Recaps

Xiao Yu reunited Qi Yunheng with his family, saved the Crown Prince at the cost of his divine soul, and helped restore order in Southern Zhao. After defeating a child-trafficking scheme, Xiao Yu returned to the palace with Tantai Yun Heng, whose past and feelings remained central to their relationship.

• Tan Tai Heng let Xiao Yu’s group leave the Underground Palace, then watched Xiao Yu from afar and later reunited with him as Qi Yunheng.
• Qi Yunheng named Xiao Yu Queen, and Xiao Yu’s father came to Southern Zhao, where Xiao Yu chose to bring Qi Yunheng home with him.
• The Crown Prince went to Jiangzhou, where Cui Rong cared for him, but Prince Cheng’s scheme led to an attack that left the Crown Prince near death.
• Xiao Yu exchanged a wisp of his divine soul to save the Crown Prince, who awoke without remembering his history with Cui Rong, and Cui Rong later followed him toward the capital.
• Qi Yunheng defeated the First Prince’s rebellion with Xiao Yu’s help, and Xiao Yu accidentally transformed Yun Cheng into a calf.
• Xiao Yu and Tantai Yunheng uncovered traffickers who had turned abducted children into horses, freed the children, and traced the crimes to Master Miaofa and a possessing weasel.
• A stranger killed the weasel before Xiao Yu could punish it, and Xiao Yu rejected Li Yingjie’s proposal before returning to the palace with Tantai Yun Heng.

Xiao Yu and Dantai Yunheng faced a poison attack that sent them back six years, while Cui Rong struggled with his love for the Crown Prince. The lovers reunited in the present, and Cui Rong and the Crown Prince confessed their feelings and agreed to build a life together.

• Dantai Yunheng threatened the Eastern Li envoys after Li Lanru insulted Xiao Yu, while Li Yingjie’s flirtation earned him a trip to the dungeon.
• Li Lanru learned that the Eastern Li envoys planned to poison her and sought Xiao Yu’s protection, though Xiao Yu initially refused to help her.
• Xiao Yu investigated Wang Liang’s embezzlement case as Dantai Yunheng ordered his Empress Coronation Ceremony expedited, and Wang Liang proposed to Xiaodie.
• Dantai Yunheng gave Xiao Yu a Lantern Festival surprise at a mountaintop hot spring, while Cui Rong met the Crown Prince and declared his love to Chancellor Cui.
• The Prince of Pingxi abducted Xiao Yu, and Xiao Yu retaliated before Dantai Yunheng killed the prince, whose poison left Xiao Yu unconscious.
• Dantai Yunheng awoke as an eleven-year-old in the Jin Kingdom’s Cold Palace and told Xiao Yu he was his future A-Heng, but Xiao Yu initially rejected his claim.
• Xiao Yu and Dantai Yunheng learned they had returned from six years in the future and needed the Divine Herb Ganzha or restored spiritual energy to return again, while Xiao Yu protected the Crown Prince from his brothers.
• In Southern Zhao, Dantai Yunheng reunited with Xiao Yu, and three years later Qi Yunheng pursued Xiao Yu and insisted they belonged together.
• Cui Rong tried to suppress his love for the Crown Prince and supported his choice of a Crown Princess, but later confessed his love, kissed him, and received his agreement to share a life together.