Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• After Madam Hou admits she deliberately arranged for Li Mo’er to be infected with the Infertility Gu, Su Zhimin is horrified. He learns that his mother caused the couple’s childlessness while knowingly watching them suffer.
• Madam Hou reveals her goal: to justify repudiating Mo’er, take her dowry, and ensure she would have no child tying her to the Marquis’s Residence.
• The townspeople condemn the scheme and urge Master Li to demand the dowry back and take the family to court if necessary.
• Master Li refuses to accept a repudiation letter, insisting instead on a Divorce Deed and the return of Mo’er’s entire dowry.
• Mo’er asks everyone to pause, sends Madam Hou away, and agrees to write the Divorce Deed. This is part of a plan she and her father had already arranged.
• Su Zhimin protests that he does not want to divorce Mo’er. When he tries to stop her, Master Li orders him gagged. Lan Yu’s people secretly immobilize him, and the older serving women restrain him.
• The townspeople continue urging Mo’er to leave, warning that yielding now will only bring further mistreatment.

Character developments

• Su Zhimin is devastated by his mother’s betrayal and realizes Mo’er is truly leaving him. His protests reveal his attachment, but he has little control over the situation.
• Madam Hou openly confirms her calculated cruelty and her desire to exploit Mo’er’s dowry.
• Li Mo’er takes charge, dismisses Madam Hou, and calmly proceeds toward divorce rather than being intimidated by the family.
• Master Li firmly protects his daughter, demands fair terms, and makes clear that she can live independently if she chooses.
• Lan Yu demonstrates foresight by having people ready to stop Su Zhimin from interfering.

Significant themes

• Betrayal within family: Madam Hou’s scheme turns a trusted mother into the source of the couple’s suffering.
• Women’s autonomy and protection: Mo’er’s father supports her choice to leave, while Mo’er herself directs the proceedings.
• Justice and public accountability: The townspeople’s outrage strengthens the Li family’s position and frames the Marquis’s actions as publicly shameful.
• Marriage as exploitation: The Marquis’s household treated marriage as a means to obtain Mo’er’s dowry and discard her afterward.

Character interactions

• Su Zhimin confronts Madam Hou over her deception, but she shows no remorse.
• Master Li challenges Madam Hou and Li Mo’er, demanding a Divorce Deed and the return of the dowry.
• Mo’er politely but firmly takes over the discussion, while her father backs her decision.
• Su Zhimin pleads with Mo’er and argues with Master Li, but Lan Yu’s allies and the serving women prevent him from stopping the divorce.
• The townspeople openly support Mo’er and condemn the Marquis’s Residence.

Key plot points and events

• Li Mo’er prepares a Divorce Deed in Su Zhimin’s handwriting, and Master Li verifies and stores it.
• Master Li produces the official, triplicate inventory of Li Mo’er’s dowry and begins reclaiming its contents. Items already used by the Marquis’s Residence must be repaid in cash or replaced.
• The Marquis’s finances are in poor shape: much of the dowry was spent covering its debts, while the rest is being taken back. The household may have to sell its possessions.
• Madam Hou learns what is happening and rushes to the Treasure Vault, trying to stop the inventory and insisting the dowry belongs to the Marquis’s Residence.
• Master Li points out that the dowry legally belongs to Li Mo’er and threatens to take the dispute to the authorities.
• Li Mo’er refuses to let the matter escalate. She orders the servants to remove Madam Hou, who resists and accuses Su Zhimin of being unfilial.

Character developments

• Li Mo’er acts decisively and confidently, using the formal divorce and dowry records to secure her independence. Her former patience with Madam Hou has vanished.
• Master Li proves prepared and protective of his daughter, backing her with documentation and legal knowledge.
• Madam Hou reveals her desperation and entitlement, having treated Li Mo’er’s dowry as household property.
• Song Yaoyao and Guagua observe and comment on the unfolding conflict. They confirm that the souls of Li Mo’er and Su Zhimin are expected to be swapped back after the divorce and dowry matters are settled.

Significant themes

• Women’s property rights and legal recourse: Li Mo’er’s registered dowry is legally hers, despite her husband’s family having used it.
• Greed and consequences: The Marquis’s Residence loses the support it took for granted after scheming against Li Mo’er.
• Self-determination and family loyalty: Li Mo’er chooses a clean break, while Master Li helps her enforce it.

Character interactions

• Master Li and Li Mo’er work together to formalize the divorce and reclaim the dowry.
• Master Li confronts Madam Hou with the law; Li Mo’er intervenes to prevent the dispute from going to the authorities.
• Madam Hou directs her anger at Li Mo’er and Su Zhimin, while the servants physically escort her away.
• Song Yaoyao and Guagua discuss the Marquis’s Residence’s likely financial collapse and the planned soul swap.

