Recaps

Jiang Shuyue exposed schemes and secrets during the Empress Dowager’s birthday celebrations, while Zhou Yunshen and her allies defended her against accusations about her identity. The arc ended with Consort Shu facing scrutiny and Liu Cheng sent to the frontier.

• The Empress invited Jiang Shuyue to stay for the birthday banquet, where Huahua exposed Liu Ran’s secret history and the Emperor’s hidden succession edict.
• Jiang Shuyue gathered valuables from palace guests to raise funds for Yuzhou, then collected keepsakes from officials and princes.
• Huahua’s revelations about the Empress Dowager, the Late Emperor, and Count Yungui helped the Empress Dowager reconsider her past and praise Jiang Shuyue.
• Jiang Chen defeated Meng Taiqi in the wagered contest, securing Great Zhou’s stakes and earning a residence and a title for Lin Shuangshuang.
• Jiang Shuyue uncovered a plot to frame her at the palace, while Zhou Yunshen and the Empress Dowager’s guests rejected accusations against her.
• Jiang Shuyue disproved Hua Rongyue’s claims about her childhood, and the Empress Dowager ordered Hua sent to serve in the army.
• The Empress Dowager ordered Bai Furong and Bai Yulan confined after Bai Zong blamed them for helping Consort Shu frame Jiang Shuyue.
• The Empress Dowager thanked Jiang Shuyue for helping repair her relationships with the Emperor and Prince Huai, while Consort Shu’s allies faced consequences.

Jiang Shuyue confronted Jiang An and the Jiang relatives over their mistreatment of her and her mother, while Zhou Yunshen helped hold the Wang and Chen families accountable. After her Green Tea Points passed a thousand, Huahua became a human child, and the family welcomed him as Zhou Lu Ye.

• Jiang Shuyue publicly confronted Jiang An outside the Marquisate of Southern Pacification, then visited the Jiang residence and defended her mother against Auntie Zhuang and the Old Madam.
• Jiang Shuyue punished Wang Daming and Chen Wang for insulting her, and Zhou Yunshen arrived to defend her when their relatives threatened her.
• Jiang Wujie and Zhou Yunshen arranged for the Wang and Chen children to be sent to Master Lan, while Jiang An faced warnings about helping Wang Peng in the imperial examination.
• Huahua revealed that Jiang An had put fertility-preventing substances in Jiang Shuyue’s dowry, but reassured her that the toxins would not affect her body.
• Jiang Shuyue’s Green Tea Points passed a thousand, and her wish that Huahua were human transformed him into a small child.
• Zhou Yunshen accepted Jiang Shuyue’s explanation for Huahua’s appearance, named him Zhou Lu Ye with the courtesy name Jinse, and arranged for Qi Ye to care for him.
• The family cared for the baby Huahua, and Jiang Shuyue and Zhou Yunshen agreed they would have a child of their own.
• Zhou Luming dressed Huahua in a tiger outfit, and Zhou Shiye fitted Big Flower with a tiny saddle so Huahua could ride him.

Jiang Shuyue and Huahua uncover schemes involving Jin San, Lan Ruoyue, and Consort Shu while helping the Zhou family arrange marriages. The arc ends with Jin San’s elopement collapsing into a public scandal as Prince Huai confronts the Jin envoys.

• Jiang Shuyue and Huahua visited Master Lan’s academy, where they discovered Chen Wang and Wang Dafa hiding from Master Lan’s harsh lessons.
• Jiang Shuyue and the children overheard Jin San promise to elope with Little Golden Phoenix, then captured him after he agreed to flee with Jin San in seven days.
• The emperor learned that Little Golden Phoenix was a spy and ordered him to keep luring Jin San so Great Zhou could demand compensation from the Jin Kingdom.
• Jiang Shuyue warned Jiang Sheng that Li Xiaoya was his half sister and exposed Lan Ruoyue’s insults and Zhang Tao’s deceptions before the gathered examination candidates.
• Jiang Shuyue persuaded the emperor to approve Zhou Luming’s marriage to the Shen Family Lad, proposed Ma Rufeng for Zhou Sesong, and learned that Zhou Shiye loved someone.
• Huahua exposed Consort Shu’s plot to drug Jiang Shuyue, and Jiang Shuyue knocked out the maid who tried to take advantage of her, costing Consort Shu her rank and the Fourth Prince’s care.
• Jiang Shuyue watched Jin San mistake a bearded man for his lover and kiss him, prompting the man and his companions to restrain Jin San and demand compensation.
• Prince Huai confronted the Jin envoys at the capital prefectural office after Jin San claimed to be a prince and demanded that they explain their false report of his death.

Jiang Shuyue and Prince Huai humiliated the Jin envoys and uncovered the gold at Demon Domain Mountain, while scandals in the Chen and Qin families spiraled into debt, violence, and revelations. The arc ended with Lan Ruoyue planning to use narcissus juice and a bribed eunuch to win the emperor’s favor.

• Prince Huai exposed Jin San’s fake death and plot, then defended Jiang Shuyue and her companions when the Jin envoys turned hostile.
• Jiang Shuyue proposed humiliating the Jin Kingdom with satirical stories, songs, and novels, while Prince Huai detained Third Prince Jin and punished the men who attacked her.
• Huahua revealed a gold deposit at Demon Domain Mountain and helped Jiang Shuyue uncover corruption in the Shuntian Prefecture magistrate’s family.
• The prefect reclaimed gifts from Liu Shi and Wang Yuyan, while Wang Yuyan lost her baby after Liu Shi beat her.
• Jiang Shuyue and Zhou Yunshen exposed Chen Yongwang’s drugging and affair at the Happy Red Courtyard, and Jiang An signed IOUs to cover the resulting demands.
• Huahua revealed that Qin’s concubine had switched babies at birth, and Thousand-Household Commander Qin threw Liu Shi out and punished the concubine.
• Prince Huai discovered twenty-five bodies in a dry well at the brothel and ordered the Madam and attendant arrested, while Zhou Yunshen carried the drunken Jiang Shuyue home.
• Lan Ruoyue approved of the donkey Jiang An presented and planned to use narcissus juice and a bribed eunuch to win the emperor’s favor.