Recaps

Jian Ruonan proved her medical skill by diagnosing the Heir Apparent's Consort, leaving their talent contest tied. When the consort arranged for her to treat a supposedly paralyzed imperial guard, Jian Ruonan accepted the challenge and demanded her Deep Sea Scalpel.

• The Heir Apparent's Consort challenged Jian Ruonan to demonstrate her medical skills by diagnosing a patient, and Madam Wang volunteered despite her nail fungus.
• Jian Ruonan identified boils on the Heir Apparent's Consort's arms and embarrassed her by exposing her jealousy over the heir apparent's new beauty.
• The ladies' votes for Jian Ruonan and Tenth Young Miss tied, so the Heir Apparent's Consort proposed another test involving a seriously ill patient.
• The heir apparent brought in Guard Chen, who appeared paralyzed, and promised not to blame Jian Ruonan if treatment failed and to give her the jewelry if he improved.
• Jian Ruonan agreed to treat Guard Chen and called for her Deep Sea Scalpel.

Jian Ruonan treated Imperial Guard Chen’s supposed paralysis with a Deep Sea Scalpel, revealing that he had only been faking hemiplegia after a real stroke. Her bizarre procedure restored movement to his hand and left the Heir of the Prince of the Southwest and the onlookers astonished.

• Jian Ruonan inspected Imperial Guard Chen and read the medical records, while the officials’ wives suspected the records had been prepared to intimidate her.
• Jian Ruonan discovered through the Melon Patch that Imperial Guard Chen had facial paralysis but was pretending to be hemiplegic.
• Jian Ruonan used the Deep Sea Scalpel between Imperial Guard Chen’s fingers, then blindfolded herself and claimed she needed to borrow twenty years from heaven to cure him.
• The Heir of the Prince of the Southwest and the attendants fled from Jian Ruonan’s blindfolded stabbing, but Imperial Guard Chen’s arm straightened and his fingers spread apart.
• Jian Ruonan declared that she had severed the shackles binding Imperial Guard Chen’s hand, and Dantai Mo’s positive reaction earned her 100 points.

Jian Ruonan challenged the Heir Apparent's Consort's claim that she had not cured Imperial Guard Chen by threatening to saw off his legs, then startled him into jumping up and exposing his fake paralysis. She left the gathering having proved her cure and won the dispute.

• Jian Ruonan announced she would use her Imperial Sword after the Heir Apparent's Consort and the Heir of the Prince of the Southwest argued that Imperial Guard Chen had not improved enough.
• Jian Ruonan pulled a steel saw from her pouch and said she would saw off Imperial Guard Chen's legs, cast a spell, and reattach them to treat the root cause.
• Jian Ruonan demonstrated the saw by cutting off a stool leg, then prepared to operate on Imperial Guard Chen while blindfolding herself and him.
• Jian Ruonan placed the saw against Imperial Guard Chen's leg, and he yelped and jumped off the bed, revealing that he was not paralyzed.
• Jian Ruonan declared that she had cured Imperial Guard Chen and treated the root cause.

Jian Ruonan cured Imperial Guard Chen, collected a five-hundred-tael consultation fee, and kept the Sapphire Peacock Kingfisher Hairpin despite the Heir Apparent’s Consort’s attempt to reclaim it. Her interaction with the Fourth Prince earned her more system points, while Jian Chuxue’s remarks made the Tenth Young Miss suspect that the Third Prince loved Jian Ruonan.

• Imperial Guard Chen stood up after Jian Ruonan’s treatment, and the Heir of the Prince of the Southwest paid her five hundred taels when Chen hesitated to pay.
• Jian Ruonan refused to exchange the Sapphire Peacock Kingfisher Hairpin for another item and put it in her pouch.
• Jian Ruonan noticed the Fourth Prince’s emotional fluctuations and gained 300 system points, while the Black Tortoise System mistakenly celebrated that he had fallen for her.
• The Heir Apparent’s Consort led the ladies to admire an Eighteen Scholars camellia after the contest ended.
• The Tenth Young Miss complained about Jian Ruonan to Jian Chuxue, who implied that the Third Prince loved Jian Ruonan.