Plot points and events

• Madam Hou makes a public scene in an attempt to keep Li Mo’er’s dowry, but Li Mo’er orders the servants to remove her. The inventory then proceeds, with items already spent replaced by valuables from the Marquis’s Residence.
• Master Li takes the recovered dowry and Su Zhimin away. Li Mo’er leaves the Marquis’s Residence, and the crowd spreads news of the confrontation.
• Song Yaoyao and the constables watch from a teahouse across from the Great Fortune Gambling House, where Lan Yu performs the ritual to restore Li Mo’er and Su Zhimin to their original bodies.
• Once Li Mo’er confirms she has returned to her own body, she declares that she and Su Zhimin have no further connection. Su Zhimin is sent back to the Marquis’s Residence while unconscious.
• Li Mo’er sees no need to take further revenge: the Marquis’s household has lost its financial support, and its public reputation is badly damaged. Lan Yu plans to leave Suyu City in three days.
• Su Zhimin wakes on the street, realizes the soul swap has been reversed, and heads to the Li Residence to seek Li Mo’er’s forgiveness. The gatekeeper stops him.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Mo’er remains firm and self-possessed. She reclaims her dowry, leaves her marriage behind, and chooses not to pursue revenge, trusting the Marquis’s family to suffer the consequences of its own behavior.
• Madam Hou exposes her desperation and shamelessness by publicly tantruming over the dowry.
• Master Li supports his daughter, arranges the recovery of her property, and thanks Lan Yu and Ji Sanniang for their help.
• Su Zhimin wakes with no knowledge of what happened while he was unconscious. His immediate wish to apologize suggests regret, but the Li household’s anger—and the gatekeeper’s refusal—shows that he may not be welcomed back.
• Song Yaoyao follows the final stages of the affair with Guagua and treats the constables to tea as they watch.

Significant themes

• Justice and consequences: The Marquis’s household faces financial hardship and social disgrace without Li Mo’er needing to retaliate.
• Independence and dignity: Recovering her dowry and ending the relationship allows Li Mo’er to reclaim control of her life.
• Reputation and public judgment: The widely witnessed scandal affects Su Zhimin’s prospects and turns public opinion against the Marquis’s family.

Key plot points and events

• Su Zhimin repeatedly tries to see Li Mo’er at the Li Residence, but the servants remind him that their divorce is final and refuse him entry.
• Master Li avoids Su Zhimin for several days, then confronts him and says Li Mo’er has left Suyu City to stay with her maternal grandparents. Su Zhimin is left despondent.
• The Marquis’s Residence falls into financial ruin after Li Mo’er’s dowry is returned. Madam Hou takes money from Su Zhimin’s concubine, then borrows from loan sharks by falsely promising Su Zhimin will soon remarry into a wealthy family.
• When the lenders discover the deception, they attack Madam Hou and break her arm. Chen Yixiao later strips the family of its noble title, and they are expelled from the residence.
• Unable to cope with her fall in status, Madam Hou goes mad and later drowns in a river. Su Zhimin is left with her debts and eventually disappears.
• Two years later, Li Mo’er remarries a kind widower who has a daughter. She gradually accepts him, and they later have three children together.
• The chapter then returns to Song Yaoyao: twenty days have passed, and Guagua says her grandfather and the others will arrive in two days.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Zhimin regrets doubting Li Mo’er and begs Master Li for a chance to apologize, but his earlier choices cannot be undone. His pleas are rejected by the Li family.
• Master Li firmly protects his daughter, arranging for her to leave town and refusing to let Su Zhimin keep troubling her.
• Madam Hou remains grasping and controlling, but her schemes bring financial collapse, disgrace, and personal ruin. Her concubine bitterly condemns her for driving Li Mo’er away.
• Li Mo’er moves on from the painful divorce and eventually finds a loving, stable marriage.

Significant themes

• Consequences and accountability: Su Zhimin and Madam Hou suffer the results of their choices and mistreatment of Li Mo’er.
• Reputation and social decline: The Marquis’s family loses its title, wealth, and standing.
• Recovery and new beginnings: Li Mo’er’s later marriage shows that she can rebuild her life after betrayal and divorce.
• Regret cannot undo harm: Su Zhimin’s remorse comes too late to restore the relationship he lost.

Key events

• Song Yaoyao spots Maternal Grandfather Ning’s army approaching Suyu City and rushes to greet them. Her disguise—and Song Qinghui’s—makes Ning and the uncles suspicious, so Yaoyao offers to take them to the Sixth Prince, Chen Yixiao, as proof of who they are.
• At the palace, Yaoyao and Qinghui remove their disguises. Chen Yixiao explains that he, too, once disguised himself, restoring his true appearance only after Dragon Abyss fell.
• Ning and his troops take over Suyu City’s defenses from Yaoyao. After three days, she prepares to head home, having spent a year away and missing her parents.
• Ning asks for replacement loudspeakers and telescopes lost in battle. Yaoyao agrees, then considers buying drones from Guagua. Qinghui begins showing Ning and the others how drones work.

Character developments and interactions

• Yaoyao’s joy at seeing her family highlights how much she has missed them; she is also eager to return to her parents.
• Ning and the uncles respond cautiously to the disguised siblings, but accept their identities once they see their true faces. Ning warmly welcomes them and invites Qinghui to spar.
• Qinghui helps bridge the gap between modern technology and the generals by demonstrating a drone.
• Yaoyao and Guagua share a playful exchange: Guagua encourages her to buy equipment, while Yaoyao teases it for seizing every chance to make a sale.

