Recaps

Jian Tongyao reunited with Toothless and Little White Ball while investigating the living dead magic beasts and sent them to help Qian Wanyu. She began cultivating in a lake, where Ding Ding captured a huge water-type magic beast, but it then went berserk with the Longevity Cauldron and toppled trees around the lake.

• Jian Tongyao and Little Lecher found signs of deliberate burnings and living dead magic beasts, then tracked Toothless and Little White Ball to a river channel.
• Toothless and Little White Ball burned the living dead magic beasts with true fire, and Jian Tongyao reunited with them and warned that their flames were drying up the Purple Demon Mountains' water sources.
• Jian Tongyao sent Toothless and Little White Ball to find Qian Wanyu and help gather the living dead magic beasts, while she went to find water and cultivate.
• At a lake, Ding Ding caught fish while Jian Tongyao cultivated, then discovered an enormous water-type magic beast and moved it into the Longevity Cauldron.
• Ding Ding began tumbling uncontrollably with the Longevity Cauldron, knocking down trees as Little Lecher failed to restrain it.

Jian Tongyao and Qian Wanyu escaped a powerful water-element beast after Ding Ding accidentally trapped it in the Longevity Cauldron. They found a private cave and resumed their dual cultivation, leaving Ding Ding behind with a cave full of fish.

• Jian Tongyao found Ding Ding buried upside down in the ground, and Little Lecher explained that Ding Ding had trapped a powerful beast in the Longevity Cauldron.
• Qian Wanyu freed the beast, which flooded the mountains, and she, Jian Tongyao, and Ding Ding fled back to their cave.
• Qian Wanyu warned Jian Tongyao that the beast was one of the Purple Demon Mountain Lords and told her not to provoke it again.
• Ding Ding dumped a heap of fish into the cave, so Jian Tongyao and Qian Wanyu left to find another place for dual cultivation.
• In a nearby cave, Jian Tongyao kissed Qian Wanyu, and the two began cultivating together as Qian Wanyu sent spiritual power into her body.

Jian Tongyao trained against magic beasts in the Purple Demon Mountains to strengthen her foundation after advancing rapidly through dual cultivation with Qian Wanyu. After the group left for the Golden Star Empire, they found townspeople fleeing from the nine dark elves, and Qian Wanyu later slipped away with the others at midnight while Jian Tongyao waited.

• Jian Tongyao discovered she had advanced to late-stage Spirit Warrior after dual cultivating with Qian Wanyu and decided to temper herself through battle.
• Jian Tongyao lured magic beasts with grilled meat and fought them repeatedly, suffering serious wounds as she trained over the next three months.
• Qian Wanyu arrived and announced it was time to leave the Purple Demon Mountains; she urged Ding Ding to cultivate so it could stay with Jian Tongyao.
• After Jian Tongyao awoke from three days of enlightenment, she reunited with the nine dark elves and departed with the group for the Golden Star Empire.
• Townspeople fled when the group entered a town, so Qian Wanyu had the dark elves conceal their wings and change into ordinary clothes.
• At midnight, Jian Tongyao discovered Qian Wanyu and the others had quietly gone out, while Little Lecher told her to wait for their return.

Qian Wanyu returned with Wenren Liangzhi under her control and led the group to Snow Capital City, where they settled into an inn as danger seemed to gather around them. Jian Tongyao asked to inspect the thousand-thread silk, but Qian Wanyu turned the moment into an intimate encounter.

• Qian Wanyu returned at dawn with Mo Han, the dark elves, and Wenren Liangzhi, whom she controlled with refined thousand-thread silk.
• Jian Tongyao worried that Wenren Liangzhi might escape Qian Wanyu's control, and Qian Wanyu explained that he was a pawn of Sheng Wenze.
• The group reached Snow Capital City, took rooms in a shabby courtyard, and assigned Wenren Liangzhi to share with Little White Ball.
• Toothless and Little Lecher argued and fought over their room assignments before Jian Tongyao sent everyone to patrol because the night would not be peaceful.
• Jian Tongyao pulled Qian Wanyu into their room to examine the thousand-thread silk, but Qian Wanyu undid her belt and teased her about dual cultivation.

Qian Wanyu investigated Sheng Wenze’s hidden lair in Snow Capital City and discovered it was connected to the Royal Academy. She ordered Wenren Liangzhi to gather the people planted there while Jian Tongyao went to seek out Situ Hongying.

