Recaps

Tang Shiba refused to apologize to Ouyang Xuan, attacked her instead, and was ordered confined to her room. After returning to her courtyard, she rebuffed Tang Xuan’s attempt to make peace, while her system detected a possible system inside Ouyang Xuan.

• General Tang and Madam Song demanded that Tang Shiba apologize to Ouyang Xuan, but Tang Shiba insisted Ouyang Xuan owed her an apology for nearly drowning her.
• When General Tang threatened to send Tang Shiba to the army camp, she grabbed Ouyang Xuan by the hair and slapped her until she fainted.
• General Tang ordered the guards to confine Tang Shiba, and Madam Song called for a physician for Ouyang Xuan.
• Tang Shiba’s system detected an energy fluctuation and suggested that Ouyang Xuan might have another system.
• Tang Xuan visited Tang Shiba’s courtyard, scolded her for hitting Ouyang Xuan, and offered her a dress if she would stop opposing her cousin.
• Tang Shiba dismissed Tang Xuan and shut the door, while he threatened to make her regret it.

Tang Shiba learned that Ouyang Xuan and Si Wuyu had also traveled to ancient times, then discovered Ouyang Xuan was targeting Tang Xuan to steal the Tang family’s fortune. Her family decided to send her to the Military Camp, where she accepted the plan while warning in her thoughts that Ouyang Xuan could bring the household to ruin.

• The system told Tang Shiba that its increased power had accidentally sent them through time and that Ouyang Xuan and Si Wuyu were there too, though it could not locate Si Wuyu.
• Tang Shiba went to the front hall and learned that Ouyang Xuan had bound herself to a fortune system that would kill her if she failed its missions.
• Ouyang Xuan played on Madam Song’s sympathy, and Tang Cheng agreed to take Tang Shiba to the Military Camp after she finished eating.
• Tang Cheng, Madam Song, and Tang Xuan realized they could hear Tang Shiba’s thoughts, while Tang Xuan blushed when she thought he liked Ouyang Xuan.
• Tang Shiba threw food at Tang Xuan, then calmly agreed to go to the Military Camp and thought that Ouyang Xuan would ruin the Tang family if she married into it.

Tang Shiba went to the military camp after Ouyang Xuan fainted before she could apologize, then stirred up gossip about Tang Cheng favoring his niece. Tang Cheng confronted her and overheard her warning that Ouyang Xuan planned to compromise his eldest son at the Princess's Residence.

• Tang Shiba agreed to apologize to Ouyang Xuan to avoid the military camp, but Ouyang Xuan fainted as soon as she approached.
• Tang Cheng took Tang Shiba to the military camp, where she changed into men's clothes and joined the soldiers' training.
• Tang Shiba told the soldiers that Ouyang Xuan was jealous of her family and savings, and that her parents favored her cousin over her.
• After learning about the rumors, Tang Cheng went to confront Tang Shiba and heard her say Ouyang Xuan intended to compromise his eldest son at the Princess's Residence.

Tang Shiba tricked Tang Cheng into taking her to the Princess's Residence, where he learned that Tang Xuan and Ouyang Xuan had been caught together at the Elder Princess's Flower-Viewing Banquet. Tang Cheng offered to take responsibility by marrying them, but the Elder Princess warned that the marriage would end Tang Xuan's prospects at court, and Tang Cheng vowed to send him to guard the border forever.

• Tang Cheng confronted Tang Shiba for spreading family rumors, but she bit his wrist during an arm-wrestling challenge and won his promise to take her back.
• Tang Shiba asked Tang Cheng to stop at the Princess's Residence, where he heard from departing guests that something had happened to Tang Xuan and Ouyang Xuan.
• Tang Cheng rushed before the Elder Princess and learned that Tang Xuan and Ouyang Xuan had been caught together during her banquet.
• Ouyang Xuan claimed Tang Xuan had dragged her away, while Tang Shiba's thoughts revealed that Ouyang Xuan had arranged the drugging and the witnesses.
• Tang Cheng offered to take responsibility for Ouyang Xuan, but the Elder Princess warned that marrying her would cost Tang Xuan his place in the Imperial Court.
• Tang Cheng promised that Tang Xuan would marry Ouyang Xuan and guard the border for the rest of his life, shocking Tang Xuan.

