Recaps

Su Qiao investigated Xia Xiaolin’s murder and suspected Gu Xue had helped Ding Peixin stage her disappearance, while her relationship with Du Muhan deepened. The arc left Su Qiao, Tao Junhui, and Su Xiyan on Basha Island, searching for Ding Peixin on land rather than at sea.

• Tao Junhui confirmed the headless corpse was Xia Xiaolin, and Su Qiao concluded that Ding Peixin had impersonated her before disappearing.
• A knife attack at the station wounded Tao Junhui and canceled the planned trip to Basha Island, while Du Muhan protected Su Qiao.
• Su Qiao and Du Muhan investigated Ding Peixin’s home, and Auntie Li recalled seeing Ding return drenched during a storm.
• Su Qiao gave Tao Junhui her deduction report at the hospital, where Su Xiyan blamed her for the family’s problems and later insulted her and Du Muhan.
• Su Qiao questioned Sun Zhihao and then Gu Xue, finding inconsistencies in Gu Xue’s account and suspecting Xia Xiaolin had used knowledge of her plastic surgery to extort her.
• Du Muhan confirmed Gu Xue had undergone facial surgery, while Tao Junhui agreed to travel with Su Qiao and Su Xiyan to investigate Ding Peixin on Basha Island.
• Du Muhan gave Su Qiao five million yuan for her planned boarding school, and the two became intimate before she left for her flight.
• On Basha Island, Su Qiao met Team Four and argued that Ding Peixin was hiding on land and that the ship photograph had been staged.

Su Qiao uncovered Gu Xue’s false identity while tracing Ding Peixin’s return to Chunlin City and investigating her disappearance. After Ding Peixin’s body was found, Su Qiao identified Gu Xue as the disguised figure in surveillance footage, and Gu Xue was arrested and asked to see her.

• Su Qiao traced Du Muhan’s connection to Ding Peixin and learned that he had barely known her as a child.
• Su Qiao returned to Chunlin City, confronted Gu Xue with evidence that she had taken her cousin’s identity, and questioned her about Xia Xiaolin and Ding Peixin.
• Su Qiao learned that Tao Junhui and Su Xiyan had survived the hurricane, while Du Muhan mourned his mother and buried her with Su Qiao’s help.
• Sun Zhihao told Su Qiao that valuables worth around twenty-six million yuan were missing, and Su Qiao traced Ding Peixin’s last known taxi ride to the old district.
• Su Qiao found a phone booth Ding Peixin had used, and the team traced the stolen phone to Wang Yan, who said he had found it near a trash heap.
• Students found Ding Peixin’s battered body in an old well on Seven Peaks Mountain, and Su Qiao questioned whether Wang Yan had been involved.
• Su Qiao spotted a disguised figure in surveillance footage and identified the person as Gu Xue by her build, walk, neck, and mole.
• Police arrested Gu Xue at the Plastic Surgery Hospital, and she asked to speak with Su Qiao, saying she envied her.

Su Qiao closed Gu Xue’s case, confronted Du Muhan’s hidden past, and built a life with him before entering a new plane. There, she healed her leg, killed a tiger, and clashed with Xi Hanzhou as she investigated their mysterious connection.

• Su Qiao confronted Gu Xue about her jealousy and crimes, and Gu Xue admitted she had manipulated Ding Peixin and killed her to protect herself and steal her fortune.
• Police recovered Gu Xue’s stolen valuables and Xia Xiaolin’s remains, but Gu Xue died by suicide in custody.
• Ding Wencheng attacked Su Qiao and Du Muhan, injuring Du Muhan’s wrist, and Du Muhan revealed how Ding Wencheng had abused his mother and how he had sought revenge.
• Su Qiao warned Du Muhan against taking revenge, then approved their marriage after putting him on probation.
• Su Qiao helped build schools and resumed solving cases with Du Muhan, while Tao Junhui and Su Xiyan went their separate ways.
• Su Qiao entered a new plane and found herself beside Xi Hanzhou after he killed two men, then learned he was the Crown Prince who would be imprisoned and die in a fire.
• Su Qiao discovered her leg was crooked and that she was Prime Minister Su’s neglected daughter, whose past life involved being used by Xi Muyan and later helping Xi Hanzhou.
• Su Qiao secretly reset and healed her leg, wished for Xi Hanzhou to regain his past-life memories, and learned that the wish required them to kiss.
• Su Qiao killed a tiger in the forest, and Xi Hanzhou carried her away after noticing her aching leg, when she challenged his arrogance, he promised she would see him gain power.

Su Qiao kept Xi Hanzhou at a distance while navigating Xi Muyan’s request, a confrontation with Su Yuxin, and the Emperor’s scrutiny at the banquet. After earning the frontier leaders’ admiration with her knowledge, she became the subject of Batie’s request that she marry Yingmu, which Prime Minister Su opposed.

• Su Qiao slipped away from camp to ride across the grasslands, and Xi Hanzhou followed her, carried her onto his horse, and warned her about the dangers of riding alone at night.
• Su Qiao told Xi Hanzhou she had healed her own leg and rejected his offer to punish those who had hurt her, then warned him not to trust anyone in the struggle for power.
• Su Qiao discovered Xiao Ling had given her banquet outfit and jewelry to Su Yuxin, slapped the maid after she challenged her, and changed into another outfit.
• Su Yuxin confronted Su Qiao publicly over Xiao Ling, but Su Qiao defended her authority as the elder legitimate sister and challenged the princes and officials’ sons to consider whether they would tolerate an insulting servant.
• Xi Hanzhou ordered Xiao Ling punished, while the Emperor allowed him to decide Su Yuxin’s fate, and Su Qiao intervened to protect her sister, and Xi Hanzhou left her alive.
• The Emperor questioned Su Qiao about her closeness to Xi Hanzhou, and Xi Hanzhou arranged a separate table and trustworthy palace maids for her before learning that no decree had settled her match with Xi Muyan.
• Su Qiao impressed the frontier leaders’ children with her knowledge and gave them advice and a prescription for an epidemic affecting their horses and sheep.
• Batie asked the Emperor to make Su Qiao Yingmu’s Primary Consort, and Prime Minister Su objected.