Recaps

Su Qiao sold wild ginseng to rebuild her home and settle into village life, where Fu Jingyao and Xia Yao reentered her world. After Su Qiao stabilized Xiao Bao’s broken ribs and helped him recover, Fu Jingyao began investigating why she had left him, while Su Qiao pushed him into morning exercise.

• Su Qiao sold wild ginseng for 380,000 yuan, arranged to rebuild her house, and returned to the village with supplies and a used pickup truck.
• Su Qiao completed her new home, hosted a village banquet, and drove away three thieves who broke into her courtyard.
• Director Lu brought Fu Jingyao and Xia Yao to Su Qiao’s house for the farming program, and Su Qiao let Fu Jingyao stay while refusing Xia Yao a place in her bed.
• Su Qiao clashed with Xia Yao over her past with Fu Jingyao and sent her away, while Fu Jingyao struggled to cook, eat vegetables, and wash dishes.
• When Xiao Bao fell and injured his chest, Su Qiao examined him, used a silver needle to ease his pain, and stabilized his broken ribs before the trip to town.
• Su Qiao accompanied Xiao Bao to the clinic, where doctors treated his two broken ribs and praised her needle treatment.
• Su Qiao bought Xiao Bao a Transformers toy and told Fu Jingyao she had taught herself medicine and paid for her home with money from selling herbs.
• After Xiao Bao recovered, Su Qiao returned to the village with Fu Jingyao, who ordered an investigation into old hospital records as Xia Yao vowed to stop Su Qiao from winning him back.
• Su Qiao woke Fu Jingyao early, called him weak, and ordered him to get dressed for exercise.

Su Qiao faced a poisoning, an online frame-up, and Xia Yao’s interference while Fu Jingyao struggled to learn why she had left him ten years earlier. Su Qiao finally explained her illness, hardship, and years of quietly watching over him, leaving Fu Jingyao apologizing for having misunderstood her.

• Su Qiao made Fu Jingyao jog and practice tai chi, then decided to investigate Fu Heng’s company as she recalled the danger he posed to Fu Jingyao.
• Su Qiao fought Brother Ming’s gang, sparred with He Chengwuu, and later treated Yun Gui and her family after poisonous mushrooms contaminated their soup.
• Su Qiao and Fu Jingyao suspected deliberate attacks after the poisoning, while Xia Yao blamed children for the mushrooms and an obscene video impersonating Su Qiao spread online.
• Su Qiao reported the video to the police and presented evidence of her income, while the officers began investigating the suspected poisoning and frame-up.
• Fu Jingyao confronted Xia Yao about Su Qiao’s departure ten years earlier, then learned she had known Su Qiao was ill and had hidden it from him.
• Su Qiao told Fu Jingyao she had left after learning his family had found him because she feared her recurring illness would burden him, and she showed him keepsakes from their time apart.
• Su Qiao described her poverty and illness, her yearly attempts to visit Fu Jingyao, and the birthday shoes she had made for him, while Fu Jingyao apologized for misunderstanding her.

After resolving the crisis around Fu Jingyao, Su Qiao entered a new life in the body of the neglected twin heir of Su Manor and concealed her identity while navigating an examination scandal. The arc left Long Jingyuan and the court examining Su Qiao’s extraordinary paintings and inventions, with war among the Four Kingdoms looming.

• Su Qiao exposed Xia Yao’s schemes, and the police arrested her for distributing obscene videos and poisoning villagers.
• Su Qiao rescued Old Master Fu from a plant-based neurotoxin, helped Fu Jingyao defeat Fu Heng’s challenge to the Fu Group, and later lived with Fu Jingyao in Small Mountain Village.
• Su Qiao woke in an examination cell and learned she was inhabiting the body of Su Yuan’s neglected twin daughter, who had been hypnotized into believing she was a boy.
• Su Qiao disguised her appearance, cultivated through the Locked Hall Examination, and submitted doodles instead of answers while Su Jingya and Prince Jin watched her return to Su Manor.
• Su Qiao warned Marquis Su that leaked examination questions could bring the Emperor’s punishment, and the Emperor later arrested officials and examinees involved in the scandal while Su Manor escaped.
• Su Qiao hypnotized Su Jingya and her attendants into believing she was Su Jingya’s identical twin elder brother, then secluded herself to cultivate and develop medicines.
• At the delayed Palace Examination, Grand Tutor Xie presented Su Qiao’s examination paintings to Long Jingyuan, who recognized their depictions of celestial charts, farming improvements, ships, defenses, and rapid-fire crossbows.

Long Jingyuan summoned Su Qiao to explain her inventions, then appointed her an Imperial Guard and kept her close at court. Su Qiao proved her martial skill and helped the Ministry of Works develop a water wheel, while Long Jingyuan and the court began seeking her advice on national problems.

• Long Jingyuan questioned Su Qiao about her examination answers and paintings, then ordered her to remain in the palace and appointed her a fourth-rank Imperial Guard.
• Su Qiao avoided reporting for duty, attended the Qionglin Banquet, impressed the guests with her calligraphy, and drunkenly complained to Long Jingyuan about emperors and loveless harems.
• Long Jingyuan ordered an investigation into Su Qiao’s past, while Su Qiao began palace duty and Consort Yue’s attempt to enter the Imperial Study ended with her demotion and confinement.
• When guards challenged Su Qiao at the Training Ground, she defeated Liu Xingtang with one swing and impressed the onlookers.
• Long Jingyuan ordered Su Qiao to help build a wind-powered water wheel, and she explained its design to Minister Tian and made a graduated ruler.
• Long Jingyuan promoted Su Qiao to the Imperial Inner Guard, and after nearly two months working between the ministries, she was asked to advise the court on droughts and floods and demanded ten days off for her answer.