Chapter Summaries

Jian Ruonan agreed to let Teng join her bandit-suppression trip after he begged, and assigned Wang Defa to capture one of the Japanese thieves. The thieves fell into a trap while trying to steal Jian Ruonan’s pouch, leaving them caught in the enormous pit.

• Jian Ruonan asked Teng to have Wang Defa capture one of the two Japanese thieves and let the other go.
• Teng begged to join Jian Ruonan’s bandit-suppression trip, and she persuaded Min to let him come along as a study tour.
• After assigning Wang Defa the capture task, Jian Ruonan stopped worrying about the Japanese thieves.
• Honda Sanlunzi and Yamagata Xiao Chi followed Xiaoyu to the Rear Corridor after she hung Jian Ruonan’s pouch on a drying rack.
• Honda Sanlunzi and Yamagata Xiao Chi tried to take the pouch but fell into an enormous pit.

Jian Ruonan rallied the Maiden Army and set out to suppress the bandits, dig up treasure, and capture the Third Prince. Meanwhile, Jian Chuxue tried to steal Jian Ruonan’s pouch and got her hand caught in a mousetrap.

• Honda Sanlunzi and Yamagata Xiao Chi fell into a pit trap, but Yamagata escaped and left Honda behind with his leg caught in a mousetrap.
• Jian Ruonan gave a fiery speech to the Maiden Army, displayed her fluency in Japanese, and denounced Honda Sanlunzi as a prisoner of war.
• Jian Ruonan activated her Tesla Coil and led the fired-up Maiden Army into battle.
• Jian Chuxue took Jian Ruonan’s pink pouch and caught her hand in a mousetrap hidden inside it.

Jian Chuxue suffered through a series of humiliating mishaps with the Wa Kingdom warriors, who prized cockroach eggs and her grandmother’s dudou. Meanwhile, Jian Ruonan demonstrated the Divine Staff’s power, leaving Dantai Mo awestruck and earning points from the Black Tortoise System; the chapter ended as the system urged him to smile at her.

• Jian Chuxue freed her hand from the Mousetrap, stepped on it, and demanded to know where Honda Sanlunzi was; Yamagata Xiao Chi claimed he had died for his country.
• Yamagata Xiao Chi showed the Wa Kingdom warriors a bundle of cockroach eggs, which they ate and praised as a delicacy.
• Yamagata Xiao Chi and the warriors passed around a red dudou embroidered with the name Yi Qiao, while Jian Chuxue realized it had belonged to her grandmother, Shi Yiqiao.
• Jian Ruonan raised the Divine Staff and called down lightning, shocking Dantai Mo and triggering repeated point rewards.
• Dantai Mo wondered if Jian Ruonan was a goddess, but the Black Tortoise System told him she was human and urged him to smile at her for more points.

Jian Ruonan used her Lightning Staff to force Honda Sanlunzi to admit that the staff and divine pouch belonged to her, then prepared to lead the Maiden Army on a bandit-suppression campaign. She set out with an extravagant entourage and accepted Commandery Princess Jiarou after learning she had brought military funds.

• Jian Ruonan repeatedly electrocuted Honda Sanlunzi until he called Mr. Snow the thief and acknowledged that the Lightning Staff and divine pouch belonged to her.
• Jian Ruonan announced that the Maiden Army would use the mountain bandits for practice, and Emperor Deyuan tearfully saw her off.
• Captain Xue distributed baskets of food and supplies to the soldiers, while Jian Ruonan warned Honda Sanlunzi not to touch the live pigs loaded onto his cart.
• Jian Ruonan prepared to bring an enormous entourage, including Tangyuan, Plum Blossom, Chen Pozi, Wu Yehe, her son Gas Canister, and household staff.
• Jian Ruonan initially refused Commandery Princess Jiarou's request to join the expedition, then changed her mind when Jiarou's servants presented chests of gold as military funds.

Jian Ruonan set out with Commandery Princess Jiarou and her companions, while Dantai Mo joined their carriage and discovered they were playing mahjong. The journey continued with Jian Ruonan winning the first hand after Dantai Mo discarded a tile that helped her, leaving him embarrassed when Commandery Princess Jiarou exposed his play.

• Jian Ruonan escorted Commandery Princess Jiarou into the carriage after accepting her military funds, and the Maiden Army departed Capital City.
• Dantai Mo joined Jian Ruonan's carriage, stopped pretending to be paralyzed, and took Wang Defa's seat beside her.
• Jian Ruonan introduced mahjong as a strategy game called Building the Great Wall and collected silver as military funding.
• Jian Ruonan called pong on Dantai Mo's discarded three of characters, preventing Commandery Princess Jiarou from winning.
• Jian Ruonan won with an all-one-suit, all-triplets hand, and Commandery Princess Jiarou revealed that Dantai Mo had discarded a tile from a useful sequence.

