Recaps

After Ye Yubei spared two court officials, Shen Qingqing made Ye Tangtang sleep in her own room, but Tangtang sneaked out to avoid school and encountered Jun Yuyuan killing two eunuchs. Jun Yuyuan spared her, and the chapter ended with Tangtang hugging him as she feared he might kill her.

• Ye Yubei received Shen Qingqing’s praise for sparing two men, but Shen later shut him out again.
• Shen Qingqing sent Ye Tangtang to sleep alone and ordered Chunyu and Xiahe to watch over her.
• After her mother left, Ye Tangtang sneaked out, intending to catch a cold in Tingxin Lake so she could skip school.
• Ye Tangtang saw Jun Yuyuan kill two eunuchs and realized he was the male lead.
• Jun Yuyuan recognized Ye Tangtang, withdrew his sword, and questioned why she was at the lake.
• As Ye Tangtang worried Jun Yuyuan would silence her, she hugged his waist, leaving him frozen.

After earning 1,000 points for hugging Jun Yuyuan, Ye Tangtang spent her draws on treats and ice cream, then escaped his suspicions about what she had seen. She tried to bathe in the frozen Heart-Listening Lake to avoid school, but Jun Yuyuan stopped her and took her back to the Palace of Gathered Elegance.

• The system announced Ye Tangtang had earned 1,000 points, and she used them on a hundred draws that yielded snacks, skates, a grill, and ice cream but no Return Soul Pill.
• Jun Yuyuan mistook Ye Tangtang's ice cream for snow, tasted it, and let her go after she claimed she had been temporarily blind.
• Ye Tangtang celebrated her escape, then headed for Heart-Listening Lake and considered bathing in the frozen water to avoid school.
• Jun Yuyuan followed Ye Tangtang and stopped her as she began removing her clothes to bathe in the cold.
• Jun Yuyuan covered Ye Tangtang with her cloak and led her toward the Palace of Gathered Elegance.

Ye Tangtang returned to the Palace of Gathered Elegance after her midnight bath, then prepared for her first day at the Royal Academy. As Lu Wuyou and Song Jinshi confronted her over the Third Princess, she recognized them as the Third Princess’s devoted followers.

• Jun Yuyuan brought Ye Tangtang back to the Palace of Gathered Elegance and warned her not to bathe outside in the middle of the night.
• Shen Qingqing took off Ye Tangtang’s clothes while she slept, and Ye Tangtang woke thinking a flower-plucking fiend had attacked her.
• Shen Qingqing decided against calling an Imperial Physician and dressed Ye Tangtang for her first day at school.
• Shen Qingqing packed Ye Tangtang’s cloth bag with pastries, and Ye Tangtang headed to the Royal Academy.
• Lu Wuyou and Song Jinshi blocked Ye Tangtang and accused her of bullying the Third Princess.

Ye Tangtang arrived at the Royal Academy, where Song Jinshi and Lu Wuyou heard her thoughts revealing their grim fates and tried to stay close for more spoilers. As she met her siblings, her thoughts exposed the dangers awaiting Ye Mushuang, Ye Linxuan, Ye Linze, and Ye Linxun, leaving Ye Linxun shocked that he would die at eighteen.

• Ye Tangtang’s thoughts revealed that Song Jinshi would contract rabies and Lu Wuyou would become paralyzed, so the two welcomed her warmly in hopes of hearing more.
• Yun Qi introduced himself as Ye Tangtang’s teacher, and her thoughts revealed that Consort De was cheating on him.
• Ye Mushuang hugged Ye Tangtang, whose thoughts warned that He Wei would betray her for Fifth Young Lady Lu and that Ye Mushuang would die of grief.
• Ye Tangtang’s thoughts revealed that Ye Linxuan would die on the battlefield and Ye Linze would die three days after becoming crown prince; both decided to avoid those paths.
• Ye Linxun heard Ye Tangtang call him handsome, then learned from her thoughts that he would die when he turned eighteen.

Ye Tangtang joined class, drew new items after Jun Yuyuan let her shake his hand, and promptly fell asleep during Grand Tutor Yun’s poetry lesson. Ye Yubei noticed how quiet the palace felt without his daughter bothering him.

