Recaps

Jiang Nuan rescued An Yan from a remote cave and brought her to a nearby estate to recover. After hearing An Yan’s thoughts, Jiang Nuan declared them sisters, then spent the next three days feeding her plain rice porridge.

• Jiang Nuan left the palace with guards and followed Guagua’s directions to a cave where she found An Yan feverish and unconscious.
• Jiang Nuan gave An Yan a fever-reducing pill, brought her to a nearby estate, and summoned a physician.
• An Yan woke and thanked Jiang Nuan, who asked her to stay and become her older sister; An Yan accepted.
• Jiang Nuan fed An Yan plain rice porridge, which reminded An Yan of painful memories and moved her to tears.
• Jiang Nuan kept serving An Yan plain rice porridge for three days until An Yan grew sick of it.

Jiang Nuan attended court and learned that her beloved Fourth Brother, Jiang Yehua, would return tomorrow, while she looked forward to welcoming him with new dishes. After court, Jiang Yunsheng delayed morning court so Jiang Nuan would no longer have to rise before dawn.

• An Yan woke feeling better and accepted Jiang Nuan as her younger sister, while Jiang Nuan left to attend court and told An Yan to wait for her.
• At court, Jiang Nuan silently criticized An Laiyun for favoring his adopted daughter and learned that Mao Qiantao had discovered his concubine’s affair.
• Jiang Nuan asked Guagua where her Fourth Brother was and learned that Jiang Yehua and the Fifth Prince would return from dealing with bandits the next day.
• Jiang Nuan decided to prepare dishes to welcome Jiang Yehua, then grew bored and wished court would end so she could visit An Yan.
• Jiang Yunsheng dismissed court and announced that morning court would begin later, delighting Jiang Nuan and silencing the ministers who wanted to object.

After Jiang Nuan visited An Yan, the sisters shared a meal and went shopping, where Jiang Nuan bought An Yan new clothes. Their outing ended when two men entered a shop and Guagua revealed their connection to Great General Mao.

• Jiang Nuan visited An Yan after court, praised her cooking, and secretly fed Guagua, whose appearance startled An Yan.
• Jiang Nuan gave An Yan a gold ingot and took her shopping, insisting that An Yan buy things for herself.
• Jiang Nuan bought An Yan a sea-green jacket and clothes, and An Yan emerged looking beautiful in her new outfit.
• A frivolous man entered the shop with a sapphire-blue-robed companion, and Guagua identified them as the children of Great General Mao's concubine and a guard.

An Yan and Jiang Nuan went with Mao Yonghong and Mao Yi to the General's Residence, where the brothers revealed their hostility and tried to have the women seized. Just as Jiang Nuan prepared to summon her Shadow Guards, Guagua told her Great General Mao would arrive in five seconds.

• Mao Yonghong threatened An Yan and Jiang Nuan, while Mao Yi questioned their family backgrounds and invited them to the General's Residence.
• An Yan agreed to go after sensing Jiang Nuan wanted to uncover gossip, and insisted Jiang Nuan accompany her.
• Mao Yonghong and Mao Yi brought the women to the General's Residence, where Steward Zhang ignored the brothers' questions about their father and mother.
• Mao Yonghong tried to assault An Yan, but she kicked him in the groin, prompting Mao Yi to order the servants to seize both women.
• Mao Yonghong threatened the women and their families, while Jiang Nuan prepared to call her Shadow Guards.
• Guagua told Jiang Nuan that Great General Mao would arrive in five seconds.

Jiang Nuan revealed her identity as the Ninth Princess after Mao Qiantao caught his sons threatening her family, and Mao Qiantao disowned the brothers by exposing their true parentage. As Mao Qiantao confronted his concubine and a Wei guard with evidence of their affair, Guagua hinted that the guard had even bigger secrets.