Jian Ruonan won big at mahjong while Commandery Princess Jiarou learned that the Third Prince might betray her. Meanwhile, the Great Circle Army prepared to face the Maiden Army, dismissing its camp as a picnic as Jian Chuxue plotted to seize Jian Ruonan’s space.

• Teng shuffled tiles for Jian Ruonan, who won several rounds with Dantai Mo feeding her tiles.
• Jian Ruonan’s thoughts revealed that the Third Prince would swindle Commandery Princess Jiarou and leave her to die in the Cold Palace, alarming Jiarou.
• Teng suggested that Jiarou team up with Wang Defa, and they argued over who would assist whom.
• The Great Circle Army’s scout reported that the Maiden Army was setting up camp five li from Coiling Dragon Mountain and preparing a feast.
• Le Yu mocked the Maiden Army and vowed to defeat it, while Jian Chuxue resolved to take Jian Ruonan’s space.

Jian Ruonan’s army prepared a lavish meal and tested her new popcorn machine while Dantai Mo cooked for her, hoping to win her affection. The popcorn cannon’s first deafening blast startled Tokugawa Dajiao, Yoshikawa Kudan, and Le Yu, who had secretly approached the camp.

• Jian Ruonan stopped Commandery Princess Jiarou and Wang Defa from continuing their mahjong game, then learned Dantai Mo had gone to the kitchen.
• Dantai Mo prepared Sichuan dishes for Jian Ruonan while she watched him cook, and the Maiden Army prepared fresh meat for lunch.
• Jian Ruonan brought out her All-in-One Popcorn Cannon Machine and taught Abbot Li to operate it as Wu Yehe held Gas Canister.
• Abbot Li heated the machine until it reached ten units of pressure, then fired it and burst the popcorn out with a loud bang.
• Tokugawa Dajiao, Yoshikawa Kudan, and Le Yu approached the camp, and Le Yu wondered what the supposed picnic was doing.

Jian Ruonan tested a popcorn cannon by blasting a whole chicken, which flew across the camp and landed in Le Yu’s mouth. Honda Sanlunzi’s rescue went awry as he lost his chance to eat the chicken and grew furious with Le Yu.

• Le Yu mistook the noise of Jian Ruonan’s popcorn cannon for an enemy cooking accident and ordered the Great Circle Army to charge.
• Jian Ruonan and Abbot Li made puffed rice and popcorn, while Dantai Mo realized the lightweight, long-lasting food could serve as military rations.
• At Teng’s request, Jian Ruonan had Abbot Li blast a whole chicken from the cannon, then sent everyone to search for it when it disappeared.
• Tokugawa Dajiao and Yoshikawa Kudan planned to drug the camp while Le Yu went to rescue Honda Sanlunzi, who was reluctant to leave because he enjoyed the food.
• The flying chicken struck and went into Le Yu’s mouth as Honda Sanlunzi tried to catch it, leaving Sanlunzi furious that Le Yu had eaten his chicken.

Le Yu was captured by Jian Ruonan after a chicken stretched his mouth, and she mistook him and two Japanese infiltrators for Indians. The chapter ended with Le Yu leading Tokugawa Dajiao and Yoshikawa Kudan in a song and dance to avoid execution while Jian Ruonan and her companions ate.

• A chicken stretched Le Yu's mouth, and soldiers brought him before Jian Ruonan as a suspected spy.
• Jian Ruonan ordered Le Yu beheaded, but paused when he claimed his father came from India and demanded that he prove it by singing and dancing.
• Commander Wang brought in Tokugawa Dajiao and Yoshikawa Kudan, who had tried to put Knockout Drug in the food.
• Jian Ruonan decided the three men were Indians and threatened to behead them unless they performed before the meal.
• Le Yu led Tokugawa Dajiao and Yoshikawa Kudan in a song and dance while Jian Ruonan and the others ate.

Jian Ruonan turned three enemy captives into performers for the Maiden Army by convincing them they had swallowed deadly poison. After revealing the “pills” were ordinary candy and their stomachaches came from overeating chicken, she founded the Maiden Army Song and Dance Troupe and ordered them to perform daily.

• Le Yu and the two Wa Kingdom generals finished their bizarre performance, and Jian Ruonan explained who the captives were while everyone ate.
• Jian Ruonan proposed keeping the men as a song and dance troupe, then fed them ordinary candy while claiming it was a Gut-Rotting Death Pill.
• Le Yu and the two generals developed stomachaches after eating a whole chicken following years without meat, and Jian Ruonan explained the real cause to the others.
• Jian Ruonan ordered the captives to perform two songs every day, establishing the Maiden Army Song and Dance Troupe with Le Yu as lead singer.

