Chapter Summaries

Jiang Shuyue refused Lan Ruoyue’s demand for a prescription and announced she would distribute medicine for free instead. Lan Ruoyue left believing the supply would be limited, while Jiang Shuyue and Huahua realized they had enough green tea points to undermine her clinic.

• Lan Ruoyue demanded Jiang Shuyue hand over the prescription, claiming she would use it to benefit the common people.
• Jiang Shuyue questioned Lan Ruoyue’s clinic fees, and Huahua revealed that Lan Ruoyue charged above-market prices despite receiving free premises, labor, and herbs.
• Jiang Shuyue said she would sell the prescription for a hundred thousand taels of gold, then announced plans to distribute medicine for free.
• Jiang Shuyue told Lan Ruoyue that the prescription’s ingredients were scarce, leading Lan Ruoyue to assume Jiang Shuyue could not distribute much medicine.
• Huahua realized Jiang Shuyue had enough green tea points to exchange for hundreds of medicinal pills, and the two recognized they could treat thousands of people.

Jiang Shuyue rejected Lan Ruoyue’s attempt to obtain her prescription for free and agreed to arrange paid medicine distribution with Zhou Luming. Lan Ruoyue left in embarrassment to use the privy, where Huahua reported that she fell into the privy pit.

• Lan Ruoyue pressed Jiang Shuyue to give her prescription away or charge little, but Jiang Shuyue refused to let her dictate how the prescription was used.
• Lan Ruoyue dismissed the medicine’s effectiveness and claimed Prince Huai’s recovery had helped Jiang Shuyue by chance.
• Jiang Shuyue agreed to charge for the medicine and teased Lan Ruoyue until she hurried off to find the privy.
• Zhou Luming joined Jiang Shuyue and agreed to organize medicine distribution near the Marquis’s Residence.
• Huahua reported that Lan Ruoyue’s lower back began throbbing at the privy, causing her to miss her footing and fall into the privy pit.

Jiang Shuyue helped Sangshen after Lan Ruoyue fell into a cesspit, while Lan Ruoyue grew more suspicious and resentful. At dinner, Zhou Yunshen returned covered in blood, and Jiang Shuyue’s alarmed concern left her flustered by his teasing.

• Jiang Shuyue arranged for clothes to be sent to Sangshen and a carriage to meet her at the side gate after Lan Ruoyue fell into a cesspit.
• Lan Ruoyue blamed Jiang Shuyue, nearly struck Sangshen, then ordered her to watch Jiang Shuyue and the medicinal ingredients she bought.
• Jiang Shuyue fed Ironhead and ate dinner with Zhou Luming, Zhou Sesong, and Zhou Shiye, delighting in her family.
• Zhou Yunshen returned with bloodstains on his clothes, and Jiang Shuyue rushed to check whether he was injured.
• Zhou Yunshen stopped Jiang Shuyue from pulling open his robes and teased that he would start misbehaving, making her heart beat strangely.

Jiang Shuyue welcomed a rescued tiger cub and watched it clash playfully with Ironhead, while she and Zhou Yunshen shared a meal. She learned that Lan Ruoyue’s attempt to wash away a foul smell had left her swollen and bee-stung, then planned to buy supplies for distributing medicine.

• Qi Ye brought Jiang Shuyue a tiger cub whose mother had been killed after suffering fatal injuries from a wolf pack.
• Jiang Shuyue named the cub Big Flower and introduced it to Ironhead, who slapped the cub before they shared food.
• Zhou Yunshen joined Jiang Shuyue for dinner and took some of the greens she had set aside.
• Huahua told Jiang Shuyue that Lan Ruoyue had soaked in flowers and citrus peels, become swollen, and been stung by bees attracted to her fragrance.
• Jiang Shuyue asked Huahua what herbs to buy for her planned medicine distribution, and Huahua recommended several ingredients for summer tea.
• Lan Ruoyue hid in her room and used ointment and burning mugwort as Sangshen scolded her for over-soaking and using too much perfume.