• Qian Wanyu comforted Jian Tongyao as Mo Han and the others fought off probing mercenaries through the night.
• Qian Wanyu took Wenren Liangzhi to locate Sheng Wenze’s lair, leaving Toothless, Little White Ball, and the others behind.
• Wenren Liangzhi led Qian Wanyu and Jian Tongyao through a hidden passage from North Street into a room inside the Royal Academy’s Ice Hall.
• Qian Wanyu ordered Wenren Liangzhi to summon the Academy’s planted people individually over the next three to five days.
• Qian Wanyu sent Jian Tongyao to visit Situ Hongying, and Ding Ding agreed to protect her.

Jian Tongyao returned to the Royal Academy, reunited with Blue Star Dream, and learned that Situ Hongying had become a living dead after testing a potion on himself. She began treating him but told Bai Rou that she would focus on cultivating and staying with Seventh Sister rather than carrying the burden of saving everyone.

• Jian Tongyao used a potion master's robe to pass the patrol and returned to her courtyard, where she reunited with Blue Star Dream and the spirit plants.
• The medicine attendant mistook Jian Tongyao for a spy and summoned patrol squads; Ding Ding took their weapons and captured the guards in the Longevity Cauldron.
• Jian Tongyao met Yong Xing, Situ Hao, and Bai Rou, then learned that Situ Hongying had tested her potion on himself and lost his mind to the living-dead poison.
• Jian Tongyao examined Situ Hongying and instructed Situ Hao to give him diluted potion regularly and safely destroy the poisoned water.
• Bai Rou asked Jian Tongyao to keep the severity of Situ Hongying's condition from Situ Hao, and Jian Tongyao declared that she would devote herself to reaching Seventh Sister and living for herself.

Jian Tongyao and Qian Wanyu investigated the Pharmacy Institute Back Mountain, where Jian Tongyao encountered an ancient Longevity Tree and slept for a month. After learning the tree had chosen her to carry on its inheritance, Jian Tongyao said goodbye to Situ Hongying and her friends before leaving with Qian Wanyu to pursue Sheng Wenze.

• Situ Hongying woke and confirmed that the jade pendant Jian Tongyao carried had a purpose, but he became agitated when she proposed returning to the Back Mountain.
• Qian Wanyu and Jian Tongyao sneaked into the Pharmacy Institute Back Mountain, passed its spirit-plant defenses, and entered the chamber opened by the jade pendant.
• Jian Tongyao saw life-force motes around the great tree, while vines attacked Qian Wanyu and wrapped Ding Ding in a cocoon; the tree then carried Jian Tongyao high into its branches, where she fell asleep.
• Qian Wanyu told Jian Tongyao she had slept for a month and explained that Situ Hongying identified the tree as the Longevity Tree, a Sacred Tree from the Upper Realm whose inheritance he had intended Jian Tongyao to carry on.
• Jian Tongyao learned that Bai Rou had given birth to Dian Dian, then visited her master and friends and said goodbye before leaving with Qian Wanyu to destroy Sheng Wenze's lair.

Qian Wanyu led Jian Tongyao toward Death Valley as they encountered signs of a spreading illness and prepared for a possible confrontation with Sheng Wenze. Near Death Valley, Ding Ding spotted Little Light, and the group found it fighting frenzied magic beasts.

• Qian Wanyu explained that they were heading to Death Valley to destroy one of Sheng Wenze’s lairs, while Jian Tongyao restrained herself from trying to save the suffering people along the road.
• Toothless and Little White Ball told Qian Wanyu that Mo Han had gone berserk after someone tried to summon him, and Qian Wanyu suspected a secret art had triggered it.
• The group found a village where everyone had died of what seemed to be the same illness, burned the corpses and houses, and continued onward with warnings to be careful about food and water.
• As they neared Death Valley, Qian Wanyu and Jian Tongyao discussed Little White Ball’s feelings for Toothless and the obstacles their relationship might face.
• Ding Ding excitedly led Jian Tongyao toward Little Light, where Toothless found it fighting frenzied magic beasts and threw a fireball at them.

Jian Tongyao and Qian Wanyu encountered Little Light and a group of Qilin Holy Beasts, then made peace with them and prepared to enter Death Valley. The next day, the holy beasts’ sudden rallying cries and the sound of charging hooves drew the group to a startling scene.

