Chapter Summaries

Verdant Green Maiden recovered the Qing Xiao Jade Maiden Seal from Emperor Liu Heng and helped Chunyu Tiying secure his promise to investigate her father’s case. In Chang’an, Xu Fu approached Verdant Green Maiden and revealed she had once belonged to the Yin Yang Family.

• Verdant Green Maiden hid with Chunyu Tiying in the Qing Xiao Jade Maiden Temple while Emperor Liu Heng performed a sacrifice.
• Liu Heng presented the Qing Xiao Jade Maiden Seal, explaining that Emperor Gao had ordered it returned to Verdant Green Maiden.
• Chunyu Tiying told Liu Heng what had happened to Chunyu Yi, and he promised to investigate once her father arrived in Chang’an.
• Verdant Green Maiden left Chunyu Tiying in Liu Heng’s care and examined the seal in Chang’an’s East-West Market, sensing a connection to herself.
• Xu Fu approached Verdant Green Maiden and, in a private room, revealed that she had once belonged to the Yin Yang Family.

Verdant Green Maiden granted Xu Fu a seal, then defeated a crowd of Yin Yang Family Members and discovered the Goddess Seal had become a Jiao Snake Pearl. After she and Hong Luan crashed into a pit, they met Liu An, Marquis of Fuling.

• Xu Fu asked Verdant Green Maiden for a seal, and Verdant Green Maiden granted one after Xu Fu explained how she had learned about the Goddess Seal.
• Xu Fu warned Verdant Green Maiden that the Yin Yang School still sought her, and Verdant Green Maiden encountered more than a hundred Yin Yang Family Members outside Chang'an.
• Verdant Green Maiden transformed into a giant Jiao Snake and swept the attackers into Xiao Mountain for the wolves.
• The Goddess Seal transformed into a Jiao Snake Pearl, and Verdant Green Maiden discovered it contained storage space and held Auspicious Fortune she could separate from the Han Court's destiny.
• Verdant Green Maiden and Hong Luan fell into a pit, where Liu An, Marquis of Fuling, greeted them and asked if they were Fairies.

Verdant Green Maiden left Liu An after advising him to write storybooks, then returned to Mount Tai and appointed Chunyu Tiying as its Medicine Dispensing Female Immortal. In Pingyang County, she heard a weeping girl called Wei Ao and stopped to look at her.

• Liu An welcomed Verdant Green Maiden and Hong Luan, recording Verdant Green Maiden's stories for years in exchange for meat.
• After Liu An became King of Huainan, Verdant Green Maiden departed and advised him to settle down and write storybooks.
• Verdant Green Maiden found Chunyu Tiying caring for refugees at Mount Tai under the Jade Maiden Empress's name and gave her the title of Medicine Dispensing Female Immortal.
• The legend of the Mount Tai Goddess spread during and after the Wu Chu Seven Kingdoms Rebellion, and people in Chang'an compared her to the Qing Xiao Jade Maiden.
• In Pingyang County, Verdant Green Maiden heard Wei Ao crying near the Pingyang Marquis Mansion and stopped when she heard the girl's name.

Verdant Green Maiden arranged for Wei Qing to inherit Han Xin’s military teachings, then left Pingyang County after Liu Che’s accession and visited Liu An in Shouchun. The chapter ends with Liu An welcoming her as the Jade Maiden Empress.

• Verdant Green Maiden met Wei Ao, learned she was pregnant with Wei Qing, and promised to teach the child when he grew up.
• Verdant Green Maiden took young Wei Qing to Han Xin’s tomb, named Han Xin as his true teacher, and gave him military books to study.
• Wei Qing trained against Verdant Green Maiden in strategic contests while she supported the Wei Family.
• After Liu Qi died and Liu Che became Emperor, Verdant Green Maiden left Pingyang County and promised Wei Qing she would return in a few years.
• Verdant Green Maiden visited Liu An’s palace in Shouchun and found a scroll containing the legends she had told and an account of herself.
• Liu An entered and greeted Verdant Green Maiden as the Jade Maiden Empress.

Qing Nv killed Liu An after he tried to pressure her into supporting him, then dealt with members of the Yin Yang School among his retainers. She returned to Mount Tai, where Chunyu Tiying remained devoted to her, and learned that Emperor Liu Che planned to visit Huainan.

