Recaps

Jiang Nuan discovered that the innkeeper had contaminated the meal with saliva and wolfdog excrement, then stopped Jiang Yunsheng from eating it. After resting, she watched from hiding as Jing Kingdom assassins arrived, only to find Jiang Yunsheng waiting for them in the courtyard.

• Guagua told Jiang Nuan that the innkeeper had secretly adulterated the food, and she spotted him watching through a hole in a second-floor window.
• Jiang Nuan tipped over the table to keep Jiang Yunsheng from eating, and Jiang Yunsheng had Shadow Guards prepare a fresh meal instead.
• Jiang Nuan slept until Guagua warned her that the Jing Kingdom attackers would arrive within an hour.
• Black-clad assassins surrounded the inn and entered the courtyard, where their leader discovered Jiang Yunsheng already waiting.
• Jiang Nuan watched the ambush from a hidden corner while eating pastries.

Jiang Nuan watched as assassins and disguised soldiers attacked Jiang Yunsheng, using her invisibility to trip one of the men in black. Jiang Yunsheng’s forces captured the attackers and exposed them as agents of the Jing Kingdom, then he ordered Jiang Yi to kill them.

• Jiang Nuan activated advanced Invisibility to avoid a man in black, then tripped him twice as a prank.
• Jiang Yunsheng’s group defeated the men in black, and soldiers who appeared to arrest them attacked Jiang Yunsheng’s forces instead.
• One of the soldiers fired a signal flare to summon reinforcements, unaware that Jiang Yunsheng’s side had already subdued them.
• The reinforcements arrived and pinned the soldiers to the ground, revealing that they were not on the attackers’ side.
• Jiang Yunsheng identified the captured men as agents of the Jing Kingdom and ordered Jiang Yi to kill them.

Jiang Nuan learned that Ran County Magistrate Zhong Feiwen had secretly resisted Jing Kingdom's control for twenty years, despite appearing to be its puppet. After Jiang Yunsheng questioned him, Zhong revealed that he had identified the infiltrators and hidden their names in a notebook.

• Jiang Yunsheng brought the captured Ran County soldiers to the County Magistrate's Residence and demanded that the magistrate appear.
• Jiang Nuan learned from Guagua that Zhong Feiwen had been forced into serving as a figurehead while secretly building a team against Jing Kingdom.
• Jiang Yunsheng realized Zhong might be innocent and questioned him about the soldiers who had tried to arrest him instead of confronting the black-clad assassins.
• Zhong Feiwen explained that Jing Kingdom had controlled him for twenty years and that he had secretly identified its agents in Ran County.
• Jiang Yunsheng ordered Jiang Yi to retrieve the list hidden beneath Zhong Feiwen's bed, and Jiang Yi returned with a small notebook.

Jiang Yunsheng purged Jing Kingdom agents in Ran County, announced tax relief and a free school, and spared Zhong Feiwen in exchange for three years of good governance. Zhong Feiwen then enlisted Jiang Nuan’s help to staff the county, though she was left holding a pile of local specialties.

• Guagua revealed that Nie Wenshan was the sole innocent person on Zhong Feiwen’s traitor list, while Jiang Yunsheng and Zhong Feiwen realized the danger of the mistake.
• Jiang Yunsheng ordered the Shadow Guards to investigate and arrest the people on the list, and they brought the suspects to the square.
• Jiang Yunsheng had the suspects’ crimes and punishments announced, then ordered the execution of a Jing Kingdom agent who threatened retaliation.
• Jiang Yunsheng promised Ran County three years without taxes and a free school for children under fifteen, then gave Zhong Feiwen three years to govern well.
• Zhong Feiwen worked through the night, sought outside help, and Jiang Nuan found suitable people for the posts before he handed her local specialties.

Jiang Nuan continued her journey, collecting gifts and local specialties while building schools, and learned that her actions had prevented the floods and plague from her previous life. Back among her companions, she noticed that everyone was avoiding her and struggled to discover why.