After Ouyang Xuan agreed to marry Tang Xuan, Tang Shiba discovered that Ouyang Xuan planned to ruin his reputation and helped her family uncover the scheme. The family interrupted Ouyang Xuan’s attempt to visit South Wind House, and Tang Shiba was pulled away just after entering it.

• The Grand Princess ordered Ouyang Xuan and Tang Xuan to marry, leaving Tang Xuan distraught over losing his chance to earn military merit.
• Ouyang Xuan’s system told her to spread the story of the engagement to ruin Tang Xuan’s reputation, while Melon System secretly copied their plans.
• Tang Xuan chose to trust Ouyang Xuan when she claimed her actions were for him and the general's household.
• Tang Shiba left the carriage to follow Ouyang Xuan, and Tang Cheng and Tang Xuan followed as well.
• Tang Shiba’s inner voice revealed that Ouyang Xuan was taking Madam Song to South Wind House, so Tang Cheng stopped them and took everyone home.
• Tang Shiba entered South Wind House, intending to look for Si Wuyu, but someone pulled her back out and asked why she was there so late.

Tang Xuan followed Ouyang Xuan and discovered she had secretly gone out, while Tang Shiba’s inner voice revealed that Ouyang Xuan had spread rumors about him. The next morning, Tang Xuan opened the General’s Residence gate to confront the crowd and was immediately pelted with a rotten egg.

• Tang Shiba threw Tang Xuan over her shoulder outside South Wind House, then left when she remembered Si Wuyu was still missing.
• Back at the residence, Tang Shiba ignored Tang Xuan, then sneaked out over the wall after hearing that Ouyang Xuan had gone out.
• Tang Xuan followed Ouyang Xuan through the back gate to Fragrant Water Residence and realized she had gone out to hire people to spread rumors.
• The next morning, Tang Shiba revealed that rumors about Tang Xuan and his cousin at the eldest princess’s flower-viewing banquet had spread through the capital.
• Tang Xuan ignored Tang Cheng’s warning and opened the gate, where a crowd threw a rotten egg at him.

Tang Shiba arranged for officials to expose the paid troublemakers at the Tang residence, while Tang Xuan and Madam Song continued protecting Ouyang Xuan. Tang Xuan decided to seek a frontier posting, unaware that Ouyang Xuan was looking for a powerful backer so she could break off their marriage and leave him disgraced.

• Tang Xuan returned inside after being hit with an egg, and Tang Shiba’s thoughts revealed that Ouyang Xuan was pretending to be ill and planning to target the Tang family.
• Tang Shiba left to investigate the food, while Tang Xuan learned that his parents had also been unable to speak normally and Tang Cheng refused to report the egg-throwing to the authorities.
• Tang Shiba told Chunjuan what to do, and officials arrived to arrest the people causing trouble after receiving a report that they had been paid.
• Lord Cao said the person who paid the troublemakers belonged to the Tang household, but Tang Xuan took the blame to protect Ouyang Xuan, and the officials left.
• Tang Xuan asked Madam Song to arrange his wedding before he left for the frontier, while Tang Shiba’s thoughts revealed Ouyang Xuan was seeking a powerful backer to escape marrying him.

Tang Shiba took Tang Xuan boating, where her gossip-sharing voice exposed Ouyang Xuan’s plan to stage an attack and rescue Prime Minister Su. After Tang Xuan accidentally disrupted the assassination, he identified Ouyang Xuan’s boat to Prime Minister Su’s men.

• Tang Xuan paid for a luxurious boat trip after Tang Shiba agreed to take him along.
• Tang Shiba’s gossip-sharing voice revealed that Ouyang Xuan had hired an assassin to attack Prime Minister Su and planned to rescue him afterward.
• Tang Shiba threw Tang Xuan onto Prime Minister Su’s boat as the assassin attacked, and Prime Minister Su killed the assassin.
• Prime Minister Su’s men guarded the shore and detained the boaters, while Ouyang Xuan worried that her plan had been exposed.
• Tang Xuan explained that someone had thrown him onto the prime minister’s boat and pointed out Ouyang Xuan’s boat.

Tang Shiba was recognized as the person who saved the prime minister, who offered her a reward, while Ouyang Xuan tried to prevent her from gaining his protection. After Tang Cheng ordered Tang Shiba confined for misleading him about the lake incident, she resisted, still intent on collecting her reward.