Jian Chuxue planned to use a Fire Ox Formation against Jian Ruonan’s Maiden Army, but ordered a feigned surrender while scrambling to obtain the thousands of oxen she needed. Meanwhile, the four defected lords suffered in the Maiden Army’s pigpen and clutched their stomachs after eating.

• Jian Chuxue learned that Le Yu, Tokugawa Dajiao, Yoshikawa Kudan, and Honda Sanlunzi had defected to the Maiden Army and been made to sing and dance.
• Jian Chuxue announced the Fire Ox Formation, then told Ge Ou to offer a feigned surrender to catch the Maiden Army off guard.
• Jian Chuxue explained that the formation required at least five thousand oxen, and she gave Ge Ou her savings to help acquire them.
• In the Maiden Army camp, the four defected lords ate leftover food in a pigpen and discussed rehearsing their song and dance.
• The four lords suddenly clutched their stomachs and cried out for the antidote.

Jian Ruonan uncovered Jian Chuxue’s plan to feign surrender while gathering cattle for a Fire Ox Formation, but she stayed relaxed as the Maiden Army prepared. Five days later, she revealed her countermeasure: dose the cattle’s fodder with an aphrodisiac and Multiple-Birth Pills.

• Jian Ruonan learned that the Great Circle Army had submitted a surrender letter, then used her glowing gossip screen to discover Jian Chuxue was buying cattle for a Fire Ox Formation.
• Jian Ruonan had Ge Ou imprisoned with Le Yu and the Wa warriors, while Commander Wang and his officers spent the night studying the formation and decided to avoid it.
• Jian Ruonan ignored Captain Xue’s warnings about the Fire Ox Formation while playing mahjong and enjoying time with her pandas.
• After five days of waiting, Jian Ruonan ordered the Marquis's Brother-in-law, Captain Xue, Commander Wang, Dantai Mo, and Wang Defa to mix a potent aphrodisiac into the cattle’s fodder.
• Jian Ruonan added Multiple-Birth Pills to the plan, ordering her officers to crush them and mix them into the cattle’s feed as well.

Jian Ruonan prepared rare Multiple-Birth Pills for the cattle and promised Captain Xue help with his family’s heirs, while the Maiden Army anticipated a beef feast. The Wa Kingdom’s generals and Le Yu learned that their Indian cover story meant they could not eat beef, and a quarrel over their loyalties erupted after Ge Ou revealed the Fire Ox Formation.

• Jian Ruonan explained that the Multiple-Birth Pills could ensure conception and multiple births, and Captain Xue secretly tried to take some for himself.
• Jian Ruonan promised to find a solution for Captain Xue’s family and ordered the Maiden Army to prepare radishes, potatoes, and seasonings for a beef feast.
• The Maiden Army and their Wa Kingdom allies eagerly anticipated eating beef, but Le Yu reminded the Wa generals that their Indian disguise meant they could not eat cattle.
• Ge Ou revealed that Mr. Snow had feigned surrender and planned to use the Fire Ox Formation against the Maiden Army, then berated the Wa generals for being won over by food.
• Honda Sanlunzi struck at Ge Ou, and the dispute over food and loyalty turned into a fight.

Jian Chuxue prepared five thousand armed cattle for a Fire Ox Formation, but Jian Ruonan sabotaged their fodder with drugs that sent the bulls into a mating frenzy. The cattle slaughtered one another, destroying the formation and allowing the Maiden Army to defeat it without losing a soldier.

• Jian Chuxue learned that the Maiden Army was celebrating and planned to launch her Fire Ox Formation at Flat-Top Slope.
• Jian Ruonan had Wang Defa and Honda Sanlunzi tunnel to the cattle and drug their fodder.
• The drugged cattle turned on one another, and the armed bulls fought over the cows until most were dead.
• The surviving Great Circle Army soldiers fled, and the Maiden Army broke the Fire Ox Formation without losing anyone.

After Jian Ruonan’s scheme broke the Fire Ox Formation, she woke to an all-beef feast and heard how the enemy had been defeated. She arranged for Tong County locals to care for the surviving cattle, then had suspicious captives eat the beef first to confirm it was safe.

• Jian Ruonan woke at noon, learned that Le Yu and Ge Ou had been captured, and heard how exhausted cattle and Jian Chuxue’s injury had ended the enemy’s attack.
• Teng, Captain Xue, and other subordinates praised Jian Ruonan, who proposed paying locals to tend the surviving cattle and use the remaining bulls to plow their fields.
• Jian Ruonan explained that the drugged cattle’s effects had mostly worn off and suggested testing the beef on the Wa Kingdom warriors and Great Circle Army captives.
• Captain Xue threatened to behead anyone who refused, and the Wa Kingdom warriors and Le Yu theatrically ate the beef while pretending to be Indian natives.

After the Maiden Army drove Jian Chuxue from Coiling Dragon Mountain, its officers confronted Jian Ruonan about her carefree attitude toward the campaign. Their attempt to advise her turned into a gossip session that uncovered a startling secret about Captain Xue’s father.

