Recaps

Su Qiao and Xiao Jingsheng recovered the Liu family’s stolen compensation, got engaged, and secured their university futures despite Su Qiaoqiao’s attempt to steal Su Qiao’s admission notice. The arc ended with Xie Hui still pursuing Su Qiao after learning she was engaged, while his parents warned him to stay away.

• Su Qiao led the Liu family to the railway construction team, where Lin Xiuying reunited with her brother Lin Bingkun and he moved to recover the stolen compensation.
• Lin Bingkun exposed Yang Fugui’s embezzlement, ordered the Su family to return the Liu family’s money, and had Yang Fugui face arrest.
• Su Qiao and Xiao Jingsheng recovered valuables buried in the Su family’s backyard, agreed to become engaged, and Xiao Jingsheng threw the jar into a river for safekeeping.
• Lin Bingkun brought betrothal gifts to the Liu family and offered to help Su Qiao sell her cultivation technology to the state, while he also confessed his feelings to Liu Chunfang.
• Su Qiaoqiao arranged to use Su Qiao’s identity and admission opportunity, but Su Qiao returned with the principal and a postal worker, who exposed her for hiding Su Qiao’s notice.
• Su Qiao confirmed her admission as the national Zhuangyuan, while Xiao Jingsheng received an admission to the country’s best Military Academy, and the village officials delivered Su Qiao’s rewards.
• Xie Hui confessed his feelings to Su Qiao, but she rejected him and told him she was engaged to Xiao Jingsheng, prompting Madam Xie to confront her.
• Father Xie warned Madam Xie and Xie Hui not to provoke Captain Lin or pursue Su Qiao, but Xie Hui still visited the village and refused to give up after Su Qiao rejected him again.

Su Qiao exposed Su Qiaoqiao’s schemes, secured a place with the Agricultural Bureau, and left Xiaohe Village for Beijing. She then awoke in the palace with a Gu in her brain and began navigating the danger around Su Yue and Ye Jinghua.

• Su Qiao exposed Su Qiaoqiao’s attempt to trap Xiao Jingsheng, and the village ruled that Su Qiaoqiao had to marry within a week.
• Su Qiao foiled Yang Yue'e and Su Qiaoqiao’s plan to send her to the Wang Family, then delivered evidence against her maternal uncle to officials.
• Su Qiao showed Li Guixiang and Old Hong her soilless vegetables and ginseng, agreed to work with the Agricultural Bureau, and Xiao Jingsheng protected her from Su Qiaoqiao’s attack.
• Su Qiaoqiao was sent to the Wang Family, Yang Yue'e’s brother faced investigation, and Yang Yue'e gave birth prematurely to a girl after feuding with Old Lady Su.
• Su Qiao and Xiao Jingsheng left for Beijing, where her agricultural work helped Xiaohe Village prosper, and years later she saw Su Qiaoqiao tending a vegetable stall.
• Su Qiao awoke in the palace with a Marrow-Devouring Gu in her brain and remembered that Su Yue had destroyed her family and brought her into the palace.
• At the Emperor’s birthday banquet, Su Qiao denounced the poisonous Black Pills and exposed Su Yue’s use of bugs, while Ye Jinghua protected her from punishment.
• Ye Jinghua carried Su Qiao away when a headache struck, and after examining her, Chief Physician Yu could not explain her symptoms.
• Ye Jinghua sent the sleeping Su Qiao back to her courtyard, Ye Beiyao ordered an investigation into Su Yue’s background, and Su Qiao decided to strengthen her martial arts while seeking a way to remove the Gu.

Su Qiao reunited with her brother Su Baiwen, uncovered more of Su Yue’s origins, and grew closer to Ye Jinghua while hiding the strength of her abilities. She began refining a Gu King to remove the Marrow-Devouring Gu in her mind and sent Su Baiwen to gather venomous creatures, while he warned Ye Jinghua to stay away from her.

• Su Qiao hypnotized Nanny Gui, then learned that Su Baiwen was her brother and heard how he had returned to avenge their family.
• Su Baiwen gave Su Qiao their mother’s Myriad Poison Gu Scripture, and she memorized it before burning it to keep Su Yue and He Zhou from finding it.
• Ye Beiyao questioned Nanny Gui, who revealed that the Empress Dowager was Su Yue’s mother and that the baby born to Su Ruihe’s wife had died.
• Su Qiao fought Consort Li and her attendants after they attacked her, and Ye Jinghua comforted her and ordered them punished.
• Su Baiwen brought Su Qiao food, herbs, and new bedding, while Ye Jinghua arranged better meals and renovations for her courtyard.
• Su Baiwen confronted Ye Jingwen, but Su Qiao defended him and later shared Ye Jinghua’s food with her brother.
• Su Qiao attracted poisonous creatures into her courtyard and explained that she needed to create a Gu King to remove the Marrow-Devouring Gu before it damaged her memory and sanity.
• Su Qiao sent Su Baiwen to gather venomous creatures, and he later warned Ye Jinghua to stay away from her, insisting she would reject him once her mind recovered.

Su Qiao and Ye Jinghua grew closer as she treated his poison and faced Su Yue’s threats. Su Qiao finally drew the Marrow-Devouring Gu from her body and refined a Golden Gu King, leaving Ye Jinghua’s cure within reach.

• Ye Beiyao discovered that he had been poisoned, while Su Yue tried unsuccessfully to see him and Nanny Gui was found dead near the mass grave.
• Su Qiao recognized Ye Jinghua’s unusual poison and gave him pills, while he admitted he had never wanted the throne and Su Qiao confessed to Su Baiwen that she liked him.
• Ye Jinghua took Su Qiao to the Lantern Fair and proposed that she become his Princess Consort, but Su Baiwen objected because Ye Jinghua belonged to the Imperial Family that had killed their father.
• He Zhou removed Ye Beiyao’s gu, while Su Qiao confronted Su Yue at the palace and Ye Jinghua publicly declared that he wanted Su Qiao alone and asked her to marry him.
• Su Yue claimed to be Su Qiao’s sister, but Ye Jinghua stated that Prime Minister Su had only one daughter, and Su Yue later blamed Su Qiao for the wrinkles appearing on her face.
• Su Baiwen brought poisonous creatures back from South Mountain, and Su Qiao refined a Golden Gu King before letting it enter her body to draw out the Marrow-Devouring Gu.
• Qing Feng caught the Marrow-Devouring Gu when it emerged from Su Qiao’s wrist, and Su Qiao kept it for Su Yue before separating the Golden Gu King into a porcelain container.
• Qing Feng identified the Golden Gu King and discussed Huanan, while Su Qiao said Ye Jinghua’s poison could be cured once two ingredients arrived.