• The prime minister realized Ouyang Xuan could not have thrown Tang Xuan, and Tang Xuan corrected himself by pointing to Tang Shiba’s boat.
• Tang Shiba met the prime minister, who concluded she had saved him and asked what reward she wanted, while Ouyang Xuan tried to discredit her.
• Ouyang Xuan deliberately fell into the lake, and Tang Xuan jumped in after her, disrupting the prime minister’s conversation with Tang Shiba.
• Back at the General's Residence, Tang Shiba told Tang Cheng that Ouyang Xuan and Tang Xuan had gone swimming, while her inner thoughts blamed Ouyang Xuan for dragging Tang Xuan into the water.
• After a servant reported what had happened on the lake, Tang Cheng ordered Tang Shiba confined, but she beat the servants sent to escort her and continued enjoying gossip.

Tang Cheng and Madam Song discovered that Xiaocui had been licking Tang Cheng’s cups and food, and Madam Song sent her away after beating her. The next day, Tang Shiba refused to help her family and went to the Chancellor’s Residence, where she unexpectedly thought the prime minister was several months pregnant.

• Tang Cheng vomited after learning Xiaocui had been licking his cups and food, and Madam Song slapped Xiaocui until she confessed.
• Madam Song sent Xiaocui away and kicked Tang Cheng out of their room, while Tang Shiba’s thoughts hinted at more romantic trouble ahead.
• Tang Shiba refused her family’s request to help Tang Xuan, grabbed his ear, and left despite their protests.
• Ouyang Xuan wondered whether her uncle would take the bait for her mission and suspected Tang Shiba would cause trouble.
• Tang Shiba visited the Chancellor’s Residence, where the prime minister greeted her before her thoughts about his pregnancy made him choke.

Susan learned she might be pregnant by Tang Cheng and paid Tang Shiba five hundred taels, while Tang Shiba sabotaged Ouyang Xuan’s plan to frame Tang Cheng by turning the staged rescue into a chaotic street brawl. Tang Cheng escaped the women clinging to him just as his wife arrived, after overhearing Tang Shiba’s teasing thoughts about him.

• Susan asked Tang Shiba how much silver she wanted after hearing she might be pregnant by Tang Cheng, then paid her five hundred taels.
• Tang Shiba learned Ouyang Xuan planned to spread rumors that Tang Cheng kept a mistress and enlisted beggars to publicize a staged encounter at the Good Fortune Teahouse.
• A crowd gathered to watch Tang Cheng, but the staged beatings sparked a street-wide brawl as people competed to become his mistress.
• Women swarmed Tang Cheng, clung to him, and tried to pull off his clothes while Tang Shiba laughed and Ouyang Xuan watched her plan fall apart.
• Tang Shiba announced that Tang Cheng’s wife was approaching with soldiers, and Tang Cheng threw off the women before his wife arrived and heard his daughter’s teasing thoughts.

Madam Song decided to send Ouyang Xuan to the country estate unless she agreed to marry Tang Xuan, while Tang Shiba went to ask the chancellor for an imperial marriage decree. Tang Shiba’s arrival also revealed Ouyang Xuan’s plots and the chancellor’s pregnancy to the Second Prince.

• Madam Song took Tang Cheng home after another scheme involving Ouyang Xuan failed, and Ouyang Xuan lashed out at beggars who called her an evil spirit.
• Tang Shiba learned that Madam Song’s disappointment had risen to fifty percent and Tang Cheng’s to thirty percent, then decided to go find the chancellor.
• Madam Song proposed sending Ouyang Xuan to the country estate, but Tang Cheng suggested asking His Majesty to decree her marriage to Tang Xuan.
• Tang Shiba’s thoughts revealed the chancellor’s pregnancy to Li Xiao, the Second Prince, who confronted the chancellor about it.
• Tang Shiba asked the chancellor to help obtain an imperial marriage decree for her eldest brother.

After the Emperor decreed Ouyang Xuan and Tang Xuan’s marriage and ordered them to the border, Tang Shiba mocked Ouyang Xuan and worried about her missing coachman. She later learned Lord Yang had a personal history with Tang Cheng’s wife, leaving Tang Xuan stunned by his parents’ reactions.