Jiang Shuyue learned that the Imperial Preceptor's Residence was earning far more from tours than the Marquis's Residence was from lodging, so she rushed over to sell merchandise. Her visit boosted her and Murong Tianci's reputations and raised her Heavenly Dao affinity, leaving Huahua wondering where her fortune came from.

• Lan Ruoyue ordered Sangshen to have merchants buy up medicinal herbs so Jiang Shuyue's free medicine distribution would fail, while the Fourth Prince and Second Prince also bought herbs across five cities.
• The emperor coordinated cheap lodging for visitors seeking treatment, and Huahua told Jiang Shuyue that her grandfather's study cottage had already been reserved for months.
• Huahua explained that Murong Tianci had opened the Imperial Preceptor's Residence to paid tours, which could earn more than a hundred taels of silver a day.
• Jiang Shuyue rushed to the Imperial Preceptor's Residence with Little Apple and arranged to sell premium goods there.
• Murong Tianci personally saw Jiang Shuyue off, and their reputations and Jiang Shuyue's Heavenly Dao affinity rose.
• Huahua wondered why Jiang Shuyue had gained so much fortune, and screams came from Xiehe Medical Hall.

Lan Ruoyue lost Fortune Value after Murong Tianci’s beauty drew attention away from her, and the system punished her for the setback. Two days later, Jiang Shuyue helped oversee medical awnings at the Marquisate of Southern Pacification, where Prince Huai proudly showed off his restored ability to walk.

• Lan Ruoyue discovered that her Fortune Value had fallen by one thousand after Murong Tianci’s appearance attracted attention, and the system blamed Jiang Shuyue’s influence.
• The system punished Lan Ruoyue with an electric shock, and she blamed Jiang Shuyue while Sangshen watched in alarm.
• Huahua briefly sensed killing intent near Jiang Shuyue’s residence, then found everyone safe and went back to sleep.
• Two days later, Jiang Shuyue and the Shen and Liu families opened three medical awnings outside the Marquisate of Southern Pacification.
• Prince Huai repeatedly stood and sat as he exercised his restored legs, while Huahua revealed he had been brisk-walking with the Empress Dowager.

Jiang Shuyue, Zhou Yunshen, and Murong Tianci discussed the northern tribes’ growing threat and Murong Tianci’s plan to test remedies on their visiting third prince. As the group gathered for the Military Selection, Zhou Yunshen considered using Huahua to learn more about the north, while his plans to profit from a shopping street earned Jiang Shuyue’s praise.

• Murong Tianci warned that the northern tribes were stirring and said their alliance leader’s third son would attend the Empress Dowager’s birthday celebration, then offered to test his remedies on the prince.
• Huahua told Jiang Shuyue that northern attacks had killed Zhou Yunshen’s friends and wounded his father, and that Zhou Yunshen still wanted revenge on the old chanyu.
• Zhou Yunshen kissed Jiang Shuyue, while Murong Tianci urged them to mind their behavior in public and Huahua revealed that Murong was fond of gossip.
• Huahua said Zhou Yunshen planned to turn the area outside Murong Tianci’s residence into a shopping street, bringing the family an estimated seven or eight thousand taels each month.
• Jiang Shuyue praised Zhou Yunshen, though Murong Tianci and the others recognized that she and Murong had devised the ideas behind the profits.

After the medicine distribution cured hundreds of patients, Murong Tianci announced that the emperor had expanded and extended it. The crowds’ gratitude gave Jiang Shuyue and others the power of faith, but Jiang Shuyue was left worrying about how to provide enough medicine with her dwindling Green Tea Points.

• Zhou Shiye reported that patients in the first shelter had recovered and that treatment in the other shelters was nearly complete.
• Murong Tianci credited the miraculous medicine and the emperor’s benevolence, prompting the crowd to kneel and generate the power of faith.
• Huahua explained that faith could improve luck and eventually let its bearer gather the world’s Fortune Value.
• Murong Tianci announced that the medicine quota would increase by one hundred each day and the event would last five days.
• Jiang Shuyue realized she lacked enough Green Tea Points to supply the extra medicine, while Huahua suggested she would earn points faster and work overtime.