• Mao Qiantao kicked Mao Yonghong and Mao Yi after hearing them threaten Jiang Nuan and An Yan.
• Mao Qiantao addressed Jiang Nuan as the Ninth Princess, shocking Mao Yonghong and Mao Yi.
• Jiang Nuan reminded Mao Qiantao of the brothers' threat against her imperial family, and he declared that they were not his sons.
• Mao Yonghong pleaded with Mao Qiantao and then Jiang Nuan for forgiveness, while Jiang Nuan let Mao Qiantao continue settling his family affairs.
• Mao Qiantao brought in his concubine and a Wei guard, then presented a dudou and letters as evidence of their affair.
• Guagua told Jiang Nuan that the Wei guard had major gossip to reveal.

Jiang Nuan learned that Han Xingzhou had poisoned Mao Zhonglin and that the young general was trapped in a snowbound mountain with the poison flaring up. Guagua revealed that a female healer had rescued Mao Zhonglin and could cure him, leaving his survival and future romance assured.

• Guagua revealed that Han Xingzhou was a Goryeo native who had infiltrated Great General Mao's household to take revenge for his family's ruin.
• Jiang Nuan learned that Han Xingzhou had fathered two of Great General Mao's three children and wanted Mao Zhonglin gone so his own sons could inherit the residence.
• Guagua revealed that Han Xingzhou had poisoned Mao Zhonglin, who had already been exposed to the slow-acting poison for two months.
• Guagua said Mao Zhonglin was trapped in a snowbound mountain, where the poison had flared up and left his life hanging by a thread.
• Mao Qiantao tried to ask Jiang Nuan to save his son but found himself unable to speak, then recovered after he gave up.
• Guagua revealed that a female healer had rescued Mao Zhonglin and could cure his poison with a medicinal catalyst inherited by her family.

After Mao Qiantao learned that Mao Zhonglin had recovered and fallen for a female physician, he beat Han Xingzhou and confronted his unfaithful wife and her sons. Jiang Nuan warned Mao Qiantao that Han Xingzhou had framed him for colluding with an enemy country, and Mao ordered a search of the General's Residence.

• Mao Qiantao beat Han Xingzhou for poisoning Mao Zhonglin, while Mao Yi and his mother insisted Mao Yi and Mao Yonghong were Mao Qiantao's sons.
• Mao Qiantao whispered something to the woman and her sons, and all three were dragged away.
• Jiang Nuan realized Han Xingzhou had forged Mao Qiantao's handwriting and arranged to have him reported for colluding with an enemy country.
• Jiang Nuan urged Mao Qiantao to search his study, bedroom, and residence for evidence planted by Han Xingzhou.
• Mao Qiantao ordered Uncle Zhang, Zuo Yan, and You Yu to search the residence, and Han Xingzhou's composure cracked.

Mao Qiantao exposed Han Xingzhou’s plot to frame him for treason, destroyed the planted evidence, and cooperated with an official search that found nothing. After Han Xingzhou was taken away, Mao thanked Jiang Nuan with gold ingots, which she eagerly pocketed.

• Steward Zhang brought Mao Qiantao a box of forged letters, and Mao’s accusation revealed that Han Xingzhou had been using his real name and planting evidence.
• Mao opened the box, found letters imitating his handwriting and describing his military campaigns, then burned them and disposed of the other planted evidence.
• An officer arrived to investigate a treason accusation, and Mao allowed the soldiers to search the General’s Residence, where they found nothing.
• Han Xingzhou broke down and was taken away after Mao ordered the guards to remove him.
• Mao thanked Jiang Nuan for warning him by offering her gold ingots, and she stuffed them into her pockets.

Jiang Nuan shared her gold with An Yan, then helped her seek a shop to start a business, only to learn that its owner was Jiang Nuan’s Fourth Brother. Back at the palace, Jiang Nuan received two highly skilled martial maids from Jiang Yunsheng and came up with a new idea.