Jian Ruonan confronted Jian Chuxue over her support for the Third Prince, whom Jian Ruonan warned was from the Wa Kingdom. The chapter ended with news that Tangyuan had fought Lang Batian, while Jian Ruonan calmly trusted the Heir Apparent's Consort to treat her bear fairly.

• Jian Chuxue accused Jian Ruonan of competing with her by selling Warm Jade, and Jian Ruonan told her to mind her own affairs.
• Jian Ruonan warned Jian Chuxue that the Third Prince was from Little Japan, but Jian Chuxue said he had rejected the Wa Kingdom and that she had no way back.
• A maid reported that Tangyuan and Lang Batian had fought, and the Heir Apparent's Consort pretended to worry while expecting Tangyuan to have been badly hurt.
• Jian Ruonan told the Heir Apparent's Consort not to blame Tangyuan if the bear had misbehaved, and the Consort promised she would not hold it against Tangyuan.

The Imperial Guard ordered Tangyuan to be put in Wolf Batian’s enclosure to provoke a fight, but Tangyuan knocked the wolf down and used him as a seat. When Jian Ruonan arrived, Tangyuan was still sitting on Wolf Batian.

• An Imperial Guard ordered the servants to remove the partition between Tangyuan and Wolf Batian, then had them throw in a wounded chicken to stir up the wolf’s instincts.
• Tangyuan chased after his apples, caught the chicken, and claimed it before Wolf Batian could.
• Wolf Batian lunged at Tangyuan, but Tangyuan dodged and knocked him down with a paw.
• Tangyuan sat on Wolf Batian’s head, pooped into his mouth, and swatted him until he stopped resisting.
• The servants tried to lure Tangyuan away with apples, but Jian Ruonan arrived and recognized the whimpering wolf beneath him as Wolf Batian.

Jian Ruonan’s Tangyuan overpowered the Heir of the Prince of the Southwest, humiliating him in front of the court ladies. After he threatened Jian Ruonan, an unseen force strangled him, and the same force seized his wife as she ordered an attack on Jian Ruonan’s residence.

• Jian Ruonan and the Heir Apparent's Consort found Tangyuan sitting on Wolf Batian, and the Heir of the Prince of the Southwest entered the enclosure to rescue his pet.
• Tangyuan knocked down the Heir of the Prince of the Southwest, tore off his crown and belt, and pinned him until Jian Ruonan called it away.
• The injured Heir of the Prince of the Southwest and the Heir Apparent's Consort blamed Jian Ruonan for her influence over events, and he vowed to kill her.
• An invisible force strangled the Heir of the Prince of the Southwest as he threatened Jian Ruonan, and he died after scratching the words “Great-Grandma” into the floor.
• The Heir Apparent's Consort ordered people sent to the Jinyang Marquis's Residence, then felt the same invisible hands close around her throat.

Jian Ruonan’s system upgrade revealed videos of the prince’s heir, his consort, and Tenth Young Miss dying after encountering the mysterious “Great-Grandma.” As the Prince of the Southwest’s residence descended into chaos, Shi Fan seized the chance to destroy its gambling dens, and Emperor Deyuan appointed Jian Ruonan a general.

• The heir apparent and his consort died after writing “Great-Grandma,” and Tenth Young Miss was killed after ordering an attack on Jian Ruonan.
• Jian Ruonan upgraded Big System, then exploited the Good Luck Shop’s bug to draw cards and accumulated over ten thousand points of debt.
• After Min asked about the deaths, Jian Ruonan’s upgraded Dog System showed her and her companions videos of the three deaths.
• Shi Fan ordered his men to wipe out the Prince of the Southwest’s gambling dens, prompting Emperor Deyuan to appoint Jian Ruonan Distant Pacification General of the Subordinate Third Rank.

Jian Ruonan brought the Fourth Prince and Hou Lixie to her Farm Estate, where she gave Wu Yehe equipment to modify into a weapon. Meanwhile, Jian Chuxue tested her own explosives on Mount Wanyang and planned to use her private army to conquer Xia.