Significant themes

• Family and reunion: Yaoyao’s happiness at seeing her grandfather and longing for home drive the chapter.
• Trust and identity: The disguises create understandable doubt, resolved through direct confirmation.
• Technology and warfare: Telescopes, loudspeakers, and drones are valuable military tools, and the chapter introduces the generals to their use.
• Duty and transition: Yaoyao hands over the city’s defenses before leaving, balancing responsibility with her desire to return home.

Plot points and events

• Song Qinghui recounts Song Yaoyao’s earlier use of drones, impressing Maternal Grandfather Ning and his sons. They recognize the devices’ military value for reconnaissance and surprise attacks.
• Guagua suggests buying combat vehicles. Song Yaoyao rejects tanks and pickup trucks as impractical because they depend on fuel and would be difficult for her relatives to maintain.
• She instead orders 100 solar-powered drones and 100 solar-powered Baga Cars. She allocates 60 of each to Maternal Grandfather Ning’s group, 30 to her third uncle’s troops in the Heavenly Mystic Kingdom, and 30 to the Second Prince’s forces, keeping ten of each for herself.
• Song Yaoyao pays for the equipment with three antiques. Guagua stores the shipment in system space until she can find somewhere to place it.
• She prepares crates of loudspeakers and telescopes, then takes her grandfather and the others to a residence she owns in Suyu City. Guagua places 60 drones and 60 Baga Cars in its rear courtyard.
• Song Yaoyao explains that Song Qinghui has already demonstrated the drones and offers to introduce the Baga Cars by taking her grandfather for a ride.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Yaoyao shows practical generosity: she is willing to equip her relatives and allied forces, but considers the equipment’s long-term usefulness rather than buying impressive but fuel-dependent vehicles. She also enjoys teasing Guagua.
• Maternal Grandfather Ning quickly grasps the drones’ military potential and is eager to try the unfamiliar Baga Cars.
• Song Qinghui and Ning’s uncles respond enthusiastically to the drones, imagining ways to use them in warfare.
• Guagua is excited by Song Yaoyao’s unusually large purchase and jokes that she is stingy; she promptly backtracks when Song Yaoyao challenges her.

Significant themes

• Practical innovation: Solar-powered technology is favored because it can keep working without a steady fuel supply.
• Family and alliance: Song Yaoyao distributes equipment across her family’s divided forces and the Second Prince’s group.
• Technology’s military potential: The drones inspire plans for reconnaissance and surprise attacks.
• Humor and affection: Song Yaoyao’s banter with Guagua adds warmth to an otherwise strategic discussion.

Key plot points and events

• Song Yaoyao teaches Maternal Grandfather Ning, Song Qinghui, and the others to drive the Baga Cars. Everyone quickly learns, and Ning Yuancheng suggests organizing a fleet.
• The group takes the vehicles out into the streets, drawing a crowd of curious and impressed onlookers. On their return, Grandfather Ning eagerly cleans his car and asks Yaoyao to stay a few extra days to help them learn to use the drones.
• Yaoyao reminds him to send half the drones and Baga Cars to Third Uncle’s forces in the Heavenly Mystic Kingdom. Grandfather Ning agrees.
• The Sixth Prince hears about the striking vehicles and sends Lightning to invite Yaoyao to the palace. Guessing the prince wants to try one, Yaoyao arranges two more Baga Cars.
• Yaoyao, Song Qinghui, Liu Zheheng, and Lightning travel to the palace. The Sixth Prince eagerly climbs into a sidecar and asks for the car to be driven at full speed.

Character developments and interactions

• Grandfather Ning and the other older men reveal a childlike enthusiasm for the unfamiliar vehicles. Qinghui and the others enjoy driving and are happy to show them off.
• Yaoyao is generous and practical: she shares the vehicles, plans to distribute equipment to relatives serving elsewhere, and readily provides a car for the Sixth Prince.
• Lightning is initially embarrassed to ask for a vehicle but becomes fascinated when he sees one. The Sixth Prince is openly excited and adventurous.
• Yaoyao coordinates with her brothers, who willingly drive the cars and take the prince for a ride.

Significant themes

• Wonder and technological change: The Baga Cars astonish people unfamiliar with motor vehicles and quickly become a public sensation.
• Generosity and family support: Yaoyao shares new technology with her relatives and ensures distant family members receive equipment too.
• Enthusiasm across generations: The vehicles bring out the same excitement in young and old alike.