• Jiang Nuan accepted gifts from people she met, sent local specialties to her family and friends, and exchanged letters and gifts with Chi Hengji.
• Jiang Nuan calculated that she had enough silver to build another school and spent the next six months traveling without major trouble.
• Jiang Nuan learned that the floods from her previous life had not occurred and that the plague had therefore been avoided.
• Jiang Nuan caught Eunuch Wang trying to avoid her, and he offered contradictory excuses before fleeing.
• Jiang Nuan questioned Qiuyue about why she and Chunhua were taking turns accompanying her, and Qiuyue claimed Chunhua and then she herself had love interests.
• Jiang Nuan saw that the guards were also avoiding her and making the same excuse about having diarrhea, leaving her certain that something was wrong.

Jiang Nuan noticed that everyone around her was avoiding her and tried to uncover why, while Guagua hid the reason to preserve a surprise. After spotting several familiar figures, Jiang Nuan realized something, but the chapter ended before she explained what she had figured out.

• Jiang Nuan asked Guagua whether it was really a Gossip System and why people had started acting strangely toward her.
• Guagua concealed that the others were avoiding Jiang Nuan to keep a surprise secret, and Jiang Nuan decided to investigate instead of returning to her room.
• Jiang Nuan chased a familiar figure and suspected it was her brother, but Guagua persuaded her she might be mistaken.
• Jiang Nuan spotted Fourth Brother and Brother Chi and wondered why they were there.
• Jiang Nuan slapped a pillar and announced that she had figured something out, making Guagua nervous.

Jiang Nuan felt lonely after believing her family and friends were hiding from her, but Guagua led her to a surprise birthday celebration by the pond. Reunited with everyone who had traveled from Capital City, she ended the evening surrounded by their affection and sharing food.

• Jiang Nuan wandered by the lake, missed her family and friends, and went to sleep without dinner.
• Guagua told Jiang Nuan that her brothers and friends were gathered by the pond, so she dressed and went to investigate.
• Jiang Nuan found the pond decorated for her birthday, where Xiao Xiao, Jiang Chengze, Jiang Yehua, and the others greeted her and made her cry with happiness.
• Jiang Nuan learned that her loved ones had traveled from Capital City to celebrate her first birthday with them, and she chatted warmly with each of them.
• Eunuch Wang and the guards admitted their earlier excuses had been made up, and Cen Xue invited Jiang Nuan to eat after learning she had skipped dinner.

Jiang Nuan celebrated her birthday, received a special necklace from Guagua, and went to the market, where she met Chen Mo of Heaven and Earth Mountain. She agreed to visit the mountain with him and brought Cen Xue along, leaving Chen Mo stunned when he sensed her mysterious destiny too.

• Cen Xue gave Jiang Nuan longevity noodles, and Jiang Nuan celebrated her birthday with friends before wishing for everyone's safety and happiness.
• After waking, Jiang Nuan received a necklace from Guagua and opened her birthday gifts.
• Jiang Nuan visited the market and set up beside a fortune-teller, who recognized her as someone whose destiny could not be read.
• Guagua identified the fortune-teller as Chen Mo, Chen Wei's junior fellow disciple, and Chen Mo invited Jiang Nuan to Heaven and Earth Mountain.
• Jiang Nuan showed Chen Mo the jade pendant Chen Wei had given her and agreed to visit the mountain with Cen Xue.
• When Cen Xue arrived, Chen Mo exclaimed that she also had a mysterious destiny.

Jiang Nuan and Cen Xue agreed to accompany Chen Mo to Heaven and Earth Mountain after he identified them as people with Mysterious Fate. While Chen Mo finished telling fortunes at his stall, Jiang Nuan advised a mother how to find a safe home for her baby daughter, and Chen Mo witnessed the girl’s fate change.