• Toothless and Little White Ball were attacked by Light-Type Holy Beasts, while Qian Wanyu and Jian Tongyao were surrounded by their kin.
• Qian Wanyu fought off the holy beasts with death aura, and Jian Tongyao reunited with the grown Little Light after Ding Ding found it.
• Jian Tongyao asked Little Light and the other holy beasts to let their group pass toward Death Valley, and the group agreed to rest before setting out.
• The following day, Qian Wanyu heard Little Light and the holy beasts calling, and the group hurried after them to witness a shocking scene.

Jian Tongyao and Qian Wanyu watched the Light-Type Holy Beasts use a golden barrier to purge Death Valley’s death aura, while Qian Wanyu explained that she intended to control the Death Spirit Masters and restore balance. When the barrier failed as the sunlight weakened, they fought off the attacking black shadows and helped the exhausted holy beasts escape.

• Jian Tongyao nearly walked toward the holy beasts’ barrier until Qian Wanyu pulled her back and warned her not to approach.
• Qian Wanyu explained that light could not eradicate darkness and revealed that she wanted to bring the Death Spirit Masters under control to restore stability to the Three Great Empires.
• As the sunlight shifted and the holy beasts’ strength waned, their Light-Type Energy Barrier weakened and shattered, releasing attacking black shadows.
• Qian Wanyu and Little White Ball tore apart the shadows, while Jian Tongyao sent Ding Ding to protect the holy beasts.
• Jian Tongyao urged Little Light to lead its kin away, and the holy beasts nuzzled her in gratitude before leaving.

Jian Tongyao discovered that a river in Death Valley held abundant water-element spiritual power, then a Qilin Holy Beast carried her to its cave after nightfall. Her companions pursued her through a night attack by Death Spirit Masters, and she was left wondering why Little Light had brought her to the cave.

• Jian Tongyao followed a Qilin Holy Beast to a clear river and found she could cultivate using the water's abundant spiritual power.
• Jian Tongyao cultivated beside the river while the Qilin Holy Beast guarded her and kept Qian Wanyu at a distance.
• After nightfall, the Qilin Holy Beast seized Jian Tongyao and galloped away, prompting Toothless, Qian Wanyu, Mo Han, and the others to chase them.
• Toothless's fireballs set trees alight as Death Spirit Masters attacked with black mist, and Qian Wanyu warned that the flames could draw more enemies.
• The Qilin Holy Beast brought Jian Tongyao to a cave, where Little Light dragged her inside among the resting holy beasts.

Jian Tongyao spent the night protected in Little Light’s cave while Qian Wanyu and the others fought Death Spirit Masters outside. At dawn, Little Light’s father revealed the sacred beasts’ dire situation, and Qian Wanyu decided to test a new idea that night.

• Jian Tongyao asked Little Light to let her leave the cave, but Little Light kept the barrier closed and sheltered her through the night.
• Ding Ding tore through the light-type barrier briefly, then Little Light repaired it and purified a wisp of death aura.
• At dawn, Qian Wanyu and the others reunited with Jian Tongyao, and Little Light’s father appeared in human form.
• Little Light’s father explained that attacks happened constantly and led Qian Wanyu to a field of sacred-beast remains.
• Qian Wanyu’s death aura vanished in the field, so Jian Tongyao pulled her back before she went farther.
• Qian Wanyu told Jian Tongyao to return to the cave after dark and said she would test a new idea that night.

Jian Tongyao and Qian Wanyu tried to persuade Little Light’s father to change how the Qilin Holy Beast clan protected Death Valley, while Qian Wanyu used the beasts’ burial ground to repel the black mist. The senior finally heard Qian Wanyu’s proposal, but erupted when she revealed that Sheng Wenze had many lairs across the Seven-Colored Continent.

• Jian Tongyao asked Little Light’s father to discuss a lasting solution, but he stayed hidden among the holy beasts.
• Qian Wanyu led the group to the holy beasts’ burial ground, where the remains’ light energy destroyed any black mist that approached.
• Qian Wanyu surveyed the burial ground while Little White Ball and the others fought the black mist through the night.
• At dawn, Qian Wanyu called Little Light’s father out and said she had a way to prevent the clan’s crisis from recurring.
• Qian Wanyu asked whether the clan could leave Death Valley, then explained that Sheng Wenze had dozens or hundreds of other lairs.
• Little Light’s father flew into a rage, transformed into a holy beast, and began digging furiously while Jian Tongyao and Qian Wanyu backed away.