Plot and events

• Prince Chen Yixiao is thrilled by the Baga Car’s speed and convenience. Liu Zheheng explains that it needs charging and gives the prince a ride around the palace, after which Chen eagerly asks to learn to drive.
• Song Yaoyao and her companions leave the palace in the evening. She realizes that introducing the Baga Car and drone means they must remain in Suyu City a few more days to teach people how to use them.
• Missing her family, Song considers bringing out an off-road vehicle to travel home sooner. Guagua warns that a large party—including her guards, imperial guards, second brother, and brother-in-law—would make that impractical, especially since she is the only one who can drive.
• Guagua suggests pickup trucks or military trucks instead. After jokingly accusing him of using her need as a sales opportunity, Song buys five military trucks and ten pickup trucks.
• Song plans to travel with her second brother and close companions in her existing off-road vehicle, while the others ride in pickup trucks. She intends to teach everyone to drive outside the city during their extended stay.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Yixiao’s fascination with modern technology grows into a desire to learn to drive.
• Song’s longing to return home drives her to seek a faster travel plan, though she accepts the practical needs of her whole party.
• Guagua acts both as a sensible adviser and an enthusiastic salesperson. Song teases him about his profits; he becomes flustered and denies making much money.
• Song Qinghui and Liu Zheheng overhear the plan and share in the excitement, trusting that the unfamiliar vehicles will be useful.

Significant themes

• Technology and adaptation: New vehicles and drones require instruction before they can be used safely and effectively.
• Responsibility and practicality: Song balances her homesickness with her duty to arrange transport for everyone accompanying her.
• Humorous companionship: Song and Guagua’s playful bargaining and teasing lighten the logistical problem-solving.

Key plot points and events

• Song Qinghui and Liu Zheheng ask Song Yaoyao for Baga Cars. She promises each of them one when they return to the capital, since the journey from Suyu City is too long for the smaller vehicles.
• The next day, Song Qinghui begins teaching the others to operate drones while Liu Zheheng prepares to teach the Shadow Guards to drive Baga Cars.
• Song Yaoyao summons the Shadow Guards outside the city and gives them permission to learn from Liu. While they practice, she secretly has Guagua deploy two pickup trucks.
• She drives a white pickup truck over, astonishing the Shadow Guards. She explains that pickup trucks can carry passengers and cargo and could shorten their journey home from over a month to six or seven days.
• Song Yaoyao brings Liu Zheheng and a few others to inspect the second, black pickup truck. She seats Liu in the front passenger seat, places several Shadow Guards in the rear seats, and has the rest ride in the truck bed. After everyone buckles up, she prepares to drive them.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Yaoyao continues to share her inventions generously, promising vehicles to her brothers and arranging driving lessons for the Shadow Guards.
• Liu Zheheng is eager to learn and asks to accompany Song Yaoyao to the second truck. The Shadow Guards share his excitement, though their amazement turns to nervousness when they board.
• Song Qinghui and Liu Zheheng coordinate their teaching plans so they can train the family in drones while still getting a chance to learn to drive.

Significant themes

• Innovation and progress: Modern vehicles and technology transform travel and daily life.
• Generosity and cooperation: Song Yaoyao uses her inventions to benefit her family and protectors.
• Excitement mixed with uncertainty: The characters eagerly embrace unfamiliar technology, but the passengers’ tension shows their understandable apprehension.

Key plot points and events

• Song Yaoyao demonstrates the Pickup Truck by speeding past the onlookers, then gives everyone a ride. Their excitement leads her to teach them how to drive while she stays in Suyu City for another seven days.
• Liu Zheheng refuses to stay behind and practice, insisting on accompanying Yaoyao to protect her. She accepts his decision.
• Maternal Grandfather Ning and Chen Yixiao ask for vehicles. Yaoyao explains that cars need gasoline and maintenance, so they would become useless if left unused. She promises to give each of them one after they return to Crimson Feather City.
• After the group becomes proficient with the drone, Yaoyao and her companions prepare to leave Suyu City. They depart with six Pickup Trucks, an Off-Road Vehicle, and their belongings.
• At the city gate, Ning and Chen Yixiao see them off and ask that Yaoyao be kept safe.
• Yaoyao discovers that healer Sima Yifeng and his disciple Lu Xuangu Gui have secretly boarded her vehicle. Sima says he wants to continue treating the Shadow Guards and study Yaoyao’s medical techniques. She lets them join.
• During the drive, Sima asks to take the wheel. Yaoyao firmly refuses because he has not learned to drive.

Character developments and interactions

• Yaoyao shares her vehicles and knowledge generously, but remains cautious about their practical limitations and road safety.
• Liu Zheheng demonstrates his steadfast sense of duty by prioritizing Yaoyao’s protection over his own chance to practice driving.
• Sima Yifeng reveals that his main motive for following Yaoyao is his eagerness to learn from her, though he also intends to continue the Shadow Guards’ treatment. His enthusiasm immediately clashes with Yaoyao’s sensible refusal to let him drive untrained.
• Ning and Chen Yixiao show affection and concern as they say goodbye, while Yaoyao reassures them and promises future vehicles.

Significant themes

• Responsibility and protection: Liu Zheheng’s loyalty shapes his choice to accompany Yaoyao.
• Practical limits of technology: Vehicles are useful only with fuel and maintenance, so Yaoyao considers their long-term viability before giving them away.
• Curiosity and learning: The group eagerly adopts new technology, and Sima’s desire to study Yaoyao’s medicine prompts him to follow her.
• Family bonds and farewells: The departure highlights the group’s affection, concern, and promises to one another.