• The Emperor ordered Ouyang Xuan and Tang Xuan to marry within ten days and leave for the border the day after their wedding.
• Tang Shiba teased Ouyang Xuan about the border and warned Tang Xuan that his bride might escape, prompting Ouyang Xuan to faint after he defended Shiba.
• Tang Shiba wondered whether Si Wuyu had been reborn as a noble and decided to find a chance to look inside the palace.
• The system revealed that Ouyang Xuan had used modern knowledge to attract a wastrel whose father, Lord Yang, oversaw the Ministry of Justice and was Tang Cheng’s sworn enemy.
• Tang Shiba inferred that Lord Yang had once loved Tang Cheng’s wife, and Tang Xuan noticed his father’s anger and his mother’s silence.

Tang Shiba discovered Ouyang Xuan and Yang Jinzhou were plotting against the General's Residence, then followed Yang Jinzhou and exposed his nighttime antics to a crowd. The next morning, Ouyang Xuan came to see Tang Shiba, and the system revealed she wanted Tang Shiba to attend a meetup in her place.

• Tang Shiba learned that Ouyang Xuan and Yang Jinzhou might frame the General's Residence for treason and planned to meet the next day.
• Tang Shiba followed Yang Jinzhou to the Yang Residence and watched him sneak outside in his underpants, pretending to sleepwalk.
• A crowd gathered to see Yang Jinzhou, but Tang Shiba left when his servants came out and ran into the furious Tang Xuan.
• Tang Xuan scolded Tang Shiba for staying out late after Chunjuan had feared she was missing.
• The next morning, Ouyang Xuan came to see Tang Shiba, and the system said Ouyang Xuan wanted Tang Shiba to take her place at a meetup.

Tang Shiba discovered Ouyang Xuan’s plan to drug her and catch her with Young Master Yang, then turned the scheme against Ouyang Xuan’s maid Chunmei. The chapter ended with Chunjuan pinning Young Master Yang down as Ouyang Xuan told the gathered crowd that her cousin had been caught secretly meeting a man.

• Tang Shiba agreed to let Ouyang Xuan leave with Chunjuan while she waited at a teahouse with Chunmei.
• Tang Shiba noticed Chunmei secretly pour undissolved drugs into her tea and forced Chunmei to drink it instead.
• Young Master Yang entered the private room, and the drugged Chunmei clung to him and asked him for help.
• Ouyang Xuan and Chunjuan arrived, and Chunjuan attacked Young Master Yang while Tang Shiba urged her on from hiding.
• Ouyang Xuan addressed the crowd and claimed that her cousin had been secretly meeting a man.

Chunjuan exposed Ouyang Xuan’s attempt to frame Tang Shiba, while the scheme instead disgraced Chunmei and revealed Ouyang Xuan’s connection to Young Master Yang. The crowd learned Ouyang Xuan was already bound by an imperial marriage decree to Tang Xuan, and Young Master Yang fled in disgrace.

• Chunjuan covered the woman on the bed and revealed that she was Chunmei, accusing Ouyang Xuan of drugging her and plotting to frame Tang Shiba.
• Chunjuan identified Ouyang Xuan as the person who had exchanged letters with Young Master Yang, and the onlookers condemned her for framing her cousin.
• Young Master Yang recognized Ouyang Xuan as his correspondent and embraced her, while Chunjuan exposed their apparent affair.
• Chunmei woke and accused Miss Tang of setting her up, but the crowd concluded Ouyang Xuan had arranged the trap and targeted Tang Shiba.
• A spectator revealed that Ouyang Xuan’s marriage to Tang Xuan had been decreed by the emperor, and Young Master Yang escaped the crowd in disheveled clothes.

Tang Cheng exposed Ouyang Xuan’s schemes, confined her, and ordered Chunmei sold, while Tang Shiba learned the Yang Family planned to exploit the Ouyang Family’s crimes. Tang Cheng moved Ouyang Xuan’s wedding to Tang Xuan forward, and the emperor rejected Yang Jinzhou’s attempt to separate her from the General’s Residence.

• Tang Cheng rejected Ouyang Xuan’s claims that Chunjuan had framed her, confined her to the rear courtyard, and ordered Chunmei sold to the Spring Breeze House.
• Tang Shiba learned that Yang Jinzhou planned to use the Ouyang Family’s corruption to force Tang Cheng to hand Ouyang Xuan over, so Tang Cheng announced the wedding would take place in three days.
• Yang Jinzhou objected when his son said he had fallen for Ouyang Xuan, then decided to bring charges against Tang Cheng and get her out of the General’s Residence.
• At court, the emperor refused to revoke Ouyang Xuan’s marriage decree, and Yang Jinzhou threatened Tang Cheng afterward.
• Tang Cheng asked Yang Jinzhou to lend him money for the wedding, but Yang Jinzhou walked away.