Qian Wanyu prepared a formation at the Sacred Beast Burial Mound to trap Sheng Wenze, while Jian Tongyao guarded their allies and the controlled dark elves. Qian Wanyu then left with Toothless and Little White Ball to scout Death Valley, and Jian Tongyao waited anxiously to learn whether Sheng Wenze would take the bait.

• Qian Wanyu persuaded Little Light's father to help lure Sheng Wenze into the Sacred Beast Burial Mound and power a Light-Type Energy Barrier at noon three days later.
• Qian Wanyu ordered Jian Tongyao to dig up the sacred beasts' remains, then arranged their bones into a formation within a formation.
• Qian Wanyu fought the night black mist while Jian Tongyao stayed inside the burial mound, and Qian Wanyu revealed Sheng Wenze had known of their arrival from the start.
• Qian Wanyu left with Toothless and Little White Ball to scout Death Valley, ordering Jian Tongyao to watch Mo Han and Wenren Liangzhi.
• Jian Tongyao had Ding Ding confine Wenren Liangzhi, Mo Han, and the other dark elves in the Little Black Room, then waited for Qian Wanyu's return.

Qian Wanyu and her companions entered Death Valley to lure Sheng Wenze toward the Sacred Beast Burial Mound, where Toothless and Little White Ball were attacked by an enormous skeletal soldier. Qian Wanyu confronted the creature, suspected it was Sheng Wenze, and left it furious after shattering its body with an arrow.

• Qian Wanyu led Toothless and Little White Ball through the deserted town and into the cave, then split from them to draw out Sheng Wenze.
• Toothless and Little White Ball fought the approaching Death Corps and an enormous skeletal soldier, but their attacks failed to stop it.
• Toothless fled with Little White Ball, then sent her ahead while she tried to lure the skeletal soldier toward the Sacred Beast Burial Mound.
• Qian Wanyu rescued Toothless, heard her account of the soldier's strange pauses, and suspected Sheng Wenze was controlling it.
• Qian Wanyu shot the skeletal soldier with her Reincarnation Bow, scattering its bones, but it reassembled and charged after her.

Qian Wanyu lured Sheng Wenze into the Light-Element Formation and fought him through repeated ambushes and a war of attrition, while Jian Tongyao and the others battled Death Spirit Masters outside. When Toothless arrived, Sheng Wenze attacked her in a skeleton body, giving Qian Wanyu a chance to draw him toward the Formation Within a Formation.

• Qian Wanyu used herself as bait to draw Sheng Wenze to the Sacred Beast Burial Mound and explained that he wanted the Elf Heart to restore or create a body capable of containing him.
• Qian Wanyu led Sheng Wenze into her Emperor-Slaying Formation, destroyed his giant skeleton body, and used the Light-Element Formation to consume his death aura.
• Jian Tongyao, Little White Ball, and Ding Ding stayed outside while Toothless and Little Light's father led the Light-Type Holy Beasts toward the formation; Jian Tongyao and Little White Ball then fought the Death Spirit Masters in town.
• Qian Wanyu endured Sheng Wenze's repeated attacks and countered his attempts to approach, using the thousand-thread silk's movements to detect him and exploiting the formation to wear him down.
• After Toothless arrived, a skeleton attacked her; Toothless burned it with her true fire and fled, while Qian Wanyu followed, hoping to lure Sheng Wenze into the Formation Within a Formation.

Qian Wanyu trapped Sheng Wenze in her dantian and fought him inside her soul sea while the light-element formation battered her body. Jian Tongyao helped stabilize Qian Wanyu’s spiritual power just as she began advancing, and the chapter ended with a Spirit Sovereign about to be born on the Seven-Colored Continent.

