Chapter Summaries

Jian Ruonan and Jian Chuyun went to visit Zi Azha, who mistook their actions for attempts to attract his attention. The chapter ended with the sisters arriving at his guest room and being invited inside.

• The Marquis's Brother-in-law, Wang Defa, and Teng secretly watched Zi Azha's Latin Divine Skill, leaving the onlookers stunned.
• Jian Chuyun spent more than two hours dressing up to visit Zi Azha, while Jian Ruonan returned to Deer Song Courtyard to wait.
• Jian Ruonan took Jian Chuyun to visit Zi Azha on her Harley Motorcycle, and Jian Chuyun's perfume overwhelmed Jian Ruonan.
• Zi Azha waited for Jian Ruonan and assumed her delay was meant to whet his appetite.
• Jian Ruonan and Jian Chuyun arrived at Zi Azha's residence, and he welcomed them inside.

Jian Ruonan examined Zi Azha while Jian Chuyun, Dantai Mo, and others crowded into the guest room to watch. The chapter ended with Jian Ruonan warning the heir not to tug on his balls while dancing the Latin dance.

• Dantai Mo, Teng, Hou Lixie, and Wang Defa followed Jian Ruonan and Jian Chuyun into Zi Azha's guest room, refusing to leave despite Zi Azha's attempts to send them away.
• Jian Ruonan drew a sawfish and compared it to Zi Azha, while insisting she had no interest in catching him.
• Jian Ruonan demanded and accepted her consultation fee before preparing to examine Zi Azha.
• Jian Ruonan used a silk thread to take Zi Azha's pulse so she would not have to touch his wrist directly.
• Jian Ruonan told Zi Azha to avoid tugging on his balls while doing the Latin dance.

Jian Ruonan's thoughts and images on the Light Screen made Zi Azha believe she was secretly in love with him, while Jian Chuyun worried about his health and asked for acupuncture. The chapter ended with Zi Azha stripping down and posing for Jian Ruonan, who thought he was sexually harassing her like a sawfish.

• Jian Ruonan explained Latin to Jian Chuyun by showing an image of Zi Azha swinging on a horizontal bar, and Black Tortoise improvised a crude poem about it.
• Zi Azha saw the Light Screen and believed Jian Ruonan's thoughts revealed her love for him, while the others could see the display too.
• Jian Chuyun worried that Zi Azha had injured himself and asked Jian Ruonan to treat him with acupuncture.
• Jian Ruonan prepared her equipment while an acupuncture tutorial appeared on the Light Screen, and Zi Azha mistook her preparations for an attempt to touch him.
• Jian Ruonan asked Zi Azha to remove his clothes, and he stripped down to a bright red stomach wrap and posed for her.

Jian Ruonan gave Zi Azha a disastrous needle treatment before entering the palace, where Emperor Deyuan asked her to help catch a gang of sexual predators. She recognized Commander Yin Yushu as a man whose concubines were having affairs, setting up the next revelation.

• Jian Ruonan used a bamboo tube to shoot needles at Zi Azha, leaving him covered in punctures and convinced she had no feelings for him.
• Jian Ruonan entered the Imperial Study, where Emperor Deyuan was furious over a gang targeting women in wealthy households ahead of the Longevity Celebration.
• Emperor Deyuan praised Jian Ruonan's advice to catch and behead the predators, then asked Commander Yin Yushu to explain the case.
• Jian Ruonan recognized Yin Yushu as the man with fifteen concubines, ten of whom were having affairs.

Jian Ruonan exposed how Lord Yin’s favoritism toward his cousin concubine let his wife recruit fifteen concubines to serve his mother, while the crowded household led the concubines to take lovers. Her account then revealed that Concubine Wei had cuckolded Jian Ruonan’s father, who punished Jian Ruonan’s mother over Wei’s miscarried child.

• Jian Ruonan explained that Lord Yin had asked his new wife to care for his mother, so Lady Yin arranged for his concubines to take turns serving the old madam.
• Jian Ruonan revealed that Lord Yin favored his cousin concubine, who controlled the household and helped other concubines bring their lovers home.
• Jian Ruonan described how Lord Yin’s many concubines competed for his attention despite his infrequent visits, and several had affairs.
• Jian Ruonan compared Lord Yin to her own father and revealed that Concubine Wei had cuckolded him, yet he had made Jian Ruonan’s mother copy scriptures for Wei’s miscarried child.

Jian Ruonan helped Lord Yin investigate his concubines after divining that they were having affairs, then exposed his noble concubine cousin’s lover as the maid beside her. The maid’s true identity was revealed to be a man, leaving the household and ministers stunned.