Key plot points and events

• Song Yaoyao drives Sima Yifeng and the others toward Crimson Feather City. She stops him from unbuckling his seat belt and warns she’ll leave him behind if he keeps acting impulsively.
• Sima soon becomes violently carsick. Song pulls over, and Lu Xuangu Gui helps him while he vomits.
• Song offers him motion-sickness medicine and explains that people react differently to riding in vehicles. Sima refuses, offended by the idea that his body might be “brittle,” especially when everyone else seems fine.
• The convoy resumes, but Sima repeatedly demands stops to vomit. He still refuses the medicine, even as he grows exhausted.
• Eagle One and the other Shadow Guards finally restrain him, find the medicine he had hidden, and force him to swallow a tablet. They apologize for the rough treatment, then carry him back to the car so the journey can continue.
• Sima curses them, invoking the fact that the twelve Shadow Guards still need him to cure their poison. His curses eventually fade, and he falls quiet.

Character developments

• Song Yaoyao shows firm authority and practical concern. She tries to protect Sima’s dignity when explaining his purpose for traveling to Eagle One, but cannot persuade him to take the medicine.
• Sima Yifeng is proud, stubborn, and easily provoked by anything that suggests weakness. His refusal turns a manageable problem into a repeated disruption, though he eventually has to accept help.
• Eagle One prioritizes the group’s progress over Sima’s pride and takes decisive, if forceful, action.
• Lu Xuangu Gui responds with concern and supports Sima when he becomes ill.

Significant themes

• Pride versus practicality: Sima’s refusal to admit he is unwell prolongs his suffering and delays the convoy.
• Care expressed through firmness: Song’s warnings and Eagle One’s intervention are strict, but both aim to keep Sima safe and the journey moving.
• Different limits and needs: Sima’s assumption that strength or martial skill should prevent carsickness is challenged by Song’s explanation that bodies react differently.

Character interactions

• Song manages Sima through a mix of warnings, explanations, and attempts to preserve his face.
• Lu Xuangu Gui tends to Sima during his first bout of vomiting.
• Eagle One checks with Song about Sima’s reason for joining the journey; she says they need him to finish treating the poisoned Shadow Guards.
• The Shadow Guards collectively overpower Sima and administer the medicine, prompting threats and curses from him.

Key plot points and events

• The convoy continues toward Illusion City. Sima Yifeng’s motion sickness makes him a burden at first, but after being repeatedly given medicine—and discovering it helps him sleep—he eventually takes it willingly.
• The convoy’s horse-less vehicles amaze people along the road, who wonder how they work and fantasize about riding in them.
• After three days, Song Yaoyao and her party reach Illusion City. General Han stops them, then recognizes Song Qinghui once he removes his disguise. Song Yaoyao also reveals herself and asks after General Han and Ou Ruoxuan.
• General Han explains that the Second Prince knew they were coming and had sent him to welcome them. Song Yaoyao heads to the palace, where the Second Prince grants permission for the vehicles to enter.
• Curious crowds gather outside the palace. General Han’s Forbidden Army keeps them back, while the Shadow Guards worry about being recognized despite their disguises. The commoners begin offering large sums to touch the vehicles or ride in them.

Character developments

• Sima Yifeng shifts from stubbornly refusing medicine to taking it voluntarily once he sees that it makes the journey easier.
• Song Yaoyao remains resourceful and protective: she disguises the Shadow Guards to conceal their identities and brings the vehicles because she wants to return to her parents quickly.
• Song Qinghui remembers to remove his disguise so General Han can recognize him.
• General Han warmly welcomes the party and helps manage the public’s excitement.

Character interactions

• Song Qinghui and Liu Zheheng complain openly about Sima Yifeng’s stubbornness, while Lu Xuangu Gui silently agrees but feels unable to criticize his master.
• Song Yaoyao and General Han exchange greetings and ask after their acquaintances.
• Song Yaoyao reassures her Shadow Guards that their disguises will protect their identities; Eagle One, in turn, reassures Eagle Two.
• General Han and the Forbidden Army try to control the crowd as people eagerly bargain for a chance to experience the vehicles.

Significant themes

• Adaptation and practicality: Sima Yifeng eventually accepts a remedy that improves his journey.
• Wonder at innovation: The modern vehicles inspire fascination, excitement, and dreams of access among ordinary people.
• Loyalty and protection: Song Yaoyao takes care to shield the Shadow Guards from the risks of public exposure.

Key plot points and events

• Song Yaoyao’s convoy arrives at the Imperial Palace, where the Second Prince, Chen Jingxuan, eagerly inspects an off-road vehicle and takes a ride. He wants one for himself, but Song explains why she cannot give it to him.
• General Han reports that wealthy residents are keen to pay for the chance to see and ride in the vehicles. Song agrees to let the convoy stay in Illusion City for five days, so the business can go ahead.
• General Han sets fees of fifty taels to touch a vehicle, one hundred to sit inside, and three hundred for a ride. Despite complaints about the prices, a queue forms, and the palace-gate attraction quickly earns money.
• Song and her companions move into a residence maintained for her by the Second Prince. The next day, she brings Song Qinghui and the Shadow Guards outside the city and reveals drones and Baga Cars.
• Song and Song Qinghui teach the Shadow Guards to drive the Baga Cars. Once trained, each guard drives one back to Illusion City, where the vehicles cause another public sensation.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Yaoyao shows practical judgment: she declines to give away a vehicle, but recognizes a profitable opportunity and agrees to stay for five days. She also takes charge of introducing new technology and training the guards.
• The Second Prince is enthusiastic about the car and receptive to Song’s decisions. He supports the venture and instructs General Han to arrange it.
• General Han acts as organizer and promoter, turning the public’s curiosity into a profitable attraction. He firmly manages the crowd when arguments over the prices threaten to escalate.
• The Shadow Guards are eager to learn and quickly regain their driving skills, allowing them to transport the Baga Cars back to the city.
• The crowd’s exchanges reveal both the excitement surrounding the vehicles and tensions between people who consider the fees fair and those who resent them.