• Jiang Nuan explained why Chen Mo had invited her to his Master's Sect, and Cen Xue learned that she too might have Mysterious Fate.
• Cen Xue agreed to go with Jiang Nuan to Heaven and Earth Mountain, but Chen Mo returned to his fortune-telling stall to serve the waiting customers.
• Jiang Nuan offered readings to people at the back of Chen Mo's queue, and a woman asked about her baby daughter's future.
• Jiang Nuan warned the woman against three prospective adoptive families and told her to place the baby in a wooden basin on the river the next day.
• A kindhearted elderly couple adopted the baby, and Chen Mo saw that her fate had changed.

Jiang Nuan outshone Chen Mo at fortune-telling, then traveled with him and Cen Xue to Heaven and Earth Mountain. They reached the Heaven and Earth Gate, where a disciple welcomed them after Chen Mo explained they were the people with mysterious destinies.

• Jiang Nuan exposed a thug's secret affairs and warned that the five women and their companions were waiting at his house.
• Chen Mo admitted Jiang Nuan was the better fortune-teller as the customers flocked to her queue.
• Jiang Nuan, Cen Xue, and Chen Mo left the county town and walked through the woods to the long ladder leading up the mountain.
• Jiang Nuan and Cen Xue chatted about cultivation trials and spiritual roots as they climbed with Chen Mo.
• A gatekeeper mistook Cen Xue for Chen Mo's sister-in-law, but Chen Mo clarified that she and Jiang Nuan were the people with mysterious destinies.

Jiang Nuan and Cen Xue visited the Heaven and Earth Gate, where Qingxu Zi explained that their unusual fates were known as Mysterious Fate. He revealed that people could hear Jiang Nuan’s inner thoughts, and Cen Xue admitted she had known but had been unable to warn her.

• Chen Mo brought Jiang Nuan and Cen Xue into the Heaven and Earth Gate after confirming they both had Mysterious Fate.
• Jiang Nuan learned that Chen Mo’s youngest junior brother had repeatedly mistaken people whose fates he could not read for those with Mysterious Fate.
• Qingxu Zi explained that Mysterious Fate belonged to people reborn or transported from another world, and said the Heaven and Earth Gate monitored them and eliminated those who committed crimes.
• Jiang Nuan and Cen Xue discussed their actions with Guagua in their minds while Qingxu Zi listened in alarm.
• Qingxu Zi told Jiang Nuan that others could hear her inner thoughts, and Cen Xue confirmed she had always heard them but had been prevented from warning her.

Jiang Nuan learned that some people had been able to hear her thoughts because of a system bug, which Guagua fixed and compensated her for with a storage space. She decided to keep her discovery secret while testing who could still hear her, and later used her thoughts to expose county magistrate Bian Xingguo’s corruption, leaving Jiang Yunsheng to respond by arranging roast chicken for her.

• Qingxu Zi confirmed that some people could hear Jiang Nuan’s thoughts, and Guagua reported that the system bug had been fixed and gave her control over it and a one-thousand-cubic-meter storage space.
• Jiang Nuan left Heaven and Earth Mountain with Cen Xue and asked her not to tell anyone that Jiang Nuan knew about the thought-leak.
• The next day, Jiang Nuan joined Jiang Yunsheng’s meeting with Bian Xingguo and silently learned from Guagua that the magistrate had stolen tax revenue and sent it to his brother-in-law.
• Jiang Nuan deliberately thought about wanting roast chicken while Jiang Yunsheng listened, then stayed for a meal where he had roast chicken placed in front of her.

Jiang Nuan tested whether her family and companions could hear her thoughts, then became distressed that their affection might have started because of them. She withdrew to her room for several days, and Jiang Yehua failed to persuade her to come out.

• Jiang Nuan imagined that Jiang Chengze and Jiang Yehua might be having a forbidden romance, making the family at dinner lose their composure.
• Jiang Nuan left the meal and tested Yun Shining, An Yan, and the others, then concluded that people from foreign lands, commoners, and evildoers probably could not hear her thoughts.
• Jiang Nuan worried that her Imperial Father and family treated her well only because they heard her thoughts, and she shut herself in her room to avoid them.
• After Jiang Nuan refused food and company for a full day, Jiang Yehua knocked on her door with barbecue and urged her to see an Imperial Physician.
• Jiang Nuan told Jiang Yehua she was in a bad mood and would not open the door, so he returned to ask the others for advice.