Jiang Shuyue and Huahua exposed Xu Fa’s private struggles while he sought treatment, leaving him mortified and the nearby crowd convinced they must keep the gossip secret. Xu Fa learned that his main problem was infertility, not the frightening disease Jiang Shuyue had guessed.

• Huahua encouraged Jiang Shuyue to gather green tea points, and Jiang Shuyue accepted the task of finding suitable targets.
• Huahua identified Xu Fa, the wealthy younger brother of the Left Commandant of the City Guard, and revealed that local thieves competed to steal his tightly wedged rings.
• Jiang Shuyue guessed that Xu Fa had syphilis, alarming him and everyone nearby, but Huahua clarified that he had trouble getting his wives pregnant.
• Huahua explained that Xu Fa’s former concubines had children with other men while his First Madam remained childless, confirming his infertility.
• The crowd sympathized with Xu Fa and fell silent, while Xu Fa felt too embarrassed to face anyone.

Xu Fa thanked Jiang Chen for the potion after learning it could cure his infertility, while Jiang Shuyue and Huahua exposed Jiang Wujie's secret affection for Fang Moting. The chapter left Jiang Wujie embarrassed by his sister's gossip as Fang Moting grew curious about the novels Jiang Shuyue promised to share.

• Huahua told Jiang Shuyue that Xu Fa's infertility could be cured by drinking the potion for three days, and Xu Fa gave Jiang Chen three rings in gratitude.
• Huahua revealed that Jiang Wujie admired Fang Moting and had secretly sent her pastries and protected her from thugs.
• Jiang Shuyue and Huahua teased Jiang Wujie for leaving Fang Moting in the queue, so a servant brought Fang a chair and refreshments on his behalf.
• Fang Moting and Jiang Wujie exchanged shy words, and Huahua described Fang as talented, good-natured, and secretly fond of romance novels.
• Jiang Shuyue planned to give Fang Moting a selection of novels, including palace intrigue and boys' love stories, leaving Jiang Wujie appalled by her increasingly crooked tastes.

Jiang Wujie invited Fang Moting to Clear Chill Pool, while Jiang Shuyue and Huahua predicted trouble with Fang Moting’s best friend. At the Xiehe Medical Hall, Lan Ruoyue struggled to counter Jiang Shuyue’s popular medicinal solution and learned that she needed to win the emperor’s favor, though her pride made that difficult.

• Jiang Shuyue and Huahua pushed Jiang Wujie to invite Fang Moting boating at Clear Chill Pool, and he finally asked her to go.
• Fang Moting accepted Jiang Wujie’s invitation but said she wanted to wait and see how the medicinal solution worked before setting a date.
• Jiang Shuyue and Huahua predicted that Fang Moting’s best friend would try to seduce Jiang Wujie, making Fang Moting curious whether their prediction would come true.
• Lan Ruoyue complained that people were seeking treatment from Jiang Shuyue instead of the Xiehe Medical Hall, and Sangshen reminded her that Jiang Shuyue’s solution was effective and free.
• Lan Ruoyue suspected Prince Huai and the Imperial Preceptor were secretly helping Jiang Shuyue, while her system warned that her luck was being siphoned away.
• The system advised Lan Ruoyue to win the emperor’s favor, but she wondered how to do so without compromising her pride.

Jiang Shuyue learned that Lan Ruoyue had presented the emperor with plans for a handgun, causing him to fall while he excitedly examined them. Huahua revealed the plans and gunpowder proportions were wrong, leaving the emperor in danger of pursuing a faulty weapon design.