• Jian Ruonan told the court that the sexual predator would not strike that night because he had fled to the mountains, and she planned to catch him when he returned.
• After hearing that the Yin Family’s concubines were having affairs, Lord Yin rushed home while Jian Ruonan and the ministers followed him to a teahouse across the street.
• Lord Yin checked his household and learned that several concubines had gone out to meet lovers, then invited Jian Ruonan and the ministers inside for help.
• Jian Ruonan divined that Lord Yin’s noble concubine cousin, Concubine Shanshan, was also cheating, despite her protests and the Old Madam’s defense of her.
• Jian Ruonan pointed to Concubine Shanshan’s maid as her lover, then revealed that the maid was actually a man.

Jian Ruonan exposed the high-ranking concubine’s attendant Qiu Lu as a man, forcing Official Yin to confront the disorder and infidelity in his household. Official Yin sent the guilty concubines to the authorities and transferred household management to Madam Zhu.

• Jian Ruonan flipped a table to silence the Old Madam and ordered Qiu Lu examined by older servant women.
• The servant women confirmed Qiu Lu was a man, and the high-ranking concubine begged Official Yin to spare her.
• The Old Madam tried to excuse her niece Shanshan and limit her punishment to six months of confinement.
• Official Yin ordered every concubine involved in wrongdoing sent to the authorities and put his mother under the care of a managing nanny.
• Official Yin handed all household management to Madam Zhu.

Young Shi-shi and Wu-shi tried to arrange a marriage between Jian Ruonan and Wu-shi’s eldest son, hoping to secure a wealthy, influential match. Jian Ruonan uncovered that the young man was already pledged to another woman, who was pregnant, and the family planned to meet her parents that day.

• After Zi Azha moved out of the Jinyang Marquis's Residence, Jian Chuyun blamed Jian Ruonan for ruining her match and Young Shi-shi called in Wu-shi to help her retaliate.
• Young Shi-shi and Wu-shi persuaded the Old Madam to summon Min so they could discuss Jian Ruonan’s marriage without her knowledge.
• Jian Ruonan arrived at the Old Madam’s courtyard with Min and rejected the idea of marriage, listing her demanding requirements for a husband.
• Young Shi-shi proposed Wu-shi’s handsome, scholarly eldest son, and Jian Ruonan discovered through the Melon Patch that he had already pledged himself to a pregnant woman.
• Jian Ruonan revealed that the eldest son and his pregnant partner planned to meet her parents that day, leaving Young Shi-shi and Wu-shi stunned.

Jian Ruonan persuaded Wu-shi and Young Shi-shi to take her to see Shi Jiang at his school, where they discovered him secretly embracing and kissing another man. Wu-shi tried to explain away what they saw as Jian Ruonan watched with delighted curiosity.

• Jian Ruonan pretended to be smitten with Shi Jiang and asked to glimpse him at the private school.
• Shi Jiang secretly met a man named Qingqing in the grove and promised to take him to meet his parents.
• Jian Ruonan insisted the group use the back gate and led them into the bamboo grove, where they spotted Shi Jiang with another man.
• Wu-shi and Young Shi-shi denied that the man was Shi Jiang until Jian Chuyun recognized him.
• Shi Jiang held the other man's hand, then embraced and kissed him while the family watched from behind an ornamental rock.
• Wu-shi claimed Shi Jiang was helping his classmate, and Jian Ruonan sarcastically suggested he was sucking out a fish bone.

Wu-shi discovered Shi Jiang kissing A Yan and learned that the two intended to marry, but Jian Ruonan’s thoughts hinted that A Yan had a shocking secret identity. Wu-shi agreed to meet A Yan’s mother, and the gossiping group stayed to see what would happen next.

• Wu-shi interrupted Shi Jiang and A Yan kissing, then learned that A Yan was a girl and Shi Jiang’s beloved.
• Shi Jiang explained that A Yan was his teacher’s granddaughter and vowed to marry no one else, even threatening to leave the capital with her.
• Jian Ruonan’s thoughts revealed that A Yan’s identity held a secret, leading Wu-shi to wonder if she was an important noble’s daughter.
• Wu-shi asked Shi Jiang to bring A Yan’s mother so their parents could discuss the marriage, and he eagerly agreed.
• As the group prepared to leave, Jian Ruonan’s thoughts warned that the real show was beginning, so everyone stayed while she sent Chen Pozi to fetch someone.

Shi Hong and Li Wei recognized each other as the parents gathered to discuss Shi Jiang and A Yan’s marriage, and the hidden history between them came to light. Li Wei revealed that A Yan was Shi Hong’s daughter, leaving Shi Jiang and A Yan stunned to learn they were half-siblings.

