Recaps

Jian Ruonan returned to the Jinyang Marquis’s Residence, exposed the schemes surrounding her family, and used her knowledge and system to secure her place there. The arc left her managing new farmland and crops as Min waited for news about Second Uncle’s arrest.

• Jian Ruonan escaped Madam Zhou’s plan to sell her and revealed that she was the Jinyang Marquis’s legitimate daughter, switched at birth with Jian Chuxue.
• Jian Ruonan sold Madam Zhou’s indenture contract, then found Min and warned her about Wei’s hidden pregnancy and planned miscarriage.
• Jian Zhang and Min confirmed Jian Ruonan’s identity, uncovered Wei’s affair with Jian Lang, and caught them together in the Plum Grove.
• Jian Ruonan settled into the Marquis’s household, while Jian Zhang and Min investigated Gao Yang’s fidelity and learned he had a mistress giving birth in Pagoda Tree Alley.
• Jian Ruonan’s medicine cured Madam Wang’s headache, and Dantai Mo discovered that contact with her restored sensation in his legs and let him hear her thoughts.
• Jian Zhang confronted Gao Yang at the birth house and broke off his engagement to Jian Xilu after Jian Ruonan exposed the affair and the Third Prince’s scheme.
• Jian Ruonan won an accounting contest, taught the household to manage its books and new crops, and asked Nanny Zhou to oversee her fields.
• At the old madam’s court, Jian Ruonan’s thoughts revealed that Second Uncle had been taken to the magistrate’s office, so Min stayed behind to await news.

Jian Ruonan’s inner thoughts exposed scandals throughout the Marquis’s household and helped Jian Zhang uncover corruption and a palace drugging plot. As the Eldest Princess’s banquet approached, Dantai Mo began regaining sensation in his legs while Jian Ruonan faced a plot to sabotage her performance.

• Jian Ruonan used her inner thoughts to expose household secrets, frighten the old madam, and protect Jian Zhang from pressure to surrender the marquisate.
• Jian Ruonan helped Jian Zhang uncover Censor Cao’s hidden wealth and exposed the eunuch who had drugged Emperor Deyuan.
• Jian Ruonan revealed the Shi family’s secret and the old madam’s affair, prompting Marquis Jian to reject Jian Xilu’s proposed marriage and transfer household management to Min.
• At the Eldest Princess’s banquet, Jian Ruonan and Dantai Mo encountered Xue Yuanyu, Su Haoyan, and Dantai Wuyang emerging disheveled from a rockery amid snakes.
• Jian Ruonan’s thoughts revealed Su Haoyan’s ties to the Third Prince and a plan to seize the throne, so Dantai Mo ordered surveillance of the Third Prince’s forces.
• Dantai Mo stood briefly and regained sensation in his legs, then ordered his recovery kept secret and sent Jian Ruonan five hundred taels of gold.
• Jian Ruonan discovered that her scissors and red paper had been stolen to sabotage her talent performance, then met the Third Prince, Dantai Huai, and earned points when her thoughts amused Dantai Mo.

Jian Ruonan exposed the Princess Royal’s child switch, corruption at court, and Shi Fan’s abuse of Madam Zhang while her thoughts became harder to conceal. She then introduced high-yield crops and went to Clear Void Abbey, where she exposed its Taoist frauds just as they prepared to target her.

• Jian Ruonan exposed Xue Yuanyu’s baby swap, and Emperor Deyuan had him taken into custody after recovering the Princess Royal’s biological daughter.
• At the imperial audience, Jian Ruonan’s thoughts exposed corrupt officials and hidden wealth, prompting Emperor Deyuan to order investigations and grant her permission to flip tables.
• Jian Ruonan revealed that Shi Fan had drugged Madam Zhang and fathered their five sons with Shi clan men, and Madam Zhang and the Zhang Family confronted him.
• Jian Ruonan’s thoughts exposed more scandals at court, while the Big System’s new functions let her control who could hear her gossip.
• Jian Ruonan showed Dantai Mo that potatoes and corn could produce abundant harvests, then used cattle-breeding methods and fed the Ninth Prince beef cooked with potatoes.
• Jian Ruonan went to Clear Void Abbey and exposed Daoist Zhang’s abuse of a black dog and fake beard, then revealed that Abbey Master Li’s ritual tricks concealed his past as a male courtesan.
• As Jian Ruonan lingered at the abbey, Dongshuang reported that Dowager Shi had fallen, and the Big System warned that Taoists were waiting to splash Jian Ruonan with black dog blood.

Jian Ruonan used her new court position and Imperial Sword to expose scandals, rescue the Eldest Princess from grief, and challenge the powerful people arranging marriages around her. The arc left her aware of a scheme by the Duke of Cheng'en and the Third Prince, with hired men poised to stage a rescue.

• Jian Ruonan frightened Old Madam Shi with staged ghostly appearances, then was summoned to court and named a Hanlin Attendant after her thoughts exposed the emperor’s and officials’ secrets.
• Jian Ruonan exposed Fu Yongsi’s schemes at the Hanlin Academy, and Dantai Mo granted Wu Yehe a divorce and punished those who framed her.
• Jian Ruonan showed Dantai Mo the sweet potato’s potential and helped the Eldest Princess recover from fasting by taking her to watch martial arts apprentices and join in games.
• Jian Ruonan received an Imperial Sword from Emperor Deyuan and used it to threaten Shu Zijing, cut off one of his fingers, and frighten Old Madam Shi into fainting.
• At her birthday banquet, Jian Ruonan’s system detected another system, while the Duke of Cheng'en and Pu Jingyi discussed arranging her marriage to the Third Prince.
• Jian Ruonan returned to Clear Void Abbey, warned its priests about poisonous pills, and gave them new schemes to pursue, while her family arranged a secret matchmaking meeting with Wang Defa.
• Jian Ruonan rejected the Third Prince’s advances and agreed to put knockout powder in his tea for Commandery Princess Jiarou.
• Abbot Li warned Jian Ruonan that trained men waited in the rear courtyard, and her system revealed that the Duke of Cheng'en planned a secret meeting with the Director of the Imperial College’s wife.