• Qian Wanyu used the light-element formation and the holy beasts’ attacks to expose Sheng Wenze, then baited him into her dantian and began fighting him for control of her soul sea.
• Sheng Wenze broke through Qing Mo’s defenses and entered Qian Wanyu’s soul sea, where Qian Wanyu and the soul-sound grass confronted him as the formation continued injuring her.
• After five days, Toothless brought Jian Tongyao into the formation, and Jian Tongyao entered Qian Wanyu’s soul sea and called out to her until she responded.
• Qian Wanyu began absorbing Sheng Wenze as her dark-element Spirit Bead started growing, and Jian Tongyao calmed it by guiding the five Spirit Beads into balance.
• Jian Tongyao emerged and told Toothless that Qian Wanyu’s advancement could have destroyed Death Valley, then realized a Spirit Sovereign was about to be born on the Seven-Colored Continent.

After the Death Spirit Masters withdrew, Qian Wanyu and Jian Tongyao returned to the Thousand Family, where they held a joyful wedding. They left soon afterward, while Wei Junlan hoped to find a way to help Xuanzhu and Qian Wanyu promised to deal with Wenren Liangzhi.

• The Death Spirit Masters abandoned their attacks across the empires, and Jian Tongyao reunited with Xuanzhu and Wei Junlan in Death Valley.
• Wei Junlan asked Jian Tongyao how Xuanzhu's short lifespan might be extended, and Jian Tongyao urged him to confess his feelings; Qian Wanyu said their relationship and Xuanzhu's condition were theirs to resolve.
• Jian Tongyao said goodbye to Little Light and the sacred beasts, and Qian Wanyu freed Mo Han and the others while taking responsibility for Wenren Liangzhi.
• Qian Wanyu and Jian Tongyao returned to the Thousand Family estate, where Qian Yiling and the family prepared a wedding for them.
• Qian Wanyu and Jian Tongyao married in the Thousand Family courtyard, then left soon afterward despite Qian Yiling and Lance asking them to stay.

Jian Tongyao and Qian Wanyu set out to train, later returning to the Royal Academy’s great tree to open a passage to the Upper Realm. After they disappear into the sky, Qing Mo, Little Lecher, and Ding Ding set off to continue their own journey.

• Lance recovered much of his vitality from the Elf Heart, while Jian Tongyao chose to leave Dream Capital City with Qian Wanyu to train.
• Qian Wanyu dissolved her contract with Little White Ball, and Toothless agreed to return to the Dragon Clan while Little White Ball followed her.
• Ten years later, Jian Tongyao and Qian Wanyu entered Snow Capital City with Qing Mo and Little Lecher, then decided the whole group would visit the Royal Academy’s great tree.
• Jian Tongyao and Qian Wanyu climbed toward the treetop and opened a passage through the sky, while a fierce wind swept Qing Mo, Little Lecher, and Ding Ding away.
• After Jian Tongyao and Qian Wanyu vanished, Qing Mo led Little Lecher and Ding Ding toward a dangerous Sword Mound, and Ding Ding said it would find Little Ninth.

Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu helped Mother Tong marry Uncle Charlie, then returned to daily life as Le Le’s spiritual abilities and popularity came to light. When Situ Xu proposed adapting Tong Yao’s comic, Qian Wanyu decided to start an entertainment company instead, and Zhang Yanqing arrived for a meeting with her.

• Tong Yao persuaded Mother Tong to choose a dream wedding and invite Dad, then she and Qian Wanyu organized the ceremony with Charlie.
• At the wedding, Tong Yao told Dad that Mother Tong was pregnant with a boy, and he left before the banquet.
• Tong Yao struggled to keep up with Le Le during a family run, then learned from Qian Wanyu that Le Le had Spiritual Power since birth.
• Situ Xu told Tong Yao that her comic was popular and that a company wanted adaptation rights; she refused to sell it, while Qian Wanyu proposed starting an entertainment company.
• Tong Yao agreed to contribute their savings as capital, and Zhang Yanqing arrived at the café for his scheduled meeting with Qian Wanyu.

Qian Wanyu offered Zhang Yanqing a job at her planned entertainment company and used evidence of Zhang Qian’s misconduct to expose her carefully crafted public image. Zhang Yanqing resigned from Starry Sky Entertainment, while Tong Yao learned that Qian Wanyu had orchestrated the revelations and ended the chapter teasingly focused on her.