• Liu An offered Qing Nv Huainan’s riches and an officially sanctioned temple in exchange for her aid, so she froze him to death.
• Qing Nv ate tofu pudding in Shouchun, then went to the palace and ordered Liu An’s Three Thousand Retainers to identify members of the Yin Yang School.
• Qing Nv sent the identified Yin Yang School Members to Mount Xiao to feed the wolves and returned to Mount Tai.
• Chunyu Tiying explained that she had stayed on Mount Tai to spread the Jade Maiden’s name, then later went down the mountain to offer free medical care.
• Chunyu Tiying returned with news that Emperor Liu Che planned an Eastern Tour to Huainan, and Qing Nv pounced on her after she praised the punishment of Liu An.

After Liu Che's Mount Tai sacrifice strengthened Verdant Green Maiden's divine position, she spent several months severing its ties of fate. She later went to Yong City, where she reunited with Afang and mourned her death alongside the passing of Qin Wang Ziying.

• Liu Che uncovered Liu An's rebellion, abolished the Huainan Kingdom, and stopped at Mount Tai, where Chunyu Tiying barred him from climbing the mountain.
• Liu Che sacrificed to the Mount Tai Goddess at the mountain's foot, making Verdant Green Maiden's divine position real and strengthening her Auspicious Fortune.
• Verdant Green Maiden secluded herself for several months and severed the new threads of fate while Hong Luan watched over her.
• Verdant Green Maiden traveled to Chang'an, learned that Qin Wang Ziying had died, and went to Yong City to see his funeral and reunite with Afang.
• Verdant Green Maiden stayed with Afang until Afang died a few months later, then watched her receive a tomb second only to Ziying's.

Verdant Green Maiden joined Zhang Qian’s mission to the Western Regions and revealed her power when Xiongnu Cavalry attacked. After learning the Great Yuezhi had moved farther west, Zhang Qian sent envoys to contact the region’s kingdoms while he pursued the Great Yuezhi, and Verdant Green Maiden stayed behind.

• Verdant Green Maiden followed Zhang Qian’s delegation from Yong City and persuaded him to let her join his westward journey.
• Zhang Qian’s party crossed the Yellow River into the Hexi Corridor and encountered Xiongnu Cavalry, whom Verdant Green Maiden froze and killed with a blast of White Frost Snow Wind.
• Zhang Qian and the delegation recognized Verdant Green Maiden as the Qing Xiao Jade Maiden and continued west with her protection, taking the Xiongnu horses they encountered.
• Zhang Qian learned that the Great Yuezhi had migrated farther west, then split his delegation to contact the Western Regions’ kingdoms while he and Tangyifu pursued the Great Yuezhi.
• Verdant Green Maiden remained in the Western Regions and thought of the plentiful food there for Bird Sister.

Verdant Green Maiden accompanied Zhang Qian and envoys from the Western Regions to Chang'an, where Liu Che summoned her and asked for help against Xiongnu. She left Liu Che unconscious with a punch, then heard him insist that Han would attack Xiongnu even without divine aid.

• At Dayuan, Verdant Green Maiden encouraged Zhang Qian after he learned Great Yuezhi would not return and pointed out that the Western Regions could support Han.
• Zhang Qian led more than a thousand envoys toward Chang'an, and Verdant Green Maiden repelled several Xiongnu Cavalry raids along the way.
• Liu Che granted Zhang Qian the title Marquis of Bowang and ordered a search for the Heavenly Maiden accompanying the envoys.
• Verdant Green Maiden arrived at Changle Palace, where Wei Qing recognized her as his master, and punched Liu Che unconscious.
• After Liu Che woke, he asked Verdant Green Maiden to aid his planned war against Xiongnu, but she questioned whether he lacked confidence without divine help.
• Liu Che declared that Han would attack Xiongnu regardless of divine aid, saying the dynasty had waited seventy years for the chance.

Verdant Green Maiden tried to help Liu Che secure an alliance with the Western Regions Countries, then rushed to hold back a catastrophic Yellow River flood. After she collapsed, Hong Luan helped guide the people to safety, and Verdant Green Maiden woke months later to learn that most had survived.