Significant themes

• Innovation and spectacle: Modern vehicles and drones inspire fascination in a setting unused to such technology.
• Entrepreneurship and scarcity: The limited five-day visit and tiered fees turn novelty into a lucrative business.
• Practical cooperation: Song, the prince, General Han, and the guards each contribute to making the demonstration and training successful.

Plot points and events

• Song Yaoyao and Song Qinghui deliver thirty Baga Cars and thirty drones to General Han, leaving Liu Zheheng and the Shadow Guards to train his troops. They then take Baga Cars to the Imperial Palace.
• The Second Prince eagerly tries a Baga Car, asks for multiple rides, and learns to drive it. Keen to impress Song Yaoyao, he drives too fast, overturns the vehicle, and escapes injury with his Lightness Skill. The car is only slightly damaged; Song Yaoyao and Song Qinghui tactfully leave to spare him embarrassment.
• In the following days, the siblings return to the palace, where the Second Prince continues learning about the vehicles and drones.
• On their way out one day, they find a crowd pelting a young mother and her baby with stones and calling the child a monster. Song Yaoyao intervenes, and Song Qinghui identifies her as Princess Jiahe, stopping the crowd from challenging her.
• Song Yaoyao asks what happened and approaches the injured woman, who is bleeding but shielding her baby. She secretly takes medical supplies from her storage space and insists on treating the woman, identifying herself as an imperial physician as well as a princess.
• The woman is wary and tries to refuse help. Song Yaoyao orders her to hold still. As treatment is about to begin, a bystander again warns Song Yaoyao to avoid the supposedly ill-fated mother and child; she demands that the crowd explain its actions.

Character developments and interactions

• The Second Prince is enthusiastic and playful, but his attempt to show off exposes his inexperience. His easy, informal manner with Song Yaoyao shows his comfort around her.
• Song Yaoyao is practical and compassionate: she defuses the palace mishap discreetly, then risks the crowd’s hostility to protect the mother and child and treat the woman.
• Song Qinghui supports his sister, firmly defending her authority when the crowd insults her and helping establish control.
• The mother is frightened and distrustful, yet fiercely protective of her baby. Song Yaoyao’s insistence on helping begins a tentative connection, though the woman’s reluctance remains.

Significant themes

• Compassion versus superstition: The crowd’s fear and cruelty toward the mother and child contrast with Song Yaoyao’s humane response.
• Authority used to protect: Song Yaoyao and Song Qinghui invoke her status not for privilege, but to stop violence and enable aid.
• Innovation and learning: The vehicles and drones bring excitement and new skills, while the Second Prince’s accident underscores the need for care.
• Appearance and prejudice: The crowd judges the child as monstrous and mocks Song Yaoyao’s appearance and clothing without knowing the truth.

Key plot points and events

• Song Yaoyao treats Leng Lingyi’s wound despite the crowd calling her and her blue-eyed baby “jinxes” and “monsters.”
• A bystander explains that Leng Lingyi was Yang Yubei’s concubine. After she gave birth to a blue-eyed boy, Yang tried to drown the child. Leng Lingyi protected him, so Yang repudiated her and drove them out.
• Song Yaoyao challenges the crowd’s superstition, suggesting the child’s unusual eyes may be a heavenly gift rather than a curse. She warns people not to accept rumors blindly, then disperses the crowd.
• Song Yaoyao and Song Qinghui decide not to arrest the hundreds present, judging that doing so could worsen the situation. Song Yaoyao insists on helping Leng Lingyi get home safely.
• Guagua reveals that Leng Lingyi and her child have been homeless, sleeping in a supposedly haunted abandoned residence and begging for food. Song Yaoyao invites them to stay with her for now. Leng Lingyi accepts for her child’s sake.
• The baby wakes, and Song Yaoyao admires his lake-blue eyes.

Character developments

• Song Yaoyao shows compassion, courage, and practical judgment: she rejects prejudice, provides medical care, protects Leng Lingyi, and offers shelter.
• Leng Lingyi is frightened and distrustful after being persecuted, but gradually accepts Song Yaoyao’s kindness and puts her child’s safety first.
• Song Qinghui supports Song Yaoyao and helps disperse the crowd, though he recognizes the difficulty of holding so many people accountable.
• The crowd is briefly unsettled by Song Yaoyao’s alternative interpretation, though not everyone is fully persuaded.