• Jian Ruonan’s upgraded Dog System contacted the Black Tortoise System, and she asked it to bring the Fourth Prince to her Farm Estate so she could shock him for points.
• The Fourth Prince met Jian Ruonan and Hou Lixie on the road, then accompanied them to the Farm Estate.
• Jian Ruonan introduced the Fourth Prince to Abbot Li, Daoist Zhang, Daoist Xu, and Wu Yehe, then gave Wu Yehe a pressure cooker, a Gas Canister, welding equipment, and a schematic to build “Silly Sweetheart.”
• On Mount Wanyang, Jian Chuxue’s private troops tested a gunpowder bomb that blasted a crater in the ground.
• Jian Chuxue vowed to use her explosives and three thousand private troops to conquer Xia.

Jian Ruonan took in refugees at the Farm Estate while preparing to confront the bandits on Mount Wanyang. After Jian Chuxue fired on her party, Jian Ruonan’s Gas-Cylinder Rocket Launcher devastated the mountaintop, though Jian Chuxue survived and vowed revenge.

• Jian Ruonan ordered the estate to give refugee workers food, jobs, and a place to stay, while Dantai Mo offered grain and Imperial Guards to help.
• Wu Yehe completed the Gas-Cylinder Rocket Launcher, and Dantai Mo demonstrated Abbot Li’s grenade by blowing apart a cypress with an arrow.
• Jian Ruonan’s Enhanced Gossip Button revealed Jian Chuxue preparing to attack her party with a cannon, so Jian Ruonan ordered Wu Yehe to set up the launcher.
• Jian Chuxue’s cannon blasts fell short, and Jian Ruonan’s Gas-Cylinder Rocket Launcher struck the bandits’ gunpowder pile on Mount Wanyang.
• The explosion wiped out the mountain bandits and blasted away half the mountaintop, while buried Jian Chuxue survived and vowed revenge.

After Jian Ruonan’s explosive device accidentally sets off fireworks, she delivers sixteen calves as two cows each give birth to eight, while Wu Yehe has a baby boy. As Jian Ruonan hands the cattle ranch to Dantai Mo, the Ministry of War prepares to send her to command troops, where Captain Xue and his men doubt her ability.

• Jian Ruonan’s gas-canister explosion ignited the remaining fireworks and injured Jian Chuxue, while Wu Yehe went into labor.
• Jian Ruonan used Cow Midwifery to help two cows each deliver eight healthy calves, and Wu Yehe gave birth to a baby boy nicknamed Gas Canister.
• Jian Ruonan gave Dantai Mo the remaining Multiple-Birth Pills and put him in charge of the cattle ranch, while the Black Tortoise System tracked his rising points.
• Pei Junfei and the vice ministers discussed sending Jian Ruonan to the barracks to command troops and warned the soldiers not to go too far.
• Captain Xue and the barracks soldiers mocked the idea of an eleven-year-old girl commanding them, and Xue said she would have to prove her strength.

Jian Ruonan took Pei Shaoyi to the barracks and cured her lovesick poetry habit with Black Tortoise’s ridiculous verses. At the garrison, Commander Wang underestimated Jian Ruonan and prepared Xue Jing to challenge her.

• Pei Shaoyi delivered Madam Pei’s treasured saber and letter asking Jian Ruonan to help correct her lovesick granddaughter’s behavior.
• Jian Ruonan brought Pei Shaoyi to the barracks and used Black Tortoise’s crude rhymes to make her give up composing poetry.
• Commander Wang and the garrison officers waited all morning for Jian Ruonan, then mistook her afternoon arrival for a deliberate show of force.
• After hearing Jian Ruonan had brought only one companion and was composing poetry, Commander Wang ordered Xue Jing to spar with her.

Jian Ruonan faced skeptical soldiers at the barracks and entered an archery contest with Xue Jing. Her improved crossbow missed the target but its explosive bolt destroyed it, leaving the Martial Arts Ground stunned.