• Jiang Nuan gave An Yan half the gold ingots and encouraged her to invest in a business.
• An Yan proposed buying a poorly performing jewelry shop, but the shopkeeper said only its owner could decide whether to sell it.
• Jiang Nuan learned from Guagua that the shop’s owner was her Fourth Brother and promised An Yan she could obtain it.
• Jiang Yunsheng introduced Chunhua and Qiuyue as Jiang Nuan’s new martial-trained personal maids and insisted she take them when leaving the palace.
• Jiang Nuan returned to the Lotus Palace and suddenly came up with a brilliant idea after looking at Chunhua and Qiuyue.

Jiang Nuan recruited Chunhua and Qiuyue to use their quick hands to help her make a cream cake for her fourth brother, Jiang Yehua. After both guards enjoyed the test cakes, Jiang Nuan planned to make fresh ones the next day, but overslept and missed the chance to see her brother before court.

• Jiang Nuan brought Chunhua and Qiuyue to the kitchen and asked them to whip egg whites and cream for a cake she planned to make for Jiang Yehua.
• Chunhua quickly whipped the cream while Jiang Nuan prepared fruit and assembled three small cakes.
• Qiuyue refused her cake at first, but after Chunhua secretly praised it by eating hers, Qiuyue grabbed the spare and discovered she loved it.
• Jiang Nuan promised Chunhua and Qiuyue more cakes the next day and prepared the ingredients before leaving the kitchen.
• Jiang Nuan overslept the next morning and decided to visit Jiang Yehua after court instead.

Jiang Nuan discovered that Chancellor Chi Hengji had a rare genetic illness that would kill him young, but learned that a medical book in her transmigration treasure chest might hold a cure. She then remembered her Fourth Brother, Jiang Yehua, and began looking for him.

• Jiang Nuan admired Chi Hengji and thought he would die young, prompting officials to fear he might bring about Great Xia's downfall.
• Jiang Nuan clarified that Chi Hengji's death would leave Great Xia's court in chaos, and Jiang Yunsheng ordered the Imperial Physicians to examine him.
• The Imperial Physicians diagnosed Chi Hengji with a wind-cold illness, but Jiang Nuan recalled that he had a congenital illness they had missed.
• Guagua explained that Chi Hengji had a rare genetic disease and said a medical book in Jiang Nuan's treasure chest contained a treatment.
• Jiang Nuan resolved to find the treatment, then remembered Jiang Yehua and began searching for her Fourth Brother.

Jiang Nuan revealed that Jiang Ruihui would ruin Great Xia and be responsible for the deaths of his siblings and many ministers. Jiang Yunsheng ordered the Fifth Prince removed and summoned his teachers, Qu Weide and Han Yaou, whom Jiang Nuan recalled Jiang Ruihui would later execute on fabricated charges.

• Jiang Nuan recognized Jiang Ruihui and thought he would kill Fourth Brother and bring disaster upon the imperial family and Great Xia.
• Jiang Yunsheng and Jiang Yehua realized Jiang Nuan was accusing Jiang Ruihui, while the ministers grew hostile toward the Fifth Prince.
• Jiang Nuan thought Jiang Ruihui would become a disastrous emperor who favored eunuchs, obeyed his teachers, and surrendered to the enemy.
• Jiang Yunsheng ordered the unwell Jiang Ruihui taken away and called Qu Weide and Han Yaou forward.
• Jiang Nuan recalled that Jiang Ruihui would execute Qu Weide and Han Yaou on fabricated charges after becoming emperor.

Jiang Nuan learned why Jiang Ruihui resented his teachers and how Hu Junchen and Qiu Chenwei had once tried to recruit Jiang Yehua. Jiang Yunsheng appointed them as Jiang Yehua’s teachers, while Guagua revealed the Fourth Prince’s secret kindness to his siblings and his accidental following at court.