Jiang Nuan shut everyone out after discovering they could hear her thoughts, believing they had only been kind to her to use her. Jiang Yehua and Cen Xue were chosen to speak with her, and she let them into her room, where they found her dejected.

• Jiang Yehua returned without Jiang Nuan, and the others went to her courtyard to ask why she was refusing to see them.
• Jiang Nuan ordered Spring flowers and autumn moon to send everyone away, so the group discussed what might have upset her.
• Chi Hengji and Cen Xue concluded that Jiang Nuan had learned they could hear her thoughts and likely felt their kindness was false.
• Chi Hengji advised sending Jiang Yehua and Cen Xue, whom Jiang Nuan trusted, to speak with her instead of approaching as a crowd.
• Cen Xue called through Jiang Nuan's door, and Jiang Nuan allowed her and Jiang Yehua to enter.
• Cen Xue urged Jiang Nuan to share her feelings, while Guagua felt relieved that they had reached her.

Jiang Nuan worked through her doubts about whether her family cared for her only because they could hear her thoughts, then demanded a reward for her help. Jiang Yunsheng proposed making her Crown Princess, but Jiang Nuan rejected the idea because she feared the workload.

• Jiang Yehua and Cen Xue reassured Jiang Nuan that they cared about her for who she was, and that hearing her thoughts had only helped them understand and support her.
• Jiang Nuan emerged from her room and demanded a reward from Jiang Yunsheng for all she had done.
• Jiang Yunsheng asked Jiang Nuan how she felt about becoming the Crown Princess, and Jiang Chengze and the others voiced their support.
• Jiang Nuan objected that becoming Crown Princess would leave her working all year without a day off.

Jiang Nuan rejected becoming Crown Princess but accepted the honorary title of Grand Princess, and her family left Ze County to continue their tour. As they headed for Miao County, Jiang Yunsheng learned that Guagua might help protect him from the danger awaiting him there.

• Jiang Nuan refused to become Crown Princess but accepted the title of Grand Princess after Jiang Yunsheng assured her it required no work.
• Jiang Chengze, Cen Xue, and the others departed, and Jiang Nuan continued to hold a grudge against Jiang Yunsheng for making her attend court.
• Jiang Nuan and Jiang Yunsheng left Ze County and set off for Miao County, where Guagua warned that Jiang Yunsheng had been struck by Gu in her previous life.
• Jiang Yunsheng praised Guagua until it promised to protect him, and Jiang Nuan considered praising it more to help it resist compliments.

Jiang Nuan entered Miao County with You Youyou’s help and learned that a faction there planned to assassinate the emperor. You Youyou offered a Gu King egg that could protect him from gu poison, and Jiang Nuan revealed that the emperor was her father.

• You Youyou identified Jiang Nuan and her companions as friends, helping them pass the guards and warning them not to reveal their imperial merchant status.
• You Youyou privately warned Jiang Nuan that Miao County might treat people who could hear her inner thoughts as monsters, but Jiang Nuan assured her she was safe.
• Jiang Nuan asked You Youyou how to disrupt the plan to assassinate the emperor, and You Youyou explained the conflict between Miao County’s two factions.
• You Youyou offered a Gu King egg that could protect the emperor from gu poison, but worried she would never get him to swallow it.
• Jiang Nuan told You Youyou that she had already met the emperor because he was her father, and You Youyou doubted her.

Jiang Nuan helped Jiang Yunsheng and You Youyou crush the rebels in Miao County, and Great Xia later conquered the Jing Kingdom after the Black Moon Kingdom became its vassal. Three years after leaving the Capital City, Jiang Nuan returned and reunited with her family and friends, while Chi Hengji confronted her for forgetting him.