• Verdant Green Maiden told Liu Che that people had to save themselves, then agreed to urge the Western Regions Countries to ally with the Great Han after accepting his feast.
• Verdant Green Maiden noticed the Yellow River swelling and broke free of Hong Luan to slow the flood, despite the danger of defying the Mandate of Heaven.
• Verdant Green Maiden raised ice walls to protect the people, but the Yellow River shattered them, and she exhausted herself and collapsed.
• Hong Luan carried Verdant Green Maiden to safety and sent Qing Niao to guide the people toward shelter beneath the Mount Tai Mountain Range.
• Verdant Green Maiden woke months later and learned from Hong Luan that most people had survived and Ti Ying was caring for them.

Verdant Green Maiden led disaster victims across the Central Plains to clear flood damage and ease the famine, declaring that the people’s support—not a ruler’s temples—shaped a dynasty’s fortune. After Heaven warned her not to change fate again, she agreed to meet Liu Che in Chang’an and set out with Chunyu Tiying and Hong Luan.

• Verdant Green Maiden traveled through Mount Tai, comforting refugees and deciding with Chunyu Tiying and Hong Luan to leave the mountain and help people across the Central Plains.
• Verdant Green Maiden led disaster victims in clearing silt and rebuilding flood-ravaged lands over several months.
• At the Yellow River, Verdant Green Maiden explained to Hong Luan that a dynasty’s fortune came from the people’s support and prayed for the river to calm.
• Han soldiers told Verdant Green Maiden that Wei Qing had won a Great Victory at Dragon City and invited her to Chang’an on Liu Che’s orders.
• Verdant Green Maiden heard Heaven warn her not to change fate again, agreed to visit Liu Che, and returned to Mount Tai to sleep before departing for Chang’an with Chunyu Tiying and Hong Luan.

Verdant Green Maiden left the Han court’s family affairs and traveled the Central Plains, where a children’s rhyme inspired her to claim the role of Yellow River Earl. Ten years later, she visited Liu Che and Wei Zifu’s newborn son, Liu Ju, and met a boy named Qu Bing.

• Verdant Green Maiden left Changle Palace after Chen Ajiao challenged her presence at the family banquet, and Liu Che rebuked Chen Ajiao for insulting the Han Dynasty’s honored Goddess.
• As villagers repeatedly recognized and crowded around Verdant Green Maiden, she sent Chunyu Tiying ahead so she could travel more quietly with Hong Luan.
• In Xin Zheng, Verdant Green Maiden heard children’s rhyme about the River Earl and declared that she would become the Yellow River Earl herself.
• Ten years later, Verdant Green Maiden and Hong Luan visited Liu Che and Wei Zifu, who introduced their firstborn son, Liu Ju.
• A ten-year-old boy named Qu Bing entered the hall, and Verdant Green Maiden asked who he was.

Verdant Green Maiden took Huo Qu Bing as her student and allowed Chen Ajiao to serve her in Changmen Palace for seven years. As Huo Qu Bing joined the Han campaign against the Xiongnu, Verdant Green Maiden left the palace and rode with the army into Hexi, where the generals prepared to drive the Xiongnu out of the corridor.

• Wei Zifu introduced Huo Qu Bing to Verdant Green Maiden, who agreed to teach him and settled in Changmen Palace.
• After learning that Wei Zifu had given birth to a prince, Chen Ajiao asked to serve Verdant Green Maiden, who let her stay.
• Seven years later, Huo Qu Bing became General of Cavalry and set out with the Han army to attack the Xiongnu.
• Verdant Green Maiden told Chen Ajiao that she and Liu Che were never meant to have children together, then gave her permission to leave the palace.
• Chen Ajiao left the palace, and Liu Che named her Wannian Princess and assigned her to care for the Qing Xiao Jade Maiden Temple in Chang'an.
• Verdant Green Maiden joined Wei Qing and Huo Qu Bing in the campaign through Hexi as the Han generals planned to drive the Xiongnu from the corridor.

Huo Qu Bing won fame for his swift victories against the Xiongnu, but as his health declined, Verdant Green Maiden confronted Heaven over his destined death. Heaven warned her that saving him would defy fate and bring consequences, but she remained determined to save him.