• Jian Ruonan visited the barracks with Pei Shaoyi and was challenged by the soldiers to demonstrate her abilities.
• Commander Wang arrived with officers, and Jian Ruonan recognized that the soldiers hoped to make her disgrace herself.
• Jian Ruonan chose archery and brought out an improved crossbow fitted with explosive bolts, drawing the soldiers’ mockery.
• Xue Jing shot the bull’s-eye from horseback with a powerful bow and pierced through the target.
• Jian Ruonan fired from her horse, missed the target, and detonated the bolt, blasting apart the target and a large patch of ground.

Jian Ruonan silenced the Drill Ground by obliterating a target with her crossbow, then showed off equipment that made mounted combat easier. She ended the rematch by using her AWM to destroy an iron target from a thousand meters away, leaving Xue Jing with no grounds to object.

• Jian Ruonan blew apart the first target with her crossbow, leaving Commander Wang unable to score the shot and Xue Jing unconvinced she had won the archery contest.
• Pei Shaoyi pointed out that Jian Ruonan’s shot had missed the target, and Jian Ruonan privately celebrated her supposed perfect score.
• Jian Ruonan rode Little White Horse and showed Commander Wang her Maiden Stirrups and Maiden Crossbow, then refused to share them after recalling his earlier insults about women.
• Jian Ruonan had the target moved to a thousand meters away, drew her AWM, and shattered it with a single shot.
• A subordinate called the shot another perfect score, while Xue Jing was left speechless.

Jian Ruonan used demonstrations of her advanced weapons and equipment to impress the Garrison and recruit soldiers for her planned Daughter Army. She ended her address by presenting herself as a heavenly god and unleashing lightning from a Tesla Coil, leaving the troops shaken.

• Jian Ruonan defeated Xue Jing in a shooting contest by hitting a target a thousand meters away with her AWM while Xue Jing's arrow reached only three hundred meters.
• Jian Ruonan challenged the soldier who had called her a hen and ordered Hou Lixie to gather the entire Garrison for an address.
• Jian Ruonan announced her plan to form a Daughter Army and showed the soldiers the Maiden Stirrups, Maiden Crossbow, and AWM.
• Selected infantrymen and cavalrymen tested the Maiden Stirrups and Maiden Crossbow, prompting soldiers to reconsider serving under Jian Ruonan.
• After a soldier questioned her combat ability, Jian Ruonan declared herself a heavenly god and wielded a Tesla Coil that sent bolts of lightning across the Drill Ground.

Jian Ruonan used a Tesla Coil to convince the soldiers at the Drill Ground that she was the Electricity God, earning their devotion and winning their commitment to her Maiden Army. The chapter ended with Hou Lixie leading the soldiers in an oath to follow her and never betray the army.

• Jian Ruonan produced lightning with her Tesla Scepter and Tesla Coil, causing the soldiers to kneel and hail her as the Thunder God.
• Jian Ruonan declared herself the Electricity God, demonstrated catching lightning with grounded gloves, and lit a bulb with the Tesla Coil.
• The soldiers made wishes to Jian Ruonan and offered her silver pieces, which she told Chen Pozi to collect.
• Jian Ruonan asked the soldiers to follow her, and they enthusiastically agreed to serve the Distant Pacification General.
• Jian Ruonan defended the name Maiden Army, and no soldiers chose to leave.
• Hou Lixie led the soldiers in swearing to follow Jian Ruonan and never betray the army.

Jian Ruonan secured the soldiers’ loyalty and planned to expand the Maiden Army with new weapons and a five-thousand-strong cavalry force. She went to the Imperial Study with the Ministers of Revenue and War to seek funding, while Emperor Deyuan worried about the cost.

• Jian Ruonan warned the soldiers that breaking their oath would bring heavenly punishment, winning their allegiance and gaining 5,600 combat power.
• Jian Ruonan told Commander Wang and Battalion Commander Xue about her plans for advanced weapons, a projectile squad, and five thousand cavalrymen, and appointed Hou Wenyao as her deputy.
• Emperor Deyuan learned that Jian Ruonan had won the barracks’ loyalty in less than two hours by summoning the Lightning God.
• Jian Ruonan arrived at the Imperial Study with the Ministers of Revenue and War to request military funding, and Hou Wenyao warned that her request for a million taels might be rejected.
• Jian Ruonan said she would appeal to Emperor Deyuan’s feelings and reason, while privately considering summoning the Lightning God again if needed.

