Recaps

Su Qiao used the Emperor’s plans and the palace’s rivalries to shield her family while uncovering who was poisoning her. Jin Canghan realized Su Qiao was the girl he had rescued, and the arc ended with Su Qiao trapping Gu Wanting as her worries over childlessness grew.

• Su Qiao refused the Empress position, and Jin Moli began questioning Gu Wanting’s sincerity as the court debated who should become Empress.
• After Su Qiao was poisoned, Jin Canghan confronted the Empress Dowager and confessed his love to Su Qiao, who pretended to sleep rather than elope with him.
• Jin Canghan remembered rescuing Su Qiao as a child and realized she had entered the palace hoping to find him.
• Su Qiao resolved to protect Jin Canghan, and he promised to keep her and their child safe while silently following her through the palace.
• Su Qiao refused Jin Moli’s improper plan to promote her brother, then made her own palace appointments and used praise of the Emperor’s promise to provoke Consort Wan.
• Consort Wan invited Jin Moli to dinner and spent the night with him, but her attempts to seek his favor only deepened his doubts about her intentions.
• Su Qiao won her third secret contest against Gu Wanting by luring her into a trap, while Gu Wanting worried about her childlessness and standing in the palace.

Su Qiao exposed Consort Wan’s poisoning scheme while Jin Moli’s devotion to her faltered and his feelings for Su Qiao grew. Jin Canghan’s disguise and claim on Su Qiao came to light, leaving the Empress Dowager intent on eliminating Su Qiao and her unborn child.

• Su Qiao helped expose Ren Dong and Consort Wan’s role in the drugging and poisoning, and Imperial Physician Wang revealed Consort Wan was pregnant.
• Jin Moli demoted Consort Wan, ordered Ren Dong executed, and continued visiting Su Qiao while his health and ability to perform deteriorated.
• Su Qiao secretly resolved to make Jin Moli and Gu Wanting pay, while Jin Canghan cared for her and promised to protect her and her child.
• Jin Moli overheard Gu Wanting lamenting her lost influence and realized she had hidden her ambitions from him.
• Su Qiao told Jin Moli she had spent years searching for the boy who rescued her, leading him to believe she had mistaken Jin Canghan for him.
• Jin Canghan revealed himself to Jin Moli as the eunuch who had protected Su Qiao, and the brothers fought over her and her child.
• Jin Canghan left the Underground Palace after confronting the Empress Dowager, who decided Su Qiao and her child had to die to end the conflict.
• Jin Canghan visited the sleeping Su Qiao and left to build his forces, while Su Qiao gathered flowers in the Imperial Garden and Gu Wanting confronted her.

Su Qiao and Jin Canghan exposed Jin Moli's crimes and secured Jin Canghan's claim to the throne, while Su Qiao helped establish their family and kingdom. After their story ended, Su Qiao woke in a new body at a press conference for “Peerless Beauty.”

• Su Qiao faked a miscarriage after Gu Wanting attacked her, and Jin Canghan vowed to avenge her and their child.
• Su Qiao revealed to Nanny Bai that she had married Jin Canghan and declared him the rightful Emperor, while Jin Canghan confronted the Empress Dowager over her past actions.
• Su Qiao and Jin Canghan escaped Jin Moli's schemes, went to the Su family, and prepared their plan to take the throne.
• Su Qiao arranged for a storm to strike Minghe Palace during Gu Wanting's labor, and the lightning and the birth of a Prince fueled doubts about Jin Moli's rule.
• Su Qiao presented the succession decree and evidence of Jin Moli's crimes, and Jin Canghan revealed his identity before the ministers.
• Jin Canghan became Emperor and named Su Qiao Empress, while Jin Moli died in prison and Gu Wanting was sent back to her family.
• Su Qiao and Jin Canghan had a son and a daughter, and their kingdom secured alliances and a hundred-year peace treaty with surrounding nations.
• Su Qiao woke in a new clone after dying from a gunshot and recognized that she was at a press conference for “Peerless Beauty.”

Su Qiao turned Su Man’s press-conference humiliation into a public defense of independence, then pursued acting and money while trying to escape Du Jingzhou and her tangled relationships. The arc left Du Jingzhou suspecting that Su Man was the woman he had once hidden, as Su Qiao headed to the film set and Pei Yulou ended things with Shen Biwei.

• Su Qiao countered Shen Biwei’s attacks at the press conference, defending her views on love and cohabitation and winning the reporters’ admiration.
• Su Qiao learned of Su Man’s family abuse, Du Jingzhou’s confinement of the original Su Qiao, and Su Man’s failed acting career and death.
• Su Qiao disguised herself in her late father’s clothes, won gold bars at Hongyun Casino, and escaped after pursuing thieves who stole her winnings.
• Director Yu summoned Su Qiao for test filming, while the unedited press-conference interview made her breakup with Pei Yulou public.
• Du Jingzhou recognized a strong resemblance between Su Man and the woman he had hidden for three years and ordered An Jin to find her.
• Su Qiao rejected Pei Yulou’s pleas to live together and told him to settle his affairs before approaching her again.
• Shen Biwei threatened Su Qiao, who dismissed her and left for the film set, while Pei Yulou told Shen Biwei their relationship had been a mistake from the beginning.