• Ye Linxun heard Ye Tangtang’s thoughts that her second brother had been executed after being framed, and felt his neck in alarm.
• The Third Princess tried to call Lu Wuyou and Song Jinshi away from Ye Tangtang, but both chose to stay near her.
• Grand Tutor Yun warned the students that skipping class or failing to memorize poems would earn them strokes with the disciplinary ruler.
• Jun Yuyuan came to class, and Ye Tangtang persuaded him to shake her hand so she could earn points and make fifty draws.
• Ye Tangtang fell asleep during Grand Tutor Yun’s lesson, hit her head on the desk, and Song Jinshi was sent outside for laughing.
• Ye Yubei quietly reviewed memorials and realized he was unaccustomed to the palace being peaceful without Ye Tangtang.

Ye Tangtang slept through a poetry lesson but impressed Grand Tutor Yun with her explanation of “Goose Goose Goose” and won a Gold Medal. After class, she tried her new ice skates on a slope, and Ye Yubei saw her speeding downhill as if she were flying.

• Ye Tangtang woke in class and answered Grand Tutor Yun’s question about “Goose Goose Goose” after Ye Mushuang whispered the topic to her.
• Grand Tutor Yun awarded Ye Tangtang a Gold Medal, which she happily bit and treasured for its value.
• Ye Tangtang shared her food with the princes and others who followed her as she left the Royal Academy.
• Ye Tangtang put on her newly won Ice Skates and sped down a slope, where Ye Yubei saw her and wondered if she could fly.

Ye Tangtang crashed into Ye Yubei while testing her wheeled skates, and he worried over her rather than punishing her. After discovering her Royal Academy Gold Medal, Ye Yubei promised to let her leave the palace if she persuaded her mother to let him stay the night.

• Ye Tangtang rolled down a slope on her skates and collided with Ye Yubei, who checked that she was unharmed.
• Ye Yubei ordered Eunuch Wang to fetch replacement shoes and carried Ye Tangtang to the Hall of Mental Cultivation, while Ye Linxun and the other princes watched in surprise.
• Ye Yubei nearly threw away Ye Tangtang's skates, but let her keep them after she pleaded with him to be careful.
• Ye Tangtang tried to convince Ye Yubei to let her skip the academy, but he noticed her Gold Medal and praised her achievement.
• Ye Tangtang asked to go outside the palace, and Ye Yubei agreed on the condition that she persuade her mother to let him stay at the Palace of Gathered Elegance.

Ye Tangtang played with her brothers and returned to Shen Qingqing, while her gossip about another affair made Ye Yubei flee to the imperial garden. Shen Qingqing followed to watch and unexpectedly encountered him there.

• Ye Tangtang refused Ye Yubei's offer to take her outside the palace, then slipped away with her Fire Wheels.
• Ye Linxun and the other princes tried the Ice Skates in the rear garden, and playing together made them reconsider fighting over the throne.
• Ye Tangtang showed Shen Qingqing her Gold Medal, and Ye Yubei arrived to visit them.
• Ye Tangtang's thoughts revealed another affair in the rear garden, so Ye Yubei made an excuse and left.
• Shen Qingqing hurried to the rear garden to watch, where she ran into Ye Yubei as they both heard crows calling.

Ye Yubei returned with Shen Qingqing to keep Ye Tangtang company, and Tangtang entertained the family with her unusual flashlight before going to sleep. An assassin entered her room, but someone named Jin Yun stopped him just before he could strike.

• Ye Yubei brought Shen Qingqing back to Ye Tangtang and ordered the three adulterers killed.
• Ye Tangtang imagined that her parents had gone to make her a little sister, while Shen Qingqing and Ye Yubei reacted awkwardly.
• Ye Yubei left after Shen Qingqing said Tangtang was sleepy, taking Tangtang's bright flashlight to light his way.
• Ye Tangtang went to bed, thinking about warm pajamas she could make with her strange gadgets.
• A black-clad assassin slipped into Ye Tangtang's room, but a stone struck his wrist and knocked his sword away as someone called out, "Jin Yun, what are you doing?"