• You Youyou brought over a man who recognized Jiang Yunsheng as the emperor, and Jiang Nuan gave Jiang Yunsheng the Gu King's egg to eat.
• Jiang Nuan identified the rebels, their undercover agents, and their plans, allowing Jiang Yunsheng and You Youyou to arrest them with ease.
• The Black Moon Kingdom's sixth prince took the throne and passed the Jing Kingdom's letter to Jiang Yunsheng, leading Great Xia and the Black Moon Kingdom to feign conflict before the Black Moon Kingdom became Great Xia's vassal.
• Two years later, Great Xia and the Black Moon Kingdom defeated the Jing Kingdom, and its ruler surrendered as they reached the Capital City.
• Three years after beginning their tour, Jiang Nuan and her companions returned to the Capital City, where officials complained that her glass had become commonplace.
• Chi Hengji confronted Jiang Nuan for forgetting him, while his parents watched and realized he was interested in her.

Jiang Nuan visited her transformed fief in Rui'an County and learned how it had prospered under Cen Xue, An Yan, and Yun Shining. She later fell in love with Chi Hengji, became engaged to him, and was proclaimed Princess Royal as Great Xia grew into the planet’s only nation.

• Chi Hengji invited Jiang Nuan to visit her fief, and she accepted.
• Jiang Nuan arrived in Rui'an County, where residents recognized her and showered her with gifts.
• Xiaofeng told Jiang Nuan that tourism, thriving businesses, and growing harvests had brought prosperity to Rui'an County.
• Yun Shining revealed that she and Jiang Yehua were together, An Yan was engaged, and Cen Xue and the Crown Prince seemed close.
• Jiang Nuan returned to work, fell in love with Chi Hengji, and became engaged to him on her coming-of-age day.
• Jiang Yunsheng proclaimed Jiang Nuan Princess Royal, and ten years later Great Xia became the planet’s only nation.

Jiang Nuan learned that a Heavenly Screen was broadcasting events from later generations and watched a host introduce her life while traveling to visit her tomb. The chapter left Jiang Nuan and her companions gathered around food, amused by the livestream and the later generations’ comments.

• Jiang Nuan saw a giant screen appear in the sky, and Guagua explained that it was a Heavenly Screen system livestreaming the future.
• After the screen remained inactive for three days, host Xiao Ran announced that her livestream would introduce Princess Auspicious Harmony while traveling to the Capital City.
• Jiang Nuan realized Xiao Ran was heading to visit her tomb and heard her recount Jiang Nuan’s difficult childhood and love of roast chicken.
• The people around Jiang Nuan brought her a chair, snacks, and ten roast chickens after seeing her watch the screen.
• Jiang Chengze, Jiang Yehua, Chi Hengji, Cen Xue, An Yan, and Yun Shining arrived and joined Jiang Nuan for an impromptu tea party as the livestream continued.

Xiao Ran’s Heavenly Screen recounted Jiang Nuan’s rise to influence and her supposed talents, while people in Rui'an County celebrated her past deeds. The chapter left Jiang Nuan listening as Xiao Ran began telling how she exposed fraudulent alchemists and urged Emperor Xia Wu to spare them.

• Xiao Ran explained that Emperor Xia Wu had noticed Jiang Nuan after ten years and that she had supposedly refused the Crown Princess position, while Jiang Nuan firmly rejected the idea of becoming Crown Princess.
• Xiao Ran credited Jiang Nuan with helping Emperor Xia Wu uncover corrupt officials, and people from counties she had visited shared stories of her exposing criminals and advancing capable locals.
• Xiao Ran repeated unofficial accounts that Jiang Nuan had appeared as a goddess in Jade Spring Village and ended its human sacrifices.
• Xiao Ran arrived at a furnace in Rui'an County and explained that Jiang Nuan had exposed alchemists who tried to deceive Emperor Xia Wu with supposed immortality elixirs.
• Xiao Ran said Jiang Nuan had persuaded Emperor Xia Wu not to execute the alchemists, and Jiang Nuan wondered whether she had really said those words.

The Heavenly Screen revealed how Jiang Nuan helped alchemists develop gunpowder and how the weapon transformed Great Xia, prompting alchemists across the country to seek her out. At the Misty Pavilion, it named Chi Hengji as Jiang Nuan’s future prince consort and said she would save his life.