Significant themes

• Prejudice and superstition: The crowd condemns a mother and child based on the baby’s eye color.
• Compassion and innocence: Song Yaoyao insists that the child is blameless and deserves protection.
• Responsible judgment: She urges people to think for themselves rather than repeat rumors.
• Practical limits of justice: The chapter weighs accountability against the risk of escalating conflict.

Character interactions

• Song Yaoyao comforts and treats Leng Lingyi while confronting those who insult her.
• She persuades the crowd to reconsider its assumptions, with Song Qinghui backing her effort to clear the scene.
• Song Yaoyao offers Leng Lingyi and her baby safety and shelter; Leng Lingyi accepts despite her initial reluctance.

Plot points

• Song Yaoyao and Song Qinghui bring Leng Lingyi and her newborn son away from the crowd. The baby smiles at Yaoyao, charming everyone.
• Guagua explains that Yang Yubei divorced Leng Lingyi after their son was born with blue eyes. His principal wife, Madam Yang, encouraged him to see the child as demonic and then drove mother and baby out with almost nothing.
• Rather than attack them directly, Madam Yang intends to ruin their lives by spreading rumors about the child. She has a servant secretly follow them and report back.
• Yaoyao spots the watcher and has Qinghui seize him. After he confesses, she sends him back with a warning: Leng Lingyi and her son are under her protection.
• At her residence, Yaoyao arranges a courtyard, food to aid Leng Lingyi’s postpartum recovery, and supplies for the baby. Guagua reveals that the child’s blue eyes result from a genetic mutation.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Yaoyao shows compassion and quick judgment: she recognizes Leng Lingyi’s vulnerability, provides practical care, and uses her status to deter Madam Yang.
• Leng Lingyi is wary and frightened when she recognizes the Yang household’s servant, but Yaoyao’s protection gives her a first glimpse of comfort and safety.
• Song Qinghui supports Yaoyao, promptly capturing the spy.
• The baby wins the group over with his smile; his unusual blue eyes are beautiful to Yaoyao but provoke fear and prejudice in others.
• Madam Yang, though absent, emerges as vindictive and manipulative, exploiting superstition to punish Leng Lingyi.

Significant themes

• Prejudice toward difference: a harmless genetic mutation is treated as evidence of something evil.
• Cruelty and social power: Madam Yang uses her influence and rumor to make an already vulnerable mother and child suffer.
• Compassion and protection: Yaoyao counters that cruelty with shelter, care, and a public warning.

Key plot points and events

• Song Yaoyao has taken Leng Lingyi and her son under her protection, but is unsure what will happen to them after she leaves Illusion City.
• A servant reports the princess’s actions to Yang Yubei and Madam Yang, including her warning that Leng Lingyi and the child are protected.
• Madam Yang reacts with fury and wants to continue targeting them. Yang Yubei stops her, warning that he will divorce her if she harms them.
• Yang Yubei sees the princess’s protection as a chance to advance the Yang family. He plans to use Leng Lingyi’s connection to Song Yaoyao to gain access to the Second Prince.
• The next day, Yang Yubei visits the princess with expensive gifts, claiming gratitude and intending to take Leng Lingyi and her son back. Song Yaoyao decides not to receive him, but Guagua warns that she cannot simply refuse.

Character developments

• Song Yaoyao remains protective of Leng Lingyi and her child, while weighing the practical problem of their future.
• Yang Yubei shifts from alarm to opportunism: he restrains his wife not out of concern for Leng Lingyi, but because her connection to the princess could benefit his family.
• Madam Yang remains spiteful and resentful, but fear of divorce keeps her from acting openly against Leng Lingyi and her son.

Character interactions

• Yang Yubei interrogates the servant, then confronts Madam Yang and forces her to agree not to interfere.
• Madam Yang privately curses Leng Lingyi and the child after Yang Yubei leaves, revealing that her obedience is reluctant.
• Guagua explains Yang Yubei’s motives to Song Yaoyao, clarifying that his visit is meant both to exploit her influence and to reclaim Leng Lingyi and her son.

Significant themes

• Protection and vulnerability: The princess’s patronage shields Leng Lingyi and her child, but their longer-term security remains uncertain.
• Political ambition and exploitation: Yang Yubei treats people and relationships as tools for the Yang family’s advancement.
• Power within marriage: Madam Yang’s schemes are curtailed by Yang Yubei’s authority and threat of divorce, not by any change of heart.

Plot and key events

• Yang Yubei arrives at Princess Jiahe’s residence, claiming he wants to thank Song Yaoyao for saving Leng Lingyi and their son—and ask Leng to forgive him so he can bring them home.
• Song Yaoyao agrees to receive him but deliberately makes him wait, then sharply challenges him over abandoning Leng and nearly drowning their newborn.
• She makes clear that the decision belongs to Leng: if she and her son forgive Yang, he may take them back; otherwise, he must leave them alone.
• Leng Lingyi is summoned. Yang immediately tries to approach her and their child, but Song Yaoyao orders him to keep his distance. He retreats.