• Lan Ruoyue hurried to the palace with diagrams for a new weapon, hoping to gain the emperor’s favor.
• Huahua woke Jiang Shuyue and told her the emperor had fallen face-first.
• Jiang Shuyue’s companions heard that Lan Ruoyue had given the emperor plans for a handgun.
• Huahua explained that the drawings and gunpowder proportions were wrong, but the excited emperor had believed them.

Jiang Shuyue learned through Huahua that Lan Ruoyue’s altered gunpowder formula could cause a catastrophic Arsenal explosion, while the emperor considered approving the project. Zhou Yunshen and Murong Tianci rushed to stop the plan, and Zhou Yunshen confronted Lan Ruoyue as she asked to lead it.

• Jiang Shuyue heard Huahua explain that Lan Ruoyue’s flawed gunpowder formula could destroy the Arsenal and kill everyone there.
• Huahua warned that the emperor was interested in Lan Ruoyue’s proposal and might approve it after dinner.
• Zhou Yunshen and Murong Tianci abruptly left to report unfinished business to the emperor, while Prince Huai worried about the Arsenal.
• Lan Ruoyue asked the emperor to put her in charge of the weapons project.
• Zhou Yunshen entered the palace and sharply refused Lan Ruoyue’s request.

Lan Ruoyue was appointed Imperial Pig Keeper and tasked with raising a piglet for the Empress Dowager’s birthday, while Murong Tianci and Zhou Yunshen arranged for her to provide free care to patients. After the emperor left with the two men to discuss an important matter, Lan Ruoyue wondered what they planned to tell him.

• Murong Tianci teased Lan Ruoyue and reminded the emperor that the roasted Medicinal Pig had been intended as the Empress Dowager’s birthday gift.
• Zhou Yunshen suggested Lan Ruoyue raise a replacement piglet, and the emperor appointed her Imperial Pig Keeper.
• After the system revealed that a pig would help Lan Ruoyue save the Empress Dowager in the future, she eagerly accepted the assignment.
• Murong Tianci and Zhou Yunshen pressed Lan Ruoyue to offer patients free lodging and care, and she reluctantly agreed.
• The emperor left with Murong Tianci and Zhou Yunshen to discuss an important matter, leaving Lan Ruoyue to speculate about their plans.

Zhou Yunshen and Murong Tianci persuaded the emperor to delay large-scale gunpowder production and begin with careful experiments. At home, Jiang Shuyue heard about Little Six’s cooking, while Zhou Yunshen later faced the Fourth Prince, who complained that he had stopped visiting him.

• Zhou Yunshen and Murong Tianci warned the emperor that Lan Ruoyue’s gunpowder formula could cause a catastrophic explosion and urged him to fund small-scale research first.
• The emperor abandoned his plan to put Lan Ruoyue in charge, then forced Zhou Yunshen and Murong Tianci to join him for a meal.
• Jiang Shuyue bathed after hot pot, and Huahua told her that the Crown Prince had taken Little Six to cook for Lan Ruoyue, who had passed out twice after eating his roast suckling pig.
• Zhou Luming overheard Jiang Shuyue and Huahua praising Little Six and arranged for rare ingredients to be prepared for him.
• After leaving the palace at night, Zhou Yunshen dodged the Fourth Prince, who confronted him over their lack of contact since Zhou Yunshen’s marriage.

Zhou Yunshen concealed his suspicions while speaking with the Fourth Prince, who mistook his complaints about Miss Lan for a sign of intimacy. Zhou Yunshen accepted the Fourth Prince’s sachet and left for the Marquis’s Residence, while the prince returned to his quarters elated by their hand-holding.

• Zhou Yunshen told the Fourth Prince that Miss Lan’s many projects were exhausting him and asked the prince to advise her to focus on one thing at a time.
• The Fourth Prince blamed the introduction of Miss Lan on his second imperial brother and said he would never have introduced her if he had known she would burden Zhou Yunshen.
• Zhou Yunshen clasped the Fourth Prince’s hand and asked him to help Miss Lan understand their rules.
• The Fourth Prince gave Zhou Yunshen an insect-repelling sachet, which Zhou Yunshen accepted before riding back to the Marquis’s Residence.
• The Fourth Prince returned to his quarters, savored the lingering fragrance on his hands, and confessed that he liked Zhou Yunshen.