Jian Ruonan tested the upgraded Scavenger Group system with the Six Ministers, then joined them in the Imperial Study. As the ministers asked Emperor Deyuan about the Third Prince, her Light Screen revealed that the Third Prince had delayed excavating the Previous Dynasty Treasure until Jian Chuxue recovered.

• Jian Ruonan made the Marquis's Brother-in-law and Wang Defa Scavenger Group administrators, then kicked Pei Junfei out and added him back, briefly cutting off his ability to hear her thoughts and read his colleagues' looks.
• The Six Ministers accompanied Jian Ruonan to the Imperial Study, where Pei Junfei learned they had come to seek military funding and Chief Minister Su Blue-Balls said he wanted to ask about the Third Prince.
• Emperor Deyuan welcomed Jian Ruonan warmly but asked the ministers why they had come; Chief Minister Su Blue-Balls asked what role the Third Prince would have after his confinement ended.
• Jian Ruonan's Light Screen showed the Third Prince and his adviser discussing the First Imperial Prince's imprisonment and plans to excavate the Previous Dynasty Treasure.
• The Third Prince postponed the excavation until Jian Chuxue recovered from her injuries, and Jian Ruonan closed the Light Screen after hearing the plan had been delayed.

Emperor Deyuan summoned the Third Prince after suspecting his parentage, but Jian Ruonan’s anticipation of a blood test and Consort Yi’s steamy encounter was thwarted by the system’s age restriction. The chapter ended with Black Tortoise offering Jian Ruonan a way to watch through the Fourth Prince by holding his hand.

• Emperor Deyuan ordered a bowl of clean water for a blood test with the Third Prince, then canceled it after hearing Jian Ruonan think the method was unreliable.
• Jian Ruonan eagerly anticipated seeing Consort Yi and Emperor Deyuan together, and the Light Screen showed their flirtation before Mosaic obscured the scene.
• Jian Ruonan asked Dog System and Black Tortoise why the video was censored, and Black Tortoise explained that she was under eighteen.
• Black Tortoise told Jian Ruonan she could watch through the Fourth Prince if she held his hand and connected with Black Tortoise’s system.

Jian Ruonan tried to watch an adult film but learned the system barred her until both her body and soul were adults, then proposed a costly Maiden Army to Emperor Deyuan. The emperor refused to fund it from the treasury and urged her to find steady revenue, leaving Jian Ruonan ready to make a money-making proposal that would involve him and the imperial family.

• Black Tortoise System told Dantai Mo that Jian Ruonan planned to hold his hand, while Dantai Mo suspected the turtle had done something foolish.
• Jian Ruonan discovered that the system would not let her watch adult material until both her body and soul were adults, despite her protests that her soul was twenty-two.
• Jian Ruonan told Emperor Deyuan she wanted to build a Maiden Army and requested about two million taels in annual military funding.
• Jian Ruonan defended the army’s high costs, while Emperor Deyuan pointed out that garrisons were expected to support their own troops and suggested using confiscated gambling revenue.
• Emperor Deyuan urged Jian Ruonan to devise a steady source of income, and she said her plan would require him and the imperial family to take the lead and contribute.

Jian Ruonan introduced the Honeycomb Coal Plan and drew Emperor Deyuan, the six ministers, and the harem consorts into making Briquette Coal in the Imperial Study. When the Third Prince arrived, her thoughts revealed that she had gathered everyone to watch a blood-drop kinship test.

• Jian Ruonan pitched the New Energy Plan, showed the court a glimpse of a steam train and factory assembly lines, and revealed that her project was the Honeycomb Coal Plan.
• The six ministers volunteered to join the project, and Emperor Deyuan summoned the Empress Dowager and the harem consorts to the Imperial Study.
• The Empress Dowager hurried over after hearing the plan could benefit the people and earn money, then found the emperor and ministers making coal briquettes.
• Jian Ruonan assigned the consorts to carry finished Briquette Coal and mix coal powder while the Empress Dowager recorded their output.
• A young eunuch announced the Third Prince’s arrival, and Jian Ruonan paused the work as she anticipated a blood-drop kinship test with the harem consorts present.

