Recaps

Su Qiao recovered her strength while drawing Ye Shaoxuan’s attention and facing hostility from the women around him. As Lin Hanyan and Huangfu Zhenlou grew closer, Su Qiao confronted Lin Hanyan and challenged her claim to Ye Shaoxuan.

• Su Qiao chose to recover her martial arts before confronting Lin Hanyan, and she hypnotized Nanny Wu to help conceal her plans.
• Ye Shaoxuan caught Su Qiao practicing a delicate bearing, teased her about seducing someone, and grew jealous when she praised Du Heng.
• Madam Ye and the other women belittled Su Qiao, but Ye Shaoxuan declared her the most beautiful and carried her away when she seemed unwell.
• Du Heng found that Su Qiao’s blocked meridians made her weak but said she could live for decades if she avoided injury and cold, easing Ye Shaoxuan’s concern.
• Ye Shaoxuan investigated Su Qiao’s background while denying his concern for her, and Su Qiao learned that Lin Hanyan and Huangfu Zhenlou were growing closer.
• Huangfu Zhenlou planned to seek Lin Hanyan’s hand, while Su Qiao dismissed 444’s warning and went to provoke Lin Hanyan.
• Su Qiao demanded that Lin Hanyan call her the Young Master’s Wife, and Lin Hanyan threatened to sell her or send her to a brothel.
• Su Qiao told Lin Hanyan that Ye Shaoxuan loved her instead, leaving Lin Hanyan unable to answer because Ye Shaoxuan had never treated her kindly.

Su Qiao used Ye Shaoxuan’s devotion to protect her place in Flying Eagle Fortress while stirring up conflict among Lin Hanyan, Huangfu Zhenlou, and the others. As the Martial Arts Convention approached, Ye Shaoxuan discovered she was not Su Lian Yue and learned the Demonic Sect was drawing martial artists toward the fortress.

• Su Qiao pretended Lin Hanyan had bullied her, and Ye Shaoxuan rebuked Lin Hanyan and promised to protect Su Qiao.
• Su Qiao gave Ye Shaoxuan a list of rare medicines to restore her martial arts, and he agreed to gather them while privately investigating her.
• Su Qiao fueled gossip about Lin Hanyan and Huangfu Zhenlou, then attended Ye Zhongli’s birthday banquet in a bright outfit that made Ye Shaoxuan jealous and protective.
• At the banquet, Ye Shaoxuan defended Su Qiao from mockery and learned she could not taste food because Old Poison Ghost had poisoned her as a child.
• Su Qiao exposed Lin Hanyan’s feelings for Huangfu Zhenlou, and Ye Shaoxuan struck Huangfu Youran and threatened her for insulting Su Qiao.
• Ye Shaoxuan promised Su Qiao she would become the Fortress Lord’s Madam, while Su Qiao used his offer of three requests to ask him to keep his distance.
• Su Qiao learned that Xu Changsong had proclaimed himself Cult Master and Hong Luan had become Left Protector of the Demonic Sect.
• Ye Shaoxuan recognized Su Qiao in a portrait as the Su family’s young lady rather than Su Lian Yue, ordered his subordinate to conceal her identity, and refused to defend Flying Eagle Fortress from the coming conflict.

Su Qiao and Ye Shaoxuan grew closer as Su Qiao secretly healed her meridians and regained her martial arts. Before the Martial Arts Convention, Su Qiao exposed Lin Hanyan’s poisoning of Huangfu Zhenlou, leaving him to investigate her while the convention began.

• Su Qiao exposed Lin Hanyan’s conflicting feelings and forced her to face Huangfu Zhenlou’s questions, but he chose to believe her and proposed marriage after the Martial Arts Convention.
• Ye Shaoxuan defended Su Qiao from Ye Ningshuang, then pressed Su Qiao about her identity and insisted she stay with him.
• Ye Shaoxuan told Su Qiao about his painful past and his reasons for becoming Cult Master, while they discussed the coming threat to the Demon Sect.
• Su Qiao secretly used the medicinal ingredients to clear her blocked meridians, recovered from her injuries, and advanced to the twelfth level before the convention.
• Su Qiao confronted Lin Hanyan and revealed that she had poisoned Huangfu Zhenlou instead of giving him sacred medicine, while Huangfu Zhenlou overheard them.
• Du Heng confirmed that Huangfu Zhenlou’s two counteracting poisons had damaged his vitality and foundation, and Huangfu Zhenlou ordered an investigation into Lin Hanyan.
• Su Qiao accompanied Ye Shaoxuan to the Martial Arts Convention, learned that Huangfu Zhenlou knew Lin Hanyan had poisoned him, and whispered a request to Ye Shaoxuan.

Su Qiao exposed Lin Hanyan’s plot and revealed her own identity to Ye Shaoxuan, who pledged to marry her. At the Martial Arts Convention, accusations against Lin Hanyan and Huangfu Xian unsettled the crowd, while Ye Shaoxuan investigated the imperial court’s influence and Madam Ye summoned Su Qiao.

• Ye Shaoxuan stayed beside Su Qiao at the Martial Arts Convention, then took her shopping as Su Qiao set a trap involving the surviving ambushers and Lin Hanyan.
• Huangfu Zhenlou and Huangfu Xian found four injured ambushers dead, while Lin Hanyan told Gong Jun to kill Su Lian Yue and revealed her past-life connection to Lin Jinxia.
• Su Qiao captured and interrogated Gong Jun, learning that Lin Hanyan had arranged her capture, the deaths of her adoptive family, and the destruction of her village.
• Su Qiao sent Gong Jun to deliver letters before killing himself at Huangfu Xian’s courtyard, then revealed her true appearance and identity as Demonic Sect Cult Master to Ye Shaoxuan.
• Ye Shaoxuan proposed marriage after the convention, and Su Qiao agreed while insisting they confront Lin Hanyan, Xu Changsong, and Huangfu Xian.
• At the convention, Ye Shaoxuan and Su Qiao challenged Lin Hanyan over Gong Jun and her relationship with Huangfu Zhenlou, who broke off their engagement and accused her of helping ambush him.
• The crowd debated Huangfu Xian’s court ties and the Demon Sect as the martial competition resumed, while Su Qiao decided to return to the Demon Sect and reclaim her possessions.
• Ye Shaoxuan investigated Huangfu Xian’s supporters and imperial agents, then Madam Ye summoned Su Qiao to the Main Hall and asked whether she was settling in comfortably.