• Captain Xue separated the Wa Kingdom prisoners from the bulls, then returned them to the pigpen after the feared drug-fueled lust never appeared.
• Jian Chuxue was injured while dragging a bull, lost troops when the Maiden Army’s bull strategy overwhelmed her forces, and fled toward Mechuan Yaokuzi for refuge.
• After the Maiden Army set out to capture Mechuan Yaokuzi, Commander Wang and several officers agreed to warn Jian Ruonan against underestimating the enemy.
• Jian Ruonan welcomed the officers’ advice while playing mahjong, and the group listened as her thoughts revealed Captain Xue’s frustration with having only one son.
• Jian Ruonan’s gossip uncovered that Captain Xue’s father had carried and breastfed him, shocking the listeners and prompting them to wonder about his father’s condition.

Jian Ruonan’s inner voice exposed Captain Xue’s family secret, causing him to abandon his planned remonstrance and praise her instead. Commander Wang asked about her military tactics, then Jian Ruonan’s gossip revealed that he had been expelled from the Duke of An’s estate for loving his father’s concubine.

• Jian Ruonan’s inner voice revealed that Captain Xue’s father was actually his mother, and Captain Xue nervously switched from criticizing her to praising her.
• Jian Ruonan encouraged Captain Xue and asked the remaining officers to speak, while the captains stepped back and left Commander Wang exposed.
• Commander Wang asked Jian Ruonan about her plans for the next stage, and she claimed that she and Prince Rui already had a foolproof plan.
• Jian Ruonan’s inner voice revealed that Commander Wang was the legitimate eldest son of the Duke of An and had been kicked out after arguing with his father.
• Jian Ruonan’s gossip revealed that Commander Wang loved his father’s concubine, and her inner voice concluded that the Duke had dragged him out from under a bed.

Jian Ruonan’s army watched the Light Screen reveal how Commander Wang was caught hiding beneath the Duke of An’s bed, then continued marching while she monitored Mechuan Yaokuzi. Mechuan’s oversized height-boosting insoles led him to twist his ankle and discover the tomb of the Previous Dynasty Imperial Family.

• Jian Ruonan’s Light Screen showed Commander Wang hiding under the bed while the Duke of An was with Concubine Wu, and a fart gave him away.
• Jian Ruonan delayed the march to watch Commander Wang’s reactions, while her soldiers carried him ahead and the Maiden Army later praised their general.
• Jian Ruonan watched Mechuan Yaokuzi reunite with Jian Chuxue and noticed him grow wary of her three tall officers.
• Mechuan Yaokuzi secretly made thirty-centimeter height-boosting insoles, and Jian Ruonan hurried her army onward to beat him to the treasure.
• After Jian Chuxue learned Mechuan Yaokuzi had promised Commandery Princess Jiarou the principal-wife position, she ran off, and Mechuan chased her in his insoles, twisted his ankle, and discovered the Previous Dynasty Imperial Family’s tomb.

Jian Ruonan ordered the prisoners to perform snake charming and fed them wild mushrooms to test whether they were safe. The chapter left her watching the poisoned prisoners’ bizarre performance for entertainment.

• Jian Ruonan asked her officers what they would do with treasure and approved a plan to send a small group up the mountain while the rest prepared to capture the rebels.
• Jian Ruonan ordered the captured Wa warriors and Great Circle Army men to charm snakes, and the prisoners reluctantly began rehearsing with green snakes.
• Jian Ruonan told the soldiers to feed different wild mushrooms to the six prisoners to see whether the mushrooms were edible.
• Yamagata Xiao Chi and three other prisoners were poisoned, and Jian Ruonan ordered a brazier and chair so she could watch their snake-charming performance.

Jian Ruonan learned that Jian Chuxue had developed powerful explosives and led the Maiden Army against her forces on Greenbrow Mountain. The battle began with Jian Chuxue’s explosives blasting a crater in front of the army, while Jian Ruonan prepared a defiant response.

• Tokugawa Dajiao, Ge Ou, and Yoshikawa Kudan performed with snakes after eating wild mushrooms, while Honda Sanlunzi and Le Yu were forced to accompany them as Dizi players.
• Mechuan Yaokuzi and Jian Chuxue finished digging up the Previous Dynasty tomb’s treasure, then learned that the Maiden Army had arrived at the foot of the mountain.
• Jian Ruonan woke, discovered that Jian Chuxue had hidden the treasure in a cave, and ordered the Italian Cannon prepared while the Maiden Army broadcast demands for surrender.
• Jian Chuxue ordered her men to use a long lever to hurl explosives down the mountain, and one blast carved a crater in front of the Maiden Army.
• Jian Ruonan shouted, “If you break my wings, I will destroy your heaven!”