• Huo Qu Bing led eight hundred men into the Hexi Corridor and returned with thousands of Xiongnu heads and several captives, earning the title Marquis of Champion and promotion to General of Cavalry.
• Huo Qu Bing campaigned across the frontier and deep into Mobei, while Verdant Green Maiden watched his health worsen despite Chunyu Tiying's care.
• At Mount Langjuxu, Verdant Green Maiden threatened to bury Mobei in snow unless Heaven answered her, and Heaven appeared to stop her.
• Verdant Green Maiden accused Heaven of causing Huo Qu Bing's illness, but Heaven said his death was a tribulation Han had to endure.
• Heaven warned Verdant Green Maiden that changing fate would bring consequences, but she insisted she would save Huo Qu Bing.

Verdant Green Maiden tried to save Huo Qu Bing from his fated death, but Heaven diverted her into battling widespread disasters and warned her that changing fate carried a price. After Huo Qu Bing died on campaign, she returned to Mount Tai and slept for twenty-six years, waking to a blood-red sky and a strong scent of blood from the Chang'an Qing Xiao Jade Maiden Temple.

• Verdant Green Maiden tried to persuade Liu Che to keep Huo Qu Bing in Chang'an, but a Colonel brought news of droughts, floods, and locusts, and she left to manage the disasters.
• Verdant Green Maiden moved floodwaters from Kanto to Shu while Hong Luan fought the western locust plague, and Heaven warned Verdant Green Maiden that every change carried a price.
• Heaven told Verdant Green Maiden to return to Mount Tai and gave her an exhausted Hong Luan, who had overexerted herself stopping the locust plague.
• Huo Qu Bing marched beyond the frontier, fell ill, and died despite medicine, and Verdant Green Maiden returned to Mount Tai.
• Verdant Green Maiden slept for twenty-six years, then woke to a blood-red sunset and smelled blood coming from the Chang'an Qing Xiao Jade Maiden Temple.

After the witchcraft crisis devastated Chang'an, Qing Nü helped secure Liu Ju’s return and urged Liu Che to end the fighting. Liu Ju later became emperor, while Qing Nü returned to Mount Tai, where Chunyu Tiying told her another emperor had died.

• Wei Zifu asked Qing Nü to spare Liu Ju, then took her own life after Qing Nü promised to do what she could.
• Liu Che met Qing Nü, who challenged his belief in witchcraft and ordered him to go to Yong City himself and stop the violence in Chang'an.
• Liu Che brought back the gravely wounded Liu Ju, whose family had been almost entirely killed; Qing Nü later comforted the people of Chang'an and reunited with Chen Ajiao.
• Liu Che asked Qing Nü to teach Liu Bingyi, but she refused; after Liu Che died, Liu Ju became emperor and ordered Wei Zifu buried in the Wan Nian Mausoleum.
• Qing Nü returned to Mount Tai and studied medicine with Chunyu Tiying for over a decade, but continued to struggle with it.
• Chunyu Tiying returned from the mountain and told Qing Nü that the emperor had died again.

Verdant Green Maiden sensed a call from Xiao Mountain and met an ancient Giant Wolf who offered to serve as her mount. After she named him Jingang, she and her companions ate the offerings at Qing Xiao Jade Maiden Temple, prompting Liu Bingyi to bring more meat and meet the Jade Maiden Empress.

• Verdant Green Maiden saw Liu Bingyi's rising fortune and left Mount Tai with Hong Luan and Chunyu Tiying to seek food at his offering ceremony.
• On Xiao Mountain, Verdant Green Maiden met a Giant Wolf who explained that her past offerings had helped his clan gain the ability to take Human Form.
• The Giant Wolf offered to repay Verdant Green Maiden by becoming her mount, and she named him Jingang.
• Verdant Green Maiden and her companions ate the temple offerings, leaving a bamboo slip asking for more food.
• After confirming the slip's handwriting, Liu Bingyi and Huo Guang brought fresh meat to Qing Xiao Jade Maiden Temple, where Liu Bingyi paid his respects to Verdant Green Maiden.