• Qian Wanyu offered to help Zhang Yanqing clear his name if he joined her new company, and Zhang Yanqing said he would consider it.
• Qian Wanyu arranged for photographs of Zhang Qian meeting a man at a hotel to be published, leading Zhang Yanqing’s boss to suspect him of retaliation.
• Zhang Yanqing denied causing the revelations, submitted his resignation, and left Starry Sky Entertainment.
• A second wave of disclosures revealed Zhang Qian’s past drug use and time in the Reform-Through-Labor Center, wrecking her innocent public image.
• Tong Yao inferred that Qian Wanyu had arranged the exposés, and Qian Wanyu confirmed that Zhang Qian had framed Zhang Yanqing after he rejected her attempt to lure him into joining her.

Tong Yao saved an elderly woman who was choking, while Qian Wanyu proposed adapting Tong Yao’s comic into a web drama. After Tong Yao enrolled Le Le in kindergarten to make friends, she learned that Le Le had been organizing the children into fights across the school.

• Tong Yao treated an elderly woman whose breathing was blocked by a chicken bone, and a bystander’s video of the rescue went viral after Le Le was recognized.
• Qian Wanyu offered to adapt Tong Yao’s comic into a web drama while preserving its characters and letting Tong Yao approve the cast, but Tong Yao asked her to wait until the company was established.
• Mother Tong gave birth to a boy named Tong Xin, and Tong Yao and Le Le visited them at the hospital.
• Tong Yao persuaded Le Le to attend kindergarten, where Le Le quickly gained her classmates’ loyalty and led them in conflicts with children from other classes.
• Principal Cai showed Tong Yao evidence of Le Le’s schoolwide campaign, and Tong Yao learned that the kindergarten had summoned her over the repeated fights.

Tong Yao learned that Qian Le Le had been caught leading her junior class in bullying the middle and senior classes at kindergarten. She returned to the Café distressed and planned to discuss how to handle the situation with her partner.

• Tong Yao asked Dean Cai to let her discuss the situation with her partner and to keep it from Qian Le Le for now.
• Dean Cai explained that the kindergarten had called Tong Yao in to discuss how to handle Qian Le Le's behavior.
• Tong Yao returned to the Café feeling dejected and buried her head in a cushion.
• Qian Wanyu asked Tong Yao if she had been bullied, but Tong Yao and Qian Le Le had not been victims.
• Tong Yao realized Qian Le Le had joined her junior class in bullying children in the middle and senior classes, and had been caught.

Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu dealt with Qian Le Le’s disruptive kindergarten behavior, then sent her to a monastery for three years under the terms of her wager with Qian Wanyu. After Le Le adapted to monastery life and Tong Yao’s comic became successful, the family went to bring her home, while Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu also discussed adapting the comic into a web series.

• Qian Wanyu questioned Qian Le Le about kindergarten, learned that she had deceived her teachers and looked down on the other children, and told her to accept the consequences of their wager.
• After Qian Le Le caused more trouble at kindergarten, Qian Wanyu arranged her withdrawal, and Qian Le Le admitted she had completed the task her mother gave her.
• Qian Le Le chose Qian Wanyu’s arranged path and was sent to a mountain monastery, where Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu watched her settle into its strict routine before leaving her there for three years.
• During those three years, Tong Yao drew comics and Qian Wanyu grew Royal Entertainment Company; Qian Wanyu told Tong Yao that Le Le would return soon and proposed adapting Tong Yao’s comic into a web series, which Tong Yao agreed to star in with her.
• A month later, Tong Yao, Qian Wanyu, Mother Tong, and Tong Xin traveled to the monastery to bring Qian Le Le home.

Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu reunited with Qian Le Le after three years apart, then brought her home, where she quickly settled into family life and disciplined training. As Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu prepared their comic’s web drama, Le Le helped push Gan Rui toward a role, and filming began with the couple struggling to act as enemies because they kept looking at each other lovingly.

• Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu met Qian Le Le at the temple and brought her home, while Tong Xin eagerly attached himself to his new big sister.
• Tong Yao discovered that Le Le woke before dawn to practice martial arts, and later took her to visit Qian Wanyu’s company, where Le Le remembered Gan Rui for insulting her mother.
• At the open auditions, Gan Rui was unnerved by Tong Yao and performed poorly, but Tong Yao suggested casting her as Dongfang Lizhu, and Qian Wanyu offered her the role.
• Qian Wanyu persuaded Situ Xu to play Situ Hao, and the family traveled to the filming location when production began in June.
• During the first scene, Gan Rui struggled to stay in character around Tong Yao, then Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu forgot their hostile lines and exchanged affectionate declarations until Director Li called cut.