• Guagua explained that Jiang Ruihui blamed his teachers for teaching loyalty rather than helping him seize the throne, while Hu Junchen and Qiu Chenwei had secretly encouraged his ambitions.
• Guagua revealed that Hu Junchen and Qiu Chenwei had first approached Jiang Yehua, but he had ignored their hints and remained devoted to helping Jiang Chengze.
• Jiang Yunsheng appointed Hu Junchen and Qiu Chenwei as Jiang Yehua’s teachers, and both men eagerly accepted.
• Guagua revealed that Jiang Yehua had secretly helped his siblings, including funding grain for Jiang Chengze’s disaster relief, because he longed for family affection.
• Guagua explained that ministers mistook Jiang Yehua’s straightforward remarks and pensive expression for signs of plotting, unknowingly forming a substantial faction around him.

Jiang Nuan’s inner thoughts exposed the court factions backing Jiang Yehua and Jiang Ruihui, then revealed Deputy Minister of Revenue You Fengzhe’s extensive corruption. The chapter left Jiang Yunsheng poised to act after Guagua disclosed that You Fengzhe had hidden his stolen silver in Pure Brahma Temple.

• Jiang Yehua was stunned to learn that ministers secretly supported him as a potential heir, while Jiang Yunsheng realized he had misjudged his fourth son.
• Jiang Nuan noted that many ministers also backed Jiang Ruihui and recalled how enemy forces later hunted down officials who fled Capital City.
• Jiang Nuan asked Guagua to identify the court’s most corrupt official, and Guagua named Deputy Minister of Revenue You Fengzhe.
• Guagua revealed that You Fengzhe had embezzled disaster relief funds and military pay, and Jiang Yunsheng’s anger settled into a dangerous calm.
• Jiang Nuan asked where You Fengzhe had hidden his silver, and Guagua disclosed that it was stashed inside Pure Brahma Temple.

Jiang Nuan made cream cakes for Jiang Yehua and her family, then accepted several Capital City shop deeds from her fourth brother as an investment in her plans. She discovered that one deed belonged to a shop she had wanted and prepared to put her ideas into action.

• Guagua told Jiang Nuan that a downpour would keep them from going to Jingfan Temple, leaving time to find Chi Hengji's prescription and retrieve You Fengzhe's silver.
• Jiang Nuan introduced herself to Jiang Yehua and invited him to the Hibiscus Pavilion for a surprise.
• Jiang Nuan made cream cakes and sent them to her family, An Yan, Chunhua, and Qiuyue before sharing two with Jiang Yehua.
• Jiang Yehua praised the cake and gave Jiang Nuan several deeds to his Capital City shops as an investment.
• Jiang Nuan found that one deed belonged to the shop she and An Yan had wanted and resolved to put her plans into action.

Jiang Nuan searched medical books with Guagua’s help and found a prescription for Chi Hengji, then planned to get an itinerant physician to deliver it. After court, she brought An Yan the shop’s property deed, and they began discussing opening the shop.

• Jiang Nuan asked Guagua to check prescriptions in her medical books and spent the night turning pages until Guagua found one that could help Chi Hengji.
• Jiang Nuan wrote out the prescription and decided to hire someone to pose as an itinerant physician and give it to Chi Hengji.
• Jiang Nuan yawned in the Golden Throne Hall and thought about her plans to deliver the prescription, visit An Yan, and sneak into Pure Brahma Temple.
• Chi Hengji heard Jiang Nuan’s plan and decided to welcome any itinerant physicians who came to his residence.
• After court, Jiang Nuan gave An Yan the shop’s property deed, and An Yan asked to discuss opening the shop.

Jiang Nuan helped An Yan plan a jewelry and clothing business, suggesting marketing strategies and modern designs that could greatly increase its profits. She also proposed making affordable down jackets for ordinary people, and An Yan admired her generosity.

• An Yan showed Jiang Nuan her plans for combining a jewelry shop with a clothing shop, and Jiang Nuan left the business decisions to her.
• Jiang Nuan suggested limited-edition collections, membership cards, exclusive outfits, and building a brand, impressing An Yan with ideas she believed could triple revenue.
• Jiang Nuan drew cute character designs and described modern clothing details, which An Yan considered promising for customers in Capital City.
• Jiang Nuan asked An Yan to make warm clothes stuffed with cleaned duck and goose down and sell them to ordinary people at cost or below.
• An Yan understood Jiang Nuan wanted to help people endure winter and felt admiration for her younger sister.