Zhou Yunshen reacted to the Fourth Prince’s obsession with him by plotting to send Huang Shan far away, while Jiang Shuyue spent the day eating watermelon and joking with Huahua and Jiang Chen. The chapter ended with Jiang Chen realizing Instructor Hai planned to make him write essays as punishment for beating him.

• Zhou Yunshen overheard Jiang Shuyue and Huahua joke about the Fourth Prince’s fantasies and decided to arrange a distant marriage for Huang Shan.
• Jiang Shuyue learned Huang Shan was leaving and lost her appetite for four hours from disappointment.
• Jiang Shuyue ate watermelon with Erhua and Ironhead, defended her habit to Jiang Chen, and joked that their shared love of meat proved they were biological siblings.
• Huahua told Jiang Shuyue that Jiang Chen had beaten ten instructors and was strong and interested in military strategy.
• Huahua revealed that Instructor Hai planned to make Jiang Chen write essays based on The Art of War, leaving Jiang Chen worried about the punishment.

Jiang Shuyue and Huahua discovered that Jiang An planned to frame Jiang Chen with false accusations of molestation to ruin his chances in the Military Selection. Jiang Chen decided to stay at the Marquis's Residence for safety and claimed he wanted the Marquis's advice, prompting Jiang Shuyue to suspect he had designs on her husband.

• Jiang Shuyue urged Jiang Chen to rest and prepare carefully for the Military Selection, while Huahua said he ranked among the top three candidates.
• Huahua revealed that Jiang An planned to pay several beautiful women to falsely accuse Jiang Chen of molestation and damage his reputation.
• Jiang Chen became furious at Jiang An, while Jiang Shuyue and Huahua joked about the cost of the scheme.
• Jiang Chen asked to stay at the Marquis's Residence, saying he wanted the Marquis's guidance before the Military Selection.
• Jiang Shuyue privately wondered whether Jiang Chen had designs on her husband.

Jiang Shuyue learned the examiners’ preferences from Huahua and helped Jiang Chen prepare for the Military Selection while he stayed at the Marquis’s Residence. Jiang An’s plan to ruin Jiang Chen’s reputation was disrupted when he discovered where Jiang Chen had gone.

• Jiang Shuyue questioned Jiang Chen about cheating, then learned from Huahua how to answer General Qin’s question about dealing with a traitor.
• Huahua told Jiang Shuyue that Deng Haocheng had joined the examiners to compete with Zhou Yunshen, and Jiang Shuyue realized her husband might predict the questions.
• Jiang Shuyue invited Jiang Chen to stay at the Marquis’s Residence and promised to pay for his watermelons.
• Jiang An learned Jiang Chen was staying at the Marquis’s Residence after arranging for seven women to publicly accuse him of improper behavior.
• Jiang An abandoned his plan to use the Liu Family’s concern for its reputation, deciding the Marquis’s household was too shameless to intimidate.

Jiang An planned to damage Jiang Chen’s chances in the Military Selection by spreading rumors that he would place highly and then accusing him of cheating. Mei Niang informed Madam Jiang, who decided to use Jiang An’s ambition against him while asking the Liu Family to protect Jiang Chen.

• Jiang An asked Mei Niang how to ruin Jiang Chen’s chances in the Military Selection, and she suggested publicizing his expected success so people would suspect cheating.
• Jiang An praised Mei Niang, gave her silver, and left to spread the rumor about Jiang Chen.
• Mei Niang told Xiao Yu to take the silver and secretly inform Madam Jiang about Jiang An’s plan.
• Madam Jiang rejected the elderly servant’s suggestion to kill Jiang An and decided to give him a post in the Military Selection so his actions could expose him.
• Madam Jiang told the elderly servant to warn her father to guard Jiang Chen’s reputation against trouble.