Chapter Summaries

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.

Tang Shiba and Li Yu escaped the Spring Breeze House after soldiers moved to shut it down, and the Tang family expelled Ouyang Xuan after discovering her scheme. Tang Shiba headed to the Chancellor’s Residence, where she learned Lord Zhang was behind attacks on Susan.

• Ministers fled the Spring Breeze House after learning the Elder Princess’s mother had been a courtesan, and soldiers surrounded the building to suppress the secret.
• Li Yu carried Tang Shiba over the rooftops to help her escape, then escorted her back to the General’s Residence.
• Tang Shiba caught Ouyang Xuan hiding something in the kitchen, while Tang Xuan proposed sending their cousin away and the family agreed.
• Ouyang Xuan served drugged chicken soup, but Tang Xuan knocked away her ladle and ordered her out; she fainted after the family refused to let her stay.
• Tang Shiba went to the Chancellor’s Residence and learned Lord Zhang had targeted Susan since she injured his son, while new assassins threatened the Chancellor.

Tang Shiba and Li Yu married after the emperor approved their union, but she left the ancient world with Si Wuyu as the wedding ceremony ended. They returned to the hospital, where Si Wuyu welcomed her home.

• Susan raided the South Wind House and arrested officials, including Lord Zhang, for violating the court’s rules.
• Ouyang Xuan died on her way to ask the General’s Residence for money, and Tang Xuan left the capital with the Ouyang Family.
• Li Yu asked the emperor to decree his marriage to Tang Shiba, and the emperor later granted it.
• Li Yu reassured Tang Shiba that he wanted to make their relationship official, and they went shopping together.
• Tang Shiba and Li Yu held their wedding at the Crown Prince’s Residence, then Tang Shiba left the ancient world with Si Wuyu and returned to the hospital.