Jiang Nuan went to Pure Brahma Temple at night with Chunhua and Qiuyue to investigate, where Guagua revealed the abbot Huijue’s criminal past. The chapter ended with Jiang Nuan learning that Huijue had abducted and sold a commoner mother and daughter.

• Jiang Nuan left An Yan and rode with Chunhua and Qiuyue to Pure Brahma Temple after dark.
• Jiang Nuan crawled through a hole in the temple wall while Chunhua and Qiuyue climbed over it.
• Chunhua and Qiuyue hid Jiang Nuan when they heard footsteps approaching.
• Jiang Nuan saw the temple abbot Huijue and his son, Wuchen, and asked Guagua about them.
• Guagua revealed that Huijue had helped You Fengzhe hide embezzled money in the temple and later became abbot.
• Guagua told Jiang Nuan that Huijue had abducted a commoner mother and daughter and sold them for silver.

Jiang Nuan and Jiang Yehua rescued dozens of women from Huijue’s criminal operation at Pure Brahma Temple, and Jiang Nuan used Jiang Yehua’s lifesaving pill to stabilize a badly injured woman. As the rescued woman was treated, Guagua revealed she was linked to Jiang Yehua by a red thread of fate.

• Jiang Nuan decided to risk rescuing a gravely injured woman, but Jiang Yehua arrived with soldiers and surrounded Pure Brahma Temple before she could act.
• Jiang Yehua sent Rong Yu, soldiers, Chunhua, and Qiuyue into the side room while keeping Jiang Nuan outside for her safety.
• Qiuyue carried out the injured woman, and Jiang Yehua gave Jiang Nuan his precious lifesaving pill to stabilize her.
• Jiang Nuan and the others saw dozens of captive women rescued, and the women attacked Huijue and his accomplices with stones.
• Guagua revealed that the injured woman was linked to Jiang Yehua by a red thread of fate, and Jiang Yehua froze outside the room as the woman twitched her fingers.

Jiang Nuan accompanied Jiang Yehua’s soldiers as they found the silver You Fengzhe had hidden at the Pure Brahma Temple, then filled her System Space with gold and silver. She decided to stay overnight so they could catch Huijue selling the goods the next day, while Jiang Yehua summoned Zhou Youjia to join the investigation.

• Jiang Nuan made an excuse to Jiang Yehua for coming to the Pure Brahma Temple, and he explained that Jiang Yunsheng had sent soldiers to search for You Fengzhe’s stolen funds.
• Jiang Yehua brought Jiang Nuan through a secret passage to the hidden storeroom after soldiers found it and reported back.
• Jiang Yehua let Jiang Nuan take some of the goods, and she filled her System Space until it could hold no more.
• Jiang Nuan carried out a few gold ingots and a Cloisonné Headpiece Set, while Jiang Yehua ordered the remaining goods sent to the imperial treasury.
• Guagua told Jiang Nuan that Huijue would deliver goods to buyers the next day, so she agreed to stay at the temple overnight.
• Jiang Yehua sent subordinates to bring Zhou Youjia to the temple to assist with the case.

Jiang Yehua helped Zhou Youjia recover the missing people and arrest the buyers who had arranged to purchase them from Huijue. After the others left, Jiang Yehua learned through Jiang Nuan’s thoughts that the injured young woman was Yun Shining, a runaway martial artist with nowhere to go.

• Jiang Yehua brought Zhou Youjia to the rescued people, and Zhou Youjia recognized them as the missing-person victims he had been searching for.
• After hearing what happened at Pure Brahma Temple, Zhou Youjia borrowed Jiang Yehua’s soldiers to arrest Huijue’s buyers when they arrived disguised as worshippers.
• Guagua identified the buyers to Jiang Nuan, and the soldiers captured them along with the monks involved in the abductions.
• Jiang Yehua sent soldiers to notify the rescued people’s families, but no one came for the injured young woman who remained at the temple.
• Jiang Nuan learned that the young woman was Yun Shining, a runaway from Cloud Cloud Manor who had been drugged, abducted, and whipped by Huijue’s men.

