Recaps

Le Yu used Jing Zhengwei’s new newspaper to influence readers and create an opening for White Night, while surviving an assassination attempt and drawing Mu Qingmei into his plans. The newspaper gained a brisk readership as Jing Qingfu weighed whether Jing Zhengwei should inherit the family, and Le Yu left to meet White Night as Yin Yinyin.

• Le Yu returned to the Jing family gathering, shot Jing Zhengfeng with a blank, and pitched articles that blamed workers for their hardships, earning Jing Qingfu’s support for a newspaper.
• Wei Weiwei tested Qian Yuya for White Night and discussed cooperation with Yin Yinyin, while Le Yu separately persuaded Yin Minghong to accept Yin Yinyin’s proposal.
• Le Yu recruited Mu Qingmei as an editor and launched the Youth Newspaper with fictional columns, role-played answers, and a serialized story.
• Qin Leyin arranged an ambush on Jing Zhengwei, and Le Yu and Mu Qingmei fought their way through the attackers before reaching the main street.
• Le Yu began sharing the newspaper’s ideas with readers, while Luan Jiba used its stories and discussion material to draw a crowd to his storytelling performance.
• Jing Qingfu revealed that his illness had been a test of his sons and considered Jing Zhengwei a possible heir, though he feared his ruthless nature.
• The Youth Newspaper’s second issue sold briskly, and Le Yu left the office to meet White Night as Yin Yinyin.

Le Yu used the Youth Newspaper and his position in the Jing family to advance White Night’s campaign while Qin Leyin revealed the Huiyao Four Guards’ plans and offered an alliance. As Jing Zhengwu’s brothers plotted to frame him, White Night and the Jing family conspirators prepared simultaneous operations against the Half-City factories.

• Wen Hong mistook Le Yu’s female disguise for Yin Yinyin and asked him to help White Night respond to the Jing family’s wage cuts, while Le Yu proposed attacking factory machinery, including Jing Zhengwei’s own factory.
• Le Yu advised Qing Lan to provoke readers with the Youth Newspaper and direct their anger toward class conflict, then helped fight the fires when White Night attacked the Jing family’s steelworks.
• Jing Qingfu assigned Le Yu to lead a Half-City Patrol Team, where Le Yu met merchant heirs, including Qin Leyin, who had arranged the Heavenly Sword Gang’s ambush.
• Le Yu and Qin Leyin patrolled together, and Qin revealed he was Red Music of the Huiyao Four Guards and wanted the Silver Blood Society destroyed.
• Qin Leyin explained the Guards’ aims and offered to help Le Yu become head of the Jing family, but Le Yu agreed only to discuss cooperation after Qin revealed his political plans and threatened his position.
• Yin Minghong agreed to join the Patrol Team for White Night, but Le Yu instead made him General Manager of Jing Zhengwei’s businesses and refused his self-recommendation.
• Jing Zhengwu recruited Jing Zhengfeng and Jing Zhengtang into a plot to frame Jing Zhengwei by staging factory attacks, while Le Yu planned to take night duty and recalled giving White Night an attack plan.
• Rongyao led White Night Walkers through the river toward Half-City for the Shattered Silver operation as masked martial artists at a Jing family factory began the Severing Gold operation.

Le Yu inherited leadership of the Jing family after Jing Qingfu’s death, then turned against the Silver Blood Society’s order and began remaking the family with White Night’s help. He left the arc with Qing Lan freed, the family purge underway, and war approaching Nanyang Pass.

• Le Yu introduced Monopoly to his patrol colleagues, then watched the Half-City District attack begin while they played.
• Yin Minghong and White Night Walkers bombed factories as a second group of attackers set fires, and the Silver Blood heirs later discussed how to shift blame for the destruction.
• At the Silver Blood Council, Le Yu was named the Jing family’s representative as Ting Jiu secured punishments and measures against White Night.
• Jing Qingfu transferred the family’s leadership to Le Yu, while Jing Zhengwu was arrested and died after Qin Leyin’s role in his capture was exposed.
• Jing Qingfu admitted he had chosen Le Yu to ally with White Night and destroy the Silver Blood Society, but Le Yu killed him and vowed to ruin the Jing family.
• Le Yu took control of the family, accused the Old Madam of attempting to assassinate Jing Qingfu, and freed Qing Lan by giving her Jing Residence.
• Le Yu recruited Yin Minghong to replace family managers with capable outsiders, while Qing Lan accepted her freedom and Le Yu comforted her after she confessed her feelings.
• Lan Yan’s Swift Blade Soldiers broke through Nanyang Pass, and Le Yu had Yin Minghong kill Jing Suke as part of a purge before telling Jing Zhengtang that his actions were for justice.

Le Yu navigated a succession crisis in the Silver Blood Society while growing closer to Qing Lan and weighing whether to use power for the working class. After Lan Yan chose him as president, he offered to back Le Yu’s transformation of East Sun District and fund the Coastal Army by taking wealth from its elites.

• Jing Zhengtang and Feiwei asked Le Yu to help them escape East Sun, and Le Yu agreed to restore Jing Zhengtang’s power while making him use Yin Minghong to remove Jing Zhengwu’s faction.
• Le Yu joined the emergency council as Ting Gu rejected the Coastal Army’s demand for supplies payment and organized an assassination attempt against Lan Yan.
• Ting Gu’s abdication sparked a contest over the Silver Blood presidency, and Le Yu realized that the other families’ nomination of him was a trap aimed at the Jing Family.
• Qin Leyin explained Ting Gu’s plan to turn the delegation into a source of loyal leaders, while Le Yu decided to join the mission and Qing Lan admitted her feelings for him.
• Le Yu and Qing Lan promised to build a life together, then Le Yu joined the merchant heirs’ delegation to meet Lan Yan at Copper Bell Town.
• Chen Chenchen activated the Veil of Discord during a meal with Lan Yan, but Lan Yan exposed the assassin, defeated him, and revealed his own Hidden Sword training.
• Lan Yan refused to negotiate with the delegation under Ting Gu’s agreement and demanded written offers from the heirs, but chose Le Yu’s blank sheet as the basis for making him president.
• Lan Yan told Le Yu he had chosen him for his sympathy toward the lower classes and proposed taking wealth from East Sun’s elites to fund the Coastal Army while Le Yu transformed the district.