Verdant Green Maiden left Chang'an for the Western Regions after learning that the Xiongnu were attacking Wusun and other countries. After villagers recognized her as the Heavenly Maiden and she treated their injuries, she arrived at a besieged Wusun city on Jingang's back.

• Liu Bingyi left Verdant Green Maiden at the Qing Xiao Jade Maiden Temple and continued sending her meat, while Huo Guang described her as kind but resolute.
• After a messenger from Princess Jieyou reported the Xiongnu's oppression of the Western Regions, Verdant Green Maiden decided to travel there with Hong Luan, Chunyu Tiying, and Jingang.
• Jingang carried the group across the Hexi Corridor, where a merchant from Dayuan recognized Verdant Green Maiden as the Heavenly Mountain Saintess.
• Villagers welcomed Verdant Green Maiden as their Heavenly Maiden, and she and Chunyu Tiying treated their injured before continuing toward Wusun.
• As Xiongnu soldiers attacked a Wusun city, Verdant Green Maiden arrived on Jingang and leaped over the cavalry.

Verdant Green Maiden helped the Wusun repel the Xiongnu and supported Princess Liu Jieyou in forming a Western Regions alliance. After the alliance captured the Right Guli King, he mistook Verdant Green Maiden for the Sky God, and she asked whether he believed in her.

• Verdant Green Maiden landed at a Wusun city with Chunyu Tiying after the Sky Wolf scattered the Xiongnu cavalry, then asked to be guided to Chigu City.
• In Chigu City, Verdant Green Maiden met Weng Guimi and Liu Jieyou, told Weng Guimi she would not defeat the Xiongnu alone, and privately advised Liu Jieyou to seek troops from the Western Regions Countries.
• Verdant Green Maiden sent the Wolf Brothers to help Liu Jieyou secure an allied army, and Liu Jieyou thanked her for supporting the cause she had devoted herself to.
• Guided by Verdant Green Maiden, Weng Guimi led the allied army to the Right Guli King's Royal Court, where they captured him.
• The Right Guli King called Verdant Green Maiden the Sky God and asked whether the god had abandoned the Xiongnu, so Verdant Green Maiden had his words translated and asked if he believed in her.

Verdant Green Maiden helped establish the Western Regions Xiongnu Kingdom and supported the creation of Great Han’s Western Regions Protectorate before returning to Mount Tai. Many years later, she answered a summons to Wusun and found Liu Jieyou old and past seventy.

• Verdant Green Maiden made the Right Guli King choose between settling near Heavenly Mountain and migrating west; he stayed and became Tianshan Chanyu of the Western Regions Xiongnu Kingdom.
• With the Right Guli King’s help, Great Han defeated the weakened Xiongnu, while more Xiongnu people settled in the Western Regions Kingdom.
• Zheng Ji established the Western Regions Protectorate at Wulei City with support from Wusun and the Xiongnu Kingdom, while Liu Jieyou chose to remain and serve Great Han.
• Verdant Green Maiden returned to Mount Tai, where Hong Luan tended Western Regions fruit seeds and Jingang carried water; they harvested fruit and made snacks and candied fruit.
• Many years later, Verdant Green Maiden returned to Wusun after hearing a summons and found Liu Jieyou past seventy.

Verdant Green Maiden returned Liu Jieyou to Han and later learned that Liu Xun had erased the records of her ties to the dynasty to protect her from future emperors. After Liu Xun died and Han’s fortunes waned, she left Chang’an to aid disaster victims and witnessed Wang Zhaojun’s marriage procession cross the frontier into Xiongnu territory.

• Verdant Green Maiden took Liu Jieyou back to Great Han, then asked Chunyu Tiying to accompany her around the world.
• Verdant Green Maiden visited Wei Qing and Huo Qu Bing at Maoling and left them offerings from the Western Regions.
• After Liu Jieyou died, Verdant Green Maiden read Liu Xun’s letter and learned he had ordered records of her connection to Han removed to protect her from future emperors.
• Verdant Green Maiden visited the dying Liu Xun, thanked him, and stayed in Chang’an to see him off as Han’s fortunes began to decline.
• The following year, Verdant Green Maiden traveled among disaster-stricken regions and helped refugees.
• Verdant Green Maiden saw Wang Zhaojun’s marriage procession pass through Yanmen Pass into Xiongnu territory.