After learning that Yang Jinzhou wanted Tang Shiba to marry his wastrel son Yang Mingjie, Tang Shiba interrupted Yang Jinzhou’s fight with Tang Cheng and drove him from the General’s Residence with insults. Tang Cheng and Madam Song then worried that Yang Jinzhou might seek an imperial decree to force the marriage.

• Yang Jinzhou strutted through the Capital until gossip that his children might not be his spread, prompting him to hurry to the General’s Residence.
• Tang Shiba learned that Yang Jinzhou wanted her as Yang Mingjie’s principal wife and that Tang Cheng had refused, leading the two men to fight.
• Tang Shiba stormed into the front hall and insulted Yang Jinzhou until Tang Cheng struck him and Madam Song separated them.
• Yang Jinzhou fled the General’s Residence, and Tang Cheng praised Tang Shiba’s insults while telling her not to learn any more.
• Tang Cheng and Madam Song worried Yang Jinzhou might ask His Majesty to decree Tang Shiba’s marriage to Yang Mingjie.

Tang Shiba helped Ouyang Xuan escape, but Ouyang Xuan’s actions placed the General’s Residence in danger. As Tang Cheng prepared to expose Yang Jinzhou’s attempt to frame the family with hidden silver, he had the buried treasure dug up.

• Tang Shiba persuaded Chunjuan to distract the guards and unlock the courtyard, allowing Ouyang Xuan to escape.
• Tang Cheng learned that Ouyang Xuan had fled to the Yang Residence and that her family had implicated the General’s Residence.
• Tang Xuan begged Tang Cheng to cancel his marriage decree, and Tang Shiba revealed that Yang Jinzhou planned to plant silver in their residence.
• Tang Cheng ordered Tang Xuan to withdraw some soldiers and say they had gone searching for Ouyang Xuan.
• Yang Jinzhou mistakenly believed Tang Cheng thought Ouyang Xuan had eloped, unaware she was in the Ministry of Justice’s prison.
• Yang Jinzhou’s men buried sacks of silver in the rear courtyard, and Tang Cheng arrived with his men and ordered them to dig it up.

Yang Jinzhou searched the General's Residence, hoping to find illicit funds and frame Tang Cheng, but Tang Shiba’s decoy turned the search into a public humiliation. As Yang Jinzhou tried to arrest the household anyway, the Emperor arrived, leaving him on his knees.

• Yang Jinzhou arrived with soldiers to search Tang Cheng’s residence, and Tang Cheng agreed on the condition that Yang resign if the search found nothing.
• The crowd learned through Shiba’s thoughts that Yang Jinzhou had framed the household, then offered to testify against him.
• Yang Jinzhou’s men dug up Shiba’s realistic Oli Gei decoy, mistook it for buried gold at first, and fled in disgust.
• Yang Jinzhou admitted he had risked his own fortune to frame Tang Cheng and threatened to arrest everyone after citing the Ouyang couple’s testimony.
• Eunuch Lin announced the Emperor’s arrival, and Yang Jinzhou staggered to his knees.

Emperor Li Shihong exposed Yang Jinzhou’s plot to frame Tang Cheng and seized the one hundred thousand taels of silver. He rewarded the Tang family by voiding Tang Xuan’s engagement and agreeing to choose a husband for Tang Shiba, leaving her upset that she would have to go on blind dates.

• Li Shihong arrived at the General’s Residence, where Tang Cheng explained that Yang Jinzhou had accused him of embezzlement and ordered his courtyard dug up.
• Yang Jinzhou presented an accusation against Tang Cheng, but Eunuch Lin read a counter-accusation exposing Yang Jinzhou’s conspiracy with Ouyang Xuan.
• Li Shihong ordered Yang Jinzhou arrested and said he would lose his official position; Tang Shiba’s thoughts revealed that Ouyang Xuan was also under guard.
• Tang Cheng presented the recovered silver, and Li Shihong took it for disaster relief before asking Tang Cheng what reward he wanted.
• Tang Cheng asked Li Shihong to cancel Tang Xuan’s marriage, while Madam Song asked him to choose a husband for Tang Shiba; Li Shihong granted both requests.
• After Li Shihong left, Tang Shiba punched Tang Xuan for failing to ask the emperor to spare him from the Frontier and for leaving her to face blind dates.

