Recaps

Su Qiao built her family’s prosperity through her tooth-care business while arranging for Su Yihe to study and planning a family shop. Her growing dealings with Feng Han led to a bargain for clothes and an unexpected ordeal for Su Yichen under Yuan Liu’s watch.

• Feng Han brought Su Qiao to hunt, where she shared a meal with him and Little White, then offered her fabric after she rejected his clothes and sewing proposals.
• Su Qiao gave the fabric to her family, helped everyone choose new outfits, and sold all 160 toothbrush and tooth-powder sets for one hundred taels.
• Su Qiao urged the family to use their shared funds fairly, arranged for Su Yihe to attend school, and proposed opening a shop under her name for the family’s benefit.
• After learning to sew with her relatives, Su Qiao knocked Su Yichen unconscious in an attempt to train his courage and carried him into the mountains.
• Feng Han and his guards encountered Su Qiao, and Feng Han arranged for Yuan Liu to watch over Su Yichen while Su Qiao agreed to make Feng Han ordinary clothes at Guyin Temple.
• Feng Han rode Su Qiao toward the village, and she warned him to return quickly because traveling at night was unsafe.
• When Su Yichen failed to return home, Su Qiao released 444 to find him and discovered him exhausted and injured while Yuan Liu forced him to catch a snake for food.

Su Qiao’s family faced a copied-product dispute, bought land, and prepared new goods while Su Qiao began teaching Little Haozi martial arts and making paper. Her time with Feng Han grew more intimate, but she returned to Willow Tree Village without agreeing to leave her family or her independent life.

• Su Yichen reached Willow Tree Village with Yuan Liu after surviving the mountains, while Su Qiao’s family learned that Liu Yuehong’s maternal family was selling cheaper, similar toothbrushes and tooth powder.
• Zhou Lihua confronted Liu Yuehong publicly and accused her of passing the Su Family’s recipe to her relatives, while the Xia Family’s elders questioned Goudan and reprimanded Liu Yuehong.
• Su Qiao showed her family that the copied tooth powder was inferior, and her grandfather bought ten mu of paddy fields and nearby wasteland for the family to develop.
• Su Qiao persuaded her grandmother to fund a small trial of embroidered socks, slippers, and bags, then rescued Little Haozi from a group of boys and began teaching him martial arts and characters.
• Su Qiao and Su Yihe prepared frames and pulp for making paper, while Su Qiao met Feng Han at the coal mine and discussed the natural remnants in its passage.
• At Feng Han’s villa, Su Qiao chose wine-red fabric and sewed him clothes as they talked about his past, her village life, and his wish to spend more time with her.
• Feng Han gave Su Qiao gifts and offered her land, but she said she wanted to earn silver and buy land herself, then left his carriage before it reached Willow Tree Village.
• Yuan Liu predicted that Su Qiao would marry Feng Han and move to the capital, but Yuan Wu warned that she valued village freedom and might not want palace life, so Feng Han told Yuan Liu to be quiet.

Su Qiao turned papermaking and handmade goods into new livelihoods while confronting Xia Xiaodie’s accusations and drawing Feng Han’s public support. The arc ended with the family preparing to expand its business and Su Yichen planning to travel after his exam.

• Feng Han defended his affection for Su Qiao and agreed to wait until next year, while Su Qiao tested her bark paper and planned further manufacturing projects.
• Su Qiao’s family discovered she had made paper, and she chose Su Huai'an to learn the demanding craft while hinting at another plan for the family.
• Feng Han kept the people responsible for the Liu family shop’s damage in custody, while Su Qiao warned her family to inspect the market before resuming sales.
• Xia Xiaodie and Liu Yuehong accused Su Qiao of having the Xia family shop sealed, but Su Qiao explained that counterfeit dental products had harmed customers and the village head apologized for his family’s conduct.
• Feng Han arrived in Willow Tree Village with White Tiger, publicly offered Su Qiao his backing, and privately asked Old Master Su to supervise the mine after returning to the capital.
• Su Qiao arranged for relatives and reliable village families to make embroidered goods, then asked Feng Han to help her open Su's Guyin Bookstore.
• Su Qiao rejected Feng Han’s offer to make her father an official, and the family learned that Feng Han commanded the Imperial Guards before Su Qiao urged Su Yichen to prepare carefully for official life.
• Su Yichen resolved to travel after his prefectural exam, while Su Qiao reported strong sales and proposed opening two stalls as the family considered expanding production.

Su Qiao visited the Zhou Family, shared her inventions and taught her relatives new crafts, then sold their handmade goods in town and the county. She returned home with earnings, gifts, and plans to expand production while Feng Han continued pursuing her.

• Su Qiao brought cured meat and eggs to the Zhou Family, explained her successful businesses, and showed them the paper she had made.
• Su Qiao taught her maternal aunts and cousins to make shoes, socks, and bags, and promised to bring them beauty products and designs.
• Su Qiao visited Feng Han, gave him a robe, and refused his invitation to return to the capital, though she agreed to consider living at one of his estates.
• Su Qiao and her family made goods for sale, and Feng Han arranged a market stall and discreet protection for them.
• Su Qiao sold all the goods in the county, then found that her second uncle’s family had also sold out in town.
• Su Qiao bought jewelry for her family and warned Ernie about Xia Xiaodie and Madam Xia’s manipulative behavior.
• Feng Han visited the jewelry shop and paid the cost price for Su Qiao’s purchases, while she refused to buy ornaments for herself.
• Su Qiao returned home with 485 taels in earnings, gave jewelry to the women in the family, and discussed new production plans and a water wheel with her grandparents.