• Shi Hong arrived at the Private School and recognized A Yan’s mother, Li Wei, while the Gossip Watchers realized A Yan was his daughter.
• Shi Hong learned that Shi Jiang and A Yan had become lovers, and he initially objected before recognizing Li Wei and reconsidering the marriage.
• Jian Ruonan’s inner voice revealed that Shi Hong and Li Wei had fallen in love eighteen years earlier, and Li Wei had given birth to his child.
• Li Wei refused the marriage and tried to take A Yan away, but A Yan announced that she was carrying Shi Jiang’s child.
• Wu-shi warned that blood siblings could not marry, and Li Wei confirmed through tears that A Yan was Shi Hong’s daughter.

Jian Ruonan investigated whether Shi Jiang and A Yan could marry after learning their families were entangled, and the room discovered that Shi Wu'ai was Shi Jiang's biological father. A Light Screen revealed that Wu-shi, disguised as a maid, had slept with a drunken Shi Wu'ai, leaving the truth of Shi Jiang's parentage unresolved.

• Li Wei told A Yan how Shi Hong had come to be her father, and A Yan fainted from shock.
• Jian Ruonan announced that Shi Jiang and A Yan were not biological siblings, then summoned Shi Wu'ai and asked whether he approved of their marriage.
• Li Wei noticed that Shi Jiang resembled Shi Wu'ai, prompting Shi Hong to accuse his friend of violating Wu-shi; Shi Wu'ai and Wu-shi both denied wrongdoing.
• Jian Ruonan made Shi Wu'ai swear he had never violated Wu-shi, and spring thunder frightened everyone when he swore his innocence.
• Jian Ruonan explained that Shi Wu'ai had unknowingly slept with Wu-shi while she was disguised as a maid, and the Light Screen showed Wu-shi seducing him while he was drunk.

Jian Ruonan exposed Wu-shi and Shi Wu'ai's affair, confirmed Shi Jiang's parentage, and cleared the way for Shi Jiang and A Yan to marry. After upgrading the Dog System, she discovered it could now detect the Fourth Prince and hear his conversations with Black Tortoise.

• Jian Ruonan recounted Wu-shi and Shi Wu'ai's night together in detail until Wu-shi confessed, then declared that Shi Jiang was Shi Wu'ai's son.
• Jian Ruonan told Shi Jiang and A Yan they were not siblings and could marry, while Shi Hong accepted the complicated family outcome without divorcing Wu-shi.
• Jian Ruonan paid off her loan and spent points to upgrade the Dog System.
• The upgraded Hou System still could not remove the Mosaic from the video, but it said it could detect Black Tortoise and hear his conversations with the Fourth Prince.
• Hou System warned Jian Ruonan that the Fourth Prince would arrive soon, and she decided to listen in on whether Black Tortoise had been bad-mouthing her.

After his legs recovered, Dantai Mo sought his mother’s help in pursuing Jian Ruonan, then visited her residence while secretly hoping to assist her investigation. Jian Ruonan and the Hou System discovered that they could hear Dantai Mo and the Black Tortoise System, but the pair could no longer hear her conversations with her system.

• Jian Ruonan celebrated the Maiden Army’s promotions with extra pay, while the Black Tortoise System reassured Dantai Mo that she would not marry soon.
• Consort Yan questioned Dantai Mo about marriage, learned he loved Jian Ruonan, and agreed to hold Emperor Deyuan back while Dantai Mo tried to win her over.
• Dantai Mo got Emperor Deyuan’s permission to help Jian Ruonan catch a sexual predator, then went to her residence and waited in the reception hall.
• Jian Ruonan and the Hou System overheard Dantai Mo and the Black Tortoise System, and learned that the tortoise had stolen the Hou System’s energy.
• The Black Tortoise System wondered why Jian Ruonan was silent, and Jian Ruonan realized that it and Dantai Mo had previously been able to hear her conversations with the Hou System.

Jian Ruonan met Dantai Mo to discuss the sexual predator case and went with him to the Central City Military Command. There, she revealed she could not read the case file and recognized the seconded lieutenant general Qu Huacan as a young man destined to flee his arranged marriage for someone who wore women's clothes.

• Jian Ruonan learned that Black Tortoise and Dantai Mo had been eavesdropping, then went to meet Dantai Mo at the reception hall.
• Dantai Mo told Jian Ruonan that the emperor had ordered him to assist with catching the sexual predator, and she suggested they discuss the case together.
• Jian Ruonan and Dantai Mo traveled to the Central City Military Command, where Black Tortoise tried to coach Dantai Mo into seducing her.
• Jian Ruonan asked the five Commanders for the case file but admitted she could not read it, prompting Qu Huacan to sneer at her and the Five City Garrison Command.
• Jian Ruonan learned that the young lieutenant general was Qu Huacan and recognized him as the man who planned to flee his arranged marriage for someone who liked wearing women's clothes.