• Xiao Ran explained that Jiang Nuan helped alchemists discover gunpowder, and Great Xia’s people began treating her as a goddess.
• The Heavenly Screen showed a gunpowder weapon blasting a crater into a hill, terrifying foreign nations and inspiring Great Xia’s alchemists to seek Jiang Nuan.
• Xiao Ran introduced the Misty Pavilion and said Jiang Nuan had proposed commemorating Great Xia’s twenty-four meritorious officials there.
• Xiao Ran revealed that Jiang Nuan’s future prince consort was Chi Hengji, and the people looked between him and Jiang Nuan.
• Xiao Ran said Chi Hengji became chancellor as a teenager, was expected to die before twenty, and was saved by Jiang Nuan.

The Heavenly Screen recounted how Jiang Nuan and Chi Hengji fell in love and married, then began introducing Cen Xue as Misty Pavilion’s second great contributor. It left off with the story of Cen Xue falling in love at first sight with Jiang Nuan’s older brother, Crown Prince Jiang Chengze.

• Xiao Ran described how Chi Hengji and Jiang Nuan became close through letters and how he sent a duke’s grandson to the frontier to keep him from being matched with her.
• Chi Hengji confirmed the gossip, reassured Jiang Nuan that the future could change, and resolved to change his white-robed style after hearing it had made him seem unapproachable.
• Xiao Ran recounted how Chi Hengji and Jiang Nuan became a couple, married, had Commandery Princess Lingxi, and chose not to have another child.
• Xiao Ran introduced Cen Xue as Misty Pavilion’s second great contributor and described how Jiang Nuan founded the Women’s Imperial Examination and Public School, where Lü Zhi became Top Laureate and Cen Xue Second-Place Laureate.
• Xiao Ran revealed that Cen Xue was Jiang Nuan’s sister-in-law and had fallen in love with Crown Prince Jiang Chengze at first sight, delighting him.

Xiao Ran finished introducing Jiang Nuan’s achievements and showed how Great Xia would have fared without her, while Jiang Nuan and the others watched the sky screen. Its revelations inspired people across the realm to seek Great Xia, setting the stage for its easy expansion and leaving Jiang Nuan celebrated as an idol.

• The sky screen recounted Cen Xue’s career and marriage to Jiang Chengze, then introduced Lü Zhi, Han Xin, and other figures whose lives Jiang Nuan had changed.
• Xiao Ran showed the ministers a list of their achievements, prompting them to compete for a place among the Twenty-Four Meritorious Officials of the Misty Pavilion.
• Xiao Ran visited the castle built in Rui'an County to honor Jiang Nuan and Chi Hengji, explaining that their ashes had been scattered at sea.
• Xiao Ran showed that Jiang Nuan’s reforms had transformed Rui'an County and helped bring food and warm clothing to all of Great Xia within five years.
• People from other nations flocked toward Great Xia, and its generals later found some cities opening their gates to welcome them.
• Jiang Nuan became an idol among Great Xia’s people, who traveled to Rui'an County hoping to see her.

Chi Hengji reflected on how Jiang Nuan’s arrival changed his expectations for life, restored his health, and led him to fall in love with her. After the Heavenly Screen revealed their future, they began a relationship and eventually married.

• Chi Hengji entered the imperial court despite knowing he was destined to die young, and Jiang Nuan’s inner voice soon caught his attention.
• Jiang Nuan arranged for the Divine Healer’s medicine to restore Chi Hengji’s health, giving him hope of living longer.
• Chi Hengji realized he loved Jiang Nuan when he learned that an old general wanted his grandson to become her consort, and he impulsively sent the grandson to the frontier.
• The Heavenly Screen revealed that Chi Hengji would become Jiang Nuan’s consort, and Jiang Nuan eventually began a relationship with him.
• Chi Hengji and Jiang Nuan married, and he recalled the saying that someone who saves your life should be repaid by pledging yourself to them.