Recaps

Jian Ruonan built a printing enterprise, exposed officials’ secrets, and supplied Dantai Mo with military innovations while their systems schemed around them. As Dantai Mo began walking again, Jian Ruonan uncovered a scandal threatening her brother Jian Huayuan’s engagement.

• Jian Ruonan shot black-clad attackers at the Taoist temple, then rejected Wang Defa as a potential match and led a group of young women to spy on Hua Shanyue, the Duke of Cheng'en, and Ge Wenyao.
• Jian Ruonan exposed the Duke of Cheng'en’s secret involvement with Ge Wenyao, and Hua Shanyue beat both men after discovering their arrangement.
• Jian Ruonan proposed a gossip magazine and movable-type printing, secured rare books from the Hanlin Officials, and established the successful Ruonan Printing House.
• Jian Ruonan gave Dantai Mo veterinary books and later saddle and stirrup plans, earning points as he recognized their value for livestock and Great Xia’s cavalry.
• Jian Ruonan recorded officials’ private scandals during court, causing An Honghui and Yan Jingwei to withdraw their arguments for appointing a crown prince.
• Dantai Mo used energy taken from Big System to strengthen his legs, stood from his wheelchair, and took two steps.
• Jian Ruonan and her siblings learned that Jian Huayuan wanted to break his engagement to marry pregnant Luo Shuirong, though Jian Ruonan’s thoughts revealed he was not the child’s father.
• Luo Shuirong tearfully asked Jian Huayuan’s family to let her leave, just as Jian Ruonan had predicted.

Jian Ruonan tried to protect Jian Huayuan from Luo Shuirong’s pregnancy scheme while navigating rival systems and court intrigue. At the New Year palace gathering, she exposed secrets and set a trap for the Third Prince, leaving him surrounded by titled ladies as Emperor Deyuan arrived.

• Jian Ruonan learned that the First Imperial Prince had fathered Luo Shuirong’s child and planned to frame Jian Huayuan, so she brought Dantai Mo an irrigation method and proposed a maritime trade venture.
• Jian Ruonan, Jian Huayuan, Teng, and Wang Defa followed Luo Shuirong to a courtyard, where Pu Jingyi’s rescue party and Luo Shuirong were drenched by an excrement trap.
• Jian Ruonan and the Eldest Princess rescued Yan Yichun from a pleasure boat, while Jian Ruonan and Dantai Mo’s systems established an energy link.
• Jian Ruonan discovered that Jian Chuxue had joined the Third Prince and supplied him with Fire Crossbow blueprints, then attended the palace New Year gathering.
• Jian Ruonan exposed palace secrets through her inner thoughts, and Consort Xian collapsed after revealing the Third Prince’s parentage and her assault by the crown prince of Wa Kingdom.
• Jian Ruonan won the princesses’ toys and treasures at High-Low, then learned that Pu Jingyi had arranged to drug her and entrap her with the Third Prince.
• Jian Ruonan avoided the knockout incense, put the unconscious eunuch in the bed, and hid as the Third Prince arrived believing she was beneath the quilt.
• Consort Wu brought titled ladies to expose the Third Prince, while Jian Ruonan created a display of Buddha images and Emperor Deyuan approached the side hall.

Jian Ruonan took on the Ministry of Revenue, disrupted a gambling operation, and uncovered scandal after scandal at Gao Shan’s flower banquet. The arc ended with Jian Ruonan and Dantai Mo secretly listening outside the outer study, where Dantai Mo stood up to get a better view.

• Emperor Deyuan exposed the Third Prince’s bedmate as a young eunuch, punished the prince and demoted Consort Wu, then arranged Jian Xilu’s marriage to Hou Yuchen.
• Jian Ruonan joined the Ministry of Revenue, rescued Zhang San’s wife from a gambling debt, and pursued a plan to stop gambling after the den’s cheating and illicit money came to light.
• Jian Ruonan struck Wu Zhi for insulting her colleagues and exposed his corruption, while Dantai Mo and the Black Tortoise System worked with Big System to help him recover.
• Jian Ruonan and Gao Shan competed over jewelry, and Jian Ruonan baited Gao Shan into buying outdated designs for an exorbitant price.
• Jian Ruonan’s family attended Gao Shan’s flower banquet, where Jian Ruonan discovered Dantai Mo’s legs had recovered and helped him earn points by touching and treating them.
• Jian Ruonan uncovered scandals among Marquis Wuyang’s family and realized Marquise Wuyang had switched the cups to expose Gao Shan’s drugged-wine plot and affair.
• Jian Ruonan followed Gao Shan and Marquis Wuyang toward the outer study with Dantai Mo, who stood up and carried his wheelchair through a narrow grove so they could listen at the window.

Jian Ruonan exposed Marquis Wuyang’s crimes, struck a bargain with the Black Tortoise System, and became embroiled in court politics. Her proposal for dividing the fiefs won imperial approval and earned her a promotion that left her dreading daily court attendance.

• Dantai Mo investigated the scandal at Marquis Wuyang’s estate, where Gao Shan was exposed in the Marquis’s bed and the Heir of Marquis Wuyang collapsed after swallowing a crayfish.
• Jian Ruonan’s revelations helped expose Marquis Wuyang’s false charges and the murder of the Marquise’s childhood sweetheart, and Dantai Mo ordered the suspects sent to the Ministry of Justice.
• Jian Ruonan and Teng launched Warm Jade scented soap, which became a luxury success while Jian Chuxue’s competing soap failed.
• Jian Ruonan uncovered Mister Ouyang’s plan to use the Third Prince to find the Previous Dynasty Treasure and confronted the Black Tortoise System about its energy theft.
• Black Tortoise revealed Dantai Mo’s interest in Jian Ruonan and tried to coach him, while Jian Ruonan made the system promise to report his actions.
• At court, Emperor Deyuan approved Jian Ruonan’s proposal for 208 days off, then struggled to find an official willing to lead the anti-gambling campaign until Shi Fan accepted the post.
• Dantai Mo asked Jian Ruonan for advice on abolishing the fiefs, and she proposed an Order of Favorable Succession that divided a vassal kingdom’s lands among its sons over time.
• Emperor Deyuan announced Jian Ruonan’s proposal, appointed her Grand Council Secretary and Attendant at the Imperial Court, and promised she would assist Shi Fan’s anti-gambling campaign.