Ouyang Xuan, Yang Jinzhou, and the Ouyang couple faced imprisonment after their scheme failed, while Ouyang Xuan’s system abandoned her and left her gravely weakened. Tang Shiba’s system repaired the fortune system, and Tang Shiba arrived with her family at the Empress Dowager’s birthday banquet, hoping to find Si Wuyu.

• Yang Jinzhou admitted the evidence against him was irrefutable, while Ouyang Xuan panicked as her system unbound and her health rapidly declined.
• Tang Shiba learned that Ouyang Xuan’s system had left her and watched Dumb System swallow the fortune system, which then repaired itself and canceled the mission.
• Tang Xuan prepared to leave for a border posting, and Tang Shiba reassured him that he might earn military merit.
• Eunuch Lin invited Tang Cheng and his family to the Empress Dowager’s birthday banquet, and Tang Shiba agreed to go so she could look for Si Wuyu.
• Tang Shiba and her family arrived at the palace, where the gathered guests watched them enter the hall.

At the empress dowager’s birthday banquet, Tang Shiba rejected every proposed match while her unspoken thoughts revealed scandalous secrets about the candidates and the Chancellor. She left the hall to investigate a rumor about the Third Prince writing a love letter, then encountered Li Yu in the Imperial Garden.

• The empress dowager offered to find Tang Shiba a husband, and Tang Shiba asked her to choose among the eligible men.
• Tang Shiba rejected Heir Qin, the Third Prince, Heir Jiang, the imperial uncle’s youngest son, and the crown prince after her thoughts exposed their secrets and flaws.
• Tang Shiba heard that the Third Prince was writing a love letter in the garden, pretended to need to change, and hurried there with Chunjuan.
• Tang Shiba and her system spotted Li Yu beside the pond, and Li Yu heard their conversation and felt an uncanny familiarity.

Tang Shiba reunited with the amnesiac Si Wuyu, who did not recognize her, but later asked her to reconsider and let him court her. Meanwhile, Tang Xuan softened after receiving a letter from Ouyang Xuan, and Tang Cheng went to plead with the emperor on their behalf.

• Tang Shiba overheard Li Xiao struggling to write a love letter, then collided with Si Wuyu in the imperial garden and learned he had amnesia.
• Tang Shiba hid her hurt and treated Si Wuyu like a stranger, while he felt drawn to her despite not remembering her.
• At the banquet, Li Yu learned Tang Shiba had rejected the proposed marriage and called him frigid and incapable of cherishing someone.
• After the banquet, Li Yu asked Tang Shiba to reconsider and said he wanted to court her; she fled, and he ordered a shadow guard to watch over her.
• Tang Shiba learned that Ouyang Xuan's letter had softened Tang Xuan, who knelt in the study until Tang Cheng agreed to plead with the emperor for him.
• Madam Song told Tang Shiba she wanted Ouyang Xuan's final wish to come true.

Tang Shiba rejected the General's Residence's troubles and let Li Yu court her, while Ouyang Xuan returned and threatened revenge. After Tang Shiba confronted Ouyang Xuan, she and Li Yu visited the Spring Breeze House, where they heard a dangerous rumor about the Elder Princess's mother.

• Tang Shiba refused to stop Ouyang Xuan from dragging the General's Residence into her downfall and went to a teahouse, where Li Yu arrived to court her.
• Tang Shiba tested Li Yu's abs and agreed to see how well he could care for her, prompting him to devote himself to serving her.
• Tang Cheng brought Ouyang Xuan back to the General's Residence, where she recognized Li Yu as Si Wuyu and blamed Tang Shiba for her failed mission.
• Ouyang Xuan accused Tang Shiba of shameless behavior, but Tang Shiba listed Ouyang Xuan's past schemes; Ouyang Xuan could not swear she was innocent and fainted.
• Tang Cheng told Madam Song that the Ouyang couple had confessed and would be exiled rather than have their property confiscated.
• Tang Shiba took Li Yu to the Spring Breeze House and heard that the Elder Princess's mother had once been its top courtesan.