Jiang Nuan tried to find someone trustworthy to deliver a prescription to Chancellor Chi, but Guagua revealed that the unreliable street swindler she had encountered was actually Gu Qingfeng, the master of Divine Physician Valley. The chapter left Jiang Nuan questioning how such an eccentric man could be a renowned healer.

• Jiang Nuan took the incapacitated Yun Shining to An Yan’s residence, arranged for a doctor and maids to care for her, and then left with a prescription for Chancellor Chi.
• Jiang Nuan searched for a convincing person to deliver the prescription but rejected a nervous candidate who might expose the plan to Chi Hengji.
• Jiang Nuan encountered an old man claiming he could diagnose and treat a passerby, mistook him for a swindler, and offered him silver to stop scamming people.
• Guagua returned from sleep mode and told Jiang Nuan that the man was Gu Qingfeng, the Divine Healer treating Chancellor Chi and the master of Divine Physician Valley.
• Gu Qingfeng introduced himself and asked Jiang Nuan to lend him a hundred taels of silver, leaving her doubtful of his reliability and Valley’s finances.

Jiang Nuan gave Gu Qingfeng a prescription for Chi Hengji and arranged for him to examine Yun Shining. She escorted Gu Qingfeng to the Chancellor’s Residence, where Chi Hengji saw them together.

• Jiang Nuan offered Gu Qingfeng her prescription, and he recognized it as suitable for treating Chi Hengji’s illness.
• Gu Qingfeng worried the prescription might be an ancestral heirloom, but Jiang Nuan explained it was fine to share and refused his offer to teach her medicine.
• Gu Qingfeng gave Jiang Nuan his Capital City address and agreed to examine Yun Shining the next day.
• Jiang Nuan gave Gu Qingfeng silver for his consultation and escorted him to the Chancellor’s Residence after he admitted he could not find his way.
• Chi Hengji saw Jiang Nuan waving goodbye to Gu Qingfeng.

Chi Hengji confirmed that he knew Jiang Nuan had given Gu Qingfeng a prescription to treat his illness, and Gu Qingfeng began planning the treatment at the Chancellor's Residence. At An Yan's newly renovated shop, Jiang Nuan decided to make glass for sale and asked her sister to find artisans.

• Gu Qingfeng showed Chi Hengji a prescription for his illness, and Chi Hengji revealed that he knew Jiang Nuan had provided it.
• Chi Hengji warned Gu Qingfeng not to repeat Jiang Nuan's thoughts aloud, then invited him to the Chancellor's Residence to study the treatment.
• Jiang Nuan visited An Yan's renovated shop and saw its jewelry, clothing, and promotional campaign attracting customers ahead of its opening.
• Jiang Nuan remembered that glass could be made into valuable goods and asked An Yan to hire artisans to produce it.
• An Yan considered finding herself an assistant as Jiang Nuan handed her another task.

An Yan considered recruiting Yun Shining as an assistant, while Jiang Nuan brought Divine Physician Gu to examine Yun Shining’s injuries. Gu Qingfeng recognized Yun Shining, then discovered he could not speak aloud about Jiang Nuan’s inner voice, and began testing the strange restriction before examining her.

• An Yan decided she needed a reliable assistant and considered Yun Shining as a possible candidate.
• Jiang Nuan arrived at the courtyard residence with Gu Qingfeng, who had come to treat Yun Shining.
• Gu Qingfeng recognized Yun Shining and teased her about running away from Cloud Cloud Manor, while she asked him to keep her whereabouts secret.
• Gu Qingfeng tried to ask Jiang Nuan about his missing disciple but found himself unable to say anything that would reveal her inner voice.
• Gu Qingfeng repeatedly tested the restriction, confusing Jiang Nuan, before setting aside the joke and preparing to examine Yun Shining.