Jian Ruonan arranged a mock paternity-test scene in the Imperial Study as Emperor Deyuan confronted the Third Prince over suspicions about his parentage. She used her thoughts to make it seem that Wei Liren accused Consort Xian of adultery, then revealed that the supposed lover was an Imperial Prince of the Wa Kingdom.

• Jian Ruonan cleared the briquette-making materials from the Imperial Study and arranged the room for a paternity test.
• The Third Prince entered in mourning, and the Empress Dowager comforted him while Jian Ruonan's thoughts exposed his apparent weight gain and crooked height-increasing insoles.
• The Empress Dowager urged Emperor Deyuan not to take his anger at Consort Xian out on the Third Prince, while Emperor Deyuan summoned Wei Liren to report his discoveries.
• When Wei Liren stayed silent, Jian Ruonan imitated his voice in everyone's minds and made him appear to accuse Consort Xian of adultery.
• Jian Ruonan's imagined testimony identified the adulterer as an Imperial Prince of the Wa Kingdom.

Wei Liren exposed the Third Prince’s Wa Kingdom parentage, and Jian Ruonan’s vision revealed Consort Xian’s affair with Mechuan Kuchazi. The Third Prince’s identity remained without physical proof until Wei Liren pointed to evidence of his contact with a Wa Kingdom spy in the Third Prince’s Residence.

• Wei Liren said Consort Xian had been close to a prince of the Wa Kingdom, while the Empress Dowager demanded evidence and denied his accusation.
• Jian Ruonan’s vision showed Consort Xian meeting the Wa Kingdom’s Crown Prince, Mechuan Kuchazi, at Jade Buddha Temple twenty years earlier.
• Jian Ruonan’s vision revealed that Consort Xian and Mechuan Kuchazi had been lovers, and the Third Prince panicked as the Empress Dowager turned away from him.
• Wei Liren told Emperor Deyuan that the Third Prince had secretly contacted a Wa Kingdom spy and urged him to search the Third Prince’s Residence for evidence.

After the Third Prince was imprisoned over Consort Xian’s affair with Mechuan Kuchazi, Jian Ruonan demonstrated Briquette Coal and Consort Yi gave birth to a son. Emperor Deyuan named the baby Tantai Feng and put Jian Ruonan in charge of organizing Briquette Coal production and promotion, with Zang Chun appointed as a representative.

• Emperor Deyuan ordered the Third Prince bound and sent to prison, then dispatched people to search his residence for evidence.
• Jian Ruonan and the court tested Briquette Coal, observing its cleaner burn and longer lasting heat compared with ordinary coal.
• Consort Yi went into labor and gave birth to a healthy boy, whom Emperor Deyuan named Tantai Feng, nicknamed Briquette Coal.
• Emperor Deyuan assigned Jian Ruonan to lead Briquette Coal production, promotion, and sales.
• Jian Ruonan proposed representatives from the Imperial Household Department, the court, and the consorts, then appointed Zang Chun to represent the women.

Jian Ruonan’s Daughter Coal became a popular success, bringing in profits to fund the Maiden Army, while the imprisoned Third Prince encountered a tunnel-boring rescuer. The chapter ended with the flatbread seller reaching the Third Prince and addressing him as a subordinate.

• Jian Ruonan told the maids of Deer Song Courtyard that they could join the Daughter Coal enterprise as female officials and urged them to stand up for themselves.
• Chen Jingzhe mocked Daughter Coal, accepted a free sample, then returned to buy more after his family found it cheap and effective.
• Daughter Coal sold out and spread across Great Xia as Jian Ruonan’s factories expanded and she used her earnings to build the Maiden Army.
• The Third Prince and the imprisoned First Imperial Prince met in neighboring cells and exchanged news before going to sleep.
• The Third Prince felt vibrations beneath the prison and saw the flatbread seller emerge from a tunnel to rescue him.