection.
• The shop assistant panicked when no Silver Hairpin appeared, and Fang Qin told him to be quiet.
• A female constable reported that no Silver Hairpin had been found, and Su Qiao asked Fang Qin whether she doubted the magistrate or the constables.

Su Qiao exposed the Shop Assistant’s false accusation, collected compensation from Fang Qin, and learned that Fang Qin had acted after seeing a portrait of Su Qiao’s mother. As Su Qiao considered her family’s safety and prepared to investigate the people pursuing them, she heard that someone had taken her man’s stall.

• Su Qiao challenged the Shop Assistant to search her, and Magistrate Guo ordered the Shop Assistant to receive fifty strokes for questioning his impartiality.
• Fang Qin admitted her assistant had acted foolishly and paid Su Qiao fifty taels in compensation.
• Su Qiao learned from Xiao Si that Fang Qin had arranged the scheme after seeing a portrait of Su Qiao’s mother.
• Su Qiao told Xiao Si to keep watching Fang Qin and planned to protect her family while investigating her mother’s background.
• Su Qiao hurried toward the small street by the bridge after hearing that someone had taken her man’s stall.

Su Qiao rescued Qi Jinghe from local thugs demanding protection money, then told him about selling a wolf and being cleared of a theft accusation. She gave him the silver she had received and showed him the red sandalwood hairpin she had bought for him.

• Su Qiao arrived at Qi Jinghe’s stall and kicked Third Brother Hong away from him.
• Su Qiao shattered a boulder with one punch, frightening Third Brother Hong and her underlings into surrendering their money.
• Su Qiao took the silver pouch and ordered Third Brother Hong and the others to leave.
• Su Qiao helped Qi Jinghe gather his goods and explained she had come to escort him home.
• Su Qiao told Qi Jinghe about selling a wolf, buying supplies for Yue'er, and being cleared of a theft accusation by the County Magistrate.
• Su Qiao handed Qi Jinghe the silver pouch and showed him the red sandalwood hairpin.

Su Qiao tried to persuade Qi Jinghe to stop running his stall, claiming she could support him and their son, while Qi Jinghe mistook her praise for mockery. The other stallholders backed Su Qiao and urged Qi Jinghe to stay at home.

• Su Qiao gave Qi Jinghe a finely carved wooden hairpin and promised to buy him more expensive gifts once she made a fortune.
• Su Qiao offered to hunt and gather medicinal herbs to support Qi Jinghe and their son instead of letting him continue setting up his stall.
• Qi Jinghe accused Su Qiao of being embarrassed by him, but she said she was worried that bad people on the street would covet his beauty.
• Su Qiao praised Qi Jinghe as handsome, prompting nearby stallholders to doubt her judgment and Qi Jinghe to accuse her of making fun of him.
• The stallholders urged Qi Jinghe to listen to Su Qiao and focus on the household.

Su Qiao tried to reassure Qi Jinghe that she supported his business, but he remained suspicious of her sudden kindness. Back home, Qi Jinghe guessed that she wanted his body and deliberately offered himself to her.

• Su Qiao praised Qi Jinghe in town and said she would rent him a shop once she had saved enough money.
• After leaving town, Qi Jinghe accused Su Qiao of pretending to be kind, and she said she wanted to spend her life with him.
• Su Qiao gave Little Yue'er paper, ink, and a brush, then taught him to write after dinner.
• Qi Jinghe came to Su Qiao's bedside and suggested she wanted his body, then lay down and offered himself to her.

Su Qiao tried to reassure Qi Jinghe that she had never teased other men and explained that Li Dabao had drugged him. When Qi Jinghe asked whether Yue'er was Li Dabao's child, Su Qiao prepared to reveal who Yue'er's father was, and he guessed Liu Jianfang.

• Qi Jinghe offered himself to Su Qiao, but she refused, saying they should both be willing.
• Qi Jinghe mocked Su Qiao for claiming she had never teased respectable married men, and she insisted she had no interest in them.
• Su Qiao said Li Dabao had drugged Qi Jinghe, making him suspect Yue'er was Li Dabao's child.
• Su Qiao assured Qi Jinghe that Li Dabao was not Yue'er's father, and he demanded to know who was.
• Su Qiao said she would tell Qi Jinghe the truth, and he guessed that Liu Jianfang was Yue'er's father.

Su Qiao told Qi Jinghe that Yue'er was their son, explaining that they had conceived him after getting drunk when she was sixteen. Qi Jinghe refused to believe her and instead tried to accept Yue'er as his own, then left in anger after demanding to know who Pan An was.

• Qi Jinghe threatened to kill Yue'er's mother, and Su Qiao stopped him and insisted that Yue'er was her child.
• Su Qiao explained that she and Qi Jinghe had been drunk when they conceived Yue'er, and apologized for forgetting and mistreating them afterward.
• Qi Jinghe doubted her story but said he would let the past go if she treated Yue'er as her own son.
• Qi Jinghe asked Su Qiao who Pan An was, believing he was a man who resembled him.
• Su Qiao did not understand the question, and Qi Jinghe angrily left the bed after accusing her of avoiding an answer.

Su Qiao remained puzzled by Qi Jinghe’s anger and spent several days tending to her family before meeting Liu Jianfang, who invited her to gamble. She went with him to Jiang Qiuyan’s gambling house, where Jiang reminded her to stay out of other people’s affairs.

• Su Qiao wondered who Qi Jinghe had accused her of talking about, and Xiao Si confirmed that no Pan An appeared in the plot.
• After Qi Jinghe gave her the cold shoulder, Su Qiao prepared mild nourishing medicine for Old Man Liu and Little Yue'er.
• Su Qiao ran into Liu Jianfang, who said he had made about ten liang on a trip and invited her to play a few rounds.
• Su Qiao accompanied Liu Jianfang to Jiang Qiuyan’s gambling house in Little Jiang Village.
• Jiang Qiuyan greeted Su Qiao and reminded her that she had said they should mind their own business.

Su Qiao went to a gambling den in Little Jiang Village with Liu Jianfang and won every round, while Qi Jinghe grew worried that she might harm Liu Jianfang over her possible connection to Yue'er. Qi Jinghe left home to bring Su Qiao back before she got into trouble.

• Jiang Qiuyan warned Su Qiao not to cause trouble at the gambling den, and Su Qiao promised she would behave.
• Qi Jinghe learned that Su Qiao had gone gambling with Liu Jianfang, and Old Man Liu reminded him that she had improved and had given him a hundred taels.
• Qi Jinghe suspected Liu Jianfang might be Yue'er's relative and worried Su Qiao could take revenge for Li Dabao's ruined knee.
• Old Man Liu urged Qi Jinghe to persuade Su Qiao to return patiently, and Qi Jinghe hurried to Little Jiang Village.
• At the gambling den, Su Qiao won every round while Liu Jianfang and the dealer watched in frustration.