Character developments

• Song Yaoyao is protective and outspoken, yet insists that Leng must choose for herself rather than be pressured into accepting help.
• Leng Lingyi recognizes Yang’s opportunism and keeps out of his reach, showing more wariness and resolve than he expects.
• Yang Yubei admits fault and professes repentance, but his eagerness to reclaim Leng and their son appears driven by self-interest. He remains confident that he can persuade her.
• Song Qinghui supports Yaoyao’s approach, while cautioning that Leng may still be vulnerable to her former husband’s influence.

Themes

• Agency and personal choice: Others can offer support, but Leng must decide whether to forgive Yang.
• Accountability and trust: Yang’s apology is weighed against his past cruelty and present motives.
• Protection and boundaries: Song Yaoyao ensures Yang cannot pressure Leng physically or emotionally in the meeting.

Character interactions

• Song Yaoyao and Song Qinghui debate whether confronting Yang will help or risk Leng being persuaded; they agree to let Leng’s decision settle matters.
• Song Yaoyao confronts Yang with his history and sets firm conditions for the meeting.
• Yang attempts to reconcile with Leng, but she steps away, and Yaoyao intervenes when he moves toward her and the child.

Key plot points and events

• Yang Yubei arrives at Princess Jiahe’s residence, claiming he regrets his actions and wants to take Leng Lingyi and their infant son home.
• Leng Lingyi rejects his reconciliation attempt. She reminds him that he divorced her, drove them out, and had wanted their newborn son drowned.
• Leng Lingyi recognizes that Yang came only after the Princess rescued them, suspecting he wants to use his connection to her for personal advantage.
• Song Yaoyao challenges Yang to explain why he ignored Leng Lingyi and the child for two months, then appeared only after their rescue. He can offer no convincing answer.
• Song confirms Leng’s wishes: she will neither forgive Yang nor return to the Yang residence. Leng asks that he be escorted out, and Song orders the guards to remove him.

Character developments

• Leng Lingyi has become firm and self-reliant after two months on her own. She rejects Yang’s emotional pressure and declares that she will protect her son herself.
• Yang Yubei is exposed as insincere and self-interested. His attempts to appear repentant collapse under questioning, and he hides his anger because Song is present.
• Song Yaoyao supports Leng openly, offers her protection, and uses her authority to confront Yang and enforce Leng’s decision.

Significant themes

• False repentance and manipulation: Yang uses apologies, marital sentiment, and concern for his son to disguise his motives.
• Self-respect and independence: Leng refuses to return to an abusive relationship, even when Yang threatens her with hardship.
• Protection and justice: Song’s intervention gives Leng the safety and support to speak freely.
• Parental responsibility: Yang’s appeal to fatherhood is undermined by his earlier cruelty and abandonment.

Character interactions

• Leng addresses Yang formally as “Master Yang” and insists he call her “Madam Leng,” marking the end of their relationship.
• Yang repeatedly tries to guilt Leng into forgiving him and returning, but she counters his claims with specific memories of his abuse and neglect.
• Song questions Yang in front of Leng, exposes the weakness of his excuses, and ultimately respects Leng’s choice by having him escorted out.

Key plot points and events

• Yang Yubei leaves the Princess’s Residence after Song Yaoyao refuses to help him; the guards eject him, and he cannot bring himself to leave behind the gifts he brought.
• Merchants who had heard Yang claim he was close to Princess Jiahe learn that he was thrown out. Fearing association with him, they cancel their business dealings with the Yang family.
• The news overwhelms Old Master Yang, who faints. Yang Yubei realizes the merchants abandoned him because his attempt to use the princess as a backer failed.
• Song Yaoyao asks Leng Lingyi about her future. Leng explains that returning to the Yang Residence would be dangerous: Yang Yubei is only interested in her and her son while they remain useful to him.
• At Leng Lingyi’s request, Song names her son Leng Xingyi, meaning a brilliant, far-reaching radiance. His childhood name is An Ning, reflecting his mother’s wish for his safety and happiness.
• Song invites Leng Lingyi to return with her to Crimson Feather City and study medicine in a new academy’s women’s medical class. Leng accepts and formally becomes Song’s disciple. Song also promises to teach Xingyi when he is older.

Character developments and interactions

• Yang Yubei is exposed as opportunistic and loses both the princess’s support and his family’s business ties. He blames the merchants rather than acknowledging his own failed scheme.
• Leng Lingyi shows clear-eyed distrust of Yang, prioritizes her son’s safety, and begins to imagine an independent future through medical study.
• Song Yaoyao offers Leng protection, education, and a place in her household’s future. Her affection for the baby is evident as she holds him and promises to guide him.
• Leng and Song’s relationship shifts from princess and guest to teacher and disciple, with Xingyi becoming Song’s grand-disciple.

Significant themes

• Reputation and power: Yang’s public claim of royal favor collapses when the truth becomes visible, and his commercial allies quickly withdraw.
• Women’s independence and education: Song offers Leng a path beyond dependence on the Yang family through medical training.
• Maternal love and hope: An Ning’s name and Song’s chosen formal name express Leng’s hopes for his well-being and a brighter future.
• Trust and protection: Leng’s understanding of Yang’s motives contrasts with the genuine support Song offers her and her child.