Chapter Summaries

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.