Jian Ruonan discovered that the pockmarked sexual predators were spreading smallpox and mobilized the Five City Garrison Command to contain the outbreak. She and Dantai Mo reported the threat to Emperor Deyuan, where they found the emperor and six ministers wearing kinis.

• Qu Huacan proposed investigating the victims' enemies, but Jian Ruonan rejected his theory and realized the pockmarked men had smallpox and were deliberately spreading it.
• Jian Ruonan warned the Commanders, ordered the victims' households isolated, distributed masks, and sent people to inform the palace and check on the families.
• Soldiers reported that some victims had recovered from pox, six had developed pustules, and the six most recent victims were becoming ill.
• Jian Ruonan and Dantai Mo entered the palace to report the outbreak to Emperor Deyuan.
• Emperor Deyuan gathered the Imperial Medical Academy and Six Ministers, and Jian Ruonan saw that the emperor and ministers were wearing kinis.

Jian Ruonan explained how masks could help prevent smallpox as Emperor Deyuan and his ministers prepared for an epidemic plot targeting the Longevity Celebration. She revealed that cowpox inoculation could be safer and more effective than variolation, leaving Emperor Deyuan eager to hear her solution.

• Jian Ruonan entered the Imperial Study and found Emperor Deyuan, the ministers, and Cao Degui wearing Bikinis for protection against smallpox.
• Jian Ruonan taught the Imperial Physicians to make three-layer gauze Face Masks, distributed her remaining masks, and showed everyone how to use them.
• Jian Ruonan learned that a Prince of a Fief planned to spread smallpox during the Longevity Celebration and use the resulting chaos to seize power.
• The director of the Imperial Medical Academy described variolation, and Jian Ruonan warned that it was risky before suggesting cowpox inoculation as a safer, fully effective method.
• Emperor Deyuan asked Jian Ruonan to explain her solution.

Jian Ruonan used a staged divine ritual to persuade Emperor Deyuan and the court to adopt cowpox inoculation, while Zi Azha plotted to spread smallpox in the capital. After the palace and officials were inoculated, Jian Ruonan volunteered to capture Zi Azha and led her companions to a brothel where she planned to enter without paying.

• Jian Ruonan convinced Emperor Deyuan to hold a ritual, then explained cowpox inoculation and oversaw its rapid adoption in the palace and among court officials.
• Zi Azha learned that infected households had been quarantined and pockmarked people were being inspected, so he decided to carry smallpox materials into the capital himself.
• After Emperor Deyuan ordered Zi Azha's arrest, Jian Ruonan volunteered for the mission, with Dantai Mo, Top Graduate Hou, and Qu Huacan joining her.
• Jian Ruonan led the group to a brothel, claimed they had come to unwind, and insisted that entering without paying would not count as patronizing prostitutes.

Jian Ruonan and her companions entered a pleasure house to investigate suspected traitors, where Qu Huacan recognized the courtesan Yan Yu as his beloved Ruan. Yan Yu captivated the guests with her poetry, leaving Qu Huacan more determined than ever to flee his arranged marriage.

• The madam required a matching couplet before admitting Jian Ruonan, Dantai Mo, Qu Huacan, and Top Graduate Hou; Top Graduate Hou wrote the answer while Black Tortoise urged Dantai Mo to recite a lewd verse.
• Jian Ruonan said they wanted to vote for the courtesan queen, and Dantai Mo paid for two hundred flower tokens to secure them seats near the stage.
• Yan Yu appeared onstage, and Qu Huacan recognized her; Dantai Mo hid him under a tablecloth so she would not notice him.
• Yan Yu performed poetry, impressing the audience with her verses as Qu Huacan watched in awe and discarded his flower tokens.
• Qu Huacan's admiration for Yan Yu strengthened his resolve to flee his arranged marriage.

Jian Ruonan refused to pay to meet Yan Yu and instead wrote a poem, while her encounter with Fu Yongsi and Gao Yang turned into a public airing of Fu Yongsi’s humiliating secrets. Fu Yongsi leapt from the second floor, and Yan Yu wondered why the guests had abandoned their poems to listen to gossip.

• Jian Ruonan refused to spend money to meet Yan Yu and challenged the Black Tortoise System to a poem contest.
• Dantai Mo and Top Graduate Hou declined to write poems, while Qu Huacan hesitated over his own.
• Fu Yongsi and Gao Yang confronted Jian Ruonan, and she exposed Fu Yongsi’s humiliating marriage and private troubles to the nearby guests.
• A guest asked Fu Yongsi about Rouge, and Jian Ruonan revealed that he had paid her to fake moans.
• Fu Yongsi screamed and jumped from the second floor, leaving the guests and madam in an uproar.
• Yan Yu wondered why the guests were listening to gossip instead of working on poems to meet her.