Jun Yuyuan stopped Jin Yun from killing Ye Tangtang, who slept through the danger and later received 500 points for dreaming about him. Ye Tangtang used her new camera to photograph Shen Qingqing and the palace maids, then left for class with her bunny bag and gave Shen Qingqing her sanitary pads.

• Jun Yuyuan dismissed Jin Yun after warning him not to endanger the plan by targeting Ye Tangtang.
• Ye Tangtang woke to find she had gained 500 points and used them for fifty draws, winning a camera instead of the pajamas she wanted.
• Ye Tangtang photographed Shen Qingqing and the palace maids, astonishing them with the lifelike pictures.
• Shen Qingqing prepared Ye Tangtang's school bag, but Ye Tangtang replaced it with her fluffy bunny bag and gave her mother several packs of sanitary pads.
• Ye Tangtang pressed her face against Shen Qingqing's chest, and Shen Qingqing pulled her away by the collar.

Ye Tangtang went to school, where Lu Wuyou defended her from Ye Muxue and declared he wanted to become Ye Tangtang’s prince consort instead. On the way, Ye Tangtang caught up with Jun Yuyuan and showed him her unusual creations, attracting Ye Linze’s curiosity as well.

• Ye Muxue tried to attack Ye Tangtang over her pretty bunny bag, but Lu Wuyou stepped in to protect her.
• Lu Wuyou rejected Ye Muxue and said he wanted to become Ye Tangtang’s prince consort, while Ye Muxue angrily severed ties with him.
• Ye Tangtang thanked Lu Wuyou, then followed Jun Yuyuan, who slowed down so she could catch up.
• Ye Tangtang showed Jun Yuyuan her bunny bag, Ice Skates, and camera, and Ye Linze came over to ask about the camera.

Ye Tangtang used her camera to take photographs at the academy and began charging people for them, quickly earning gold and silver ingots. Grand Tutor Yun arrived to start class, and Ye Tangtang proved the camera’s power by showing him his own photograph.

• Ye Tangtang took photographs of Ye Linze, Ye Mushuang, Lu Wuyou, and others as they crowded around her, while Ye Muxue left for Fengyi Hall.
• Ye Tangtang secretly photographed Jun Yuyuan and thought she could make a fortune selling his picture.
• Ye Tangtang charged Ye Linze a gold ingot for more photographs, then collected payment from Lu Wuyou and the other students.
• Grand Tutor Yun arrived and sent the students back to their seats before questioning Ye Tangtang about her camera.
• Ye Tangtang took Grand Tutor Yun’s photograph and showed it to him, leaving him stunned.

Ye Tangtang earned silver by taking pictures around the academy and for her siblings, while her thoughts alerted Ye Mushuang that Young General He Wei was deceiving her. Ye Mushuang rejected his request for imperial physicians, and He Wei left the palace empty-handed.

• Ye Tangtang photographed the academy for Grand Tutor Yun and received another silver medal as a reward.
• Ye Tangtang took paid portraits of Ye Linxun, Song Jinshi, and Ye Mushuang, who gave her all her savings.
• He Wei arrived and claimed he had come to see Ye Mushuang, while Ye Tangtang’s thoughts revealed that he wanted an imperial physician for his sick childhood sweetheart.
• Ye Mushuang tested He Wei by offering to accompany him to his grandmother, then refused to help when he tried to stop her from going.
• He Wei appealed to Ye Tangtang for help, but she ignored him to keep taking pictures, and he left the palace without an imperial physician.

Ye Tangtang sold portraits in the palace and made a fortune while her conquest progress barely changed. Ye Muxue and Empress Lu plotted against her, and Ye Yubei discovered the princess earning her own money.

• Ye Tangtang used her camera to sell portraits to palace maids and eunuchs for one hundred copper coins each.
• Ye Muxue complained to Empress Lu that Ye Tangtang had won over Lu Wuyou, Song Jinshi, and several princes, and described her strange devices.
• Empress Lu urged Ye Muxue to keep pursuing Lu Wuyou and ordered palace maids who bought portraits from Ye Tangtang punished with twenty strokes and sent to the Bondservant Office.
• Ye Yubei arrived as Ye Tangtang struggled to finish the long line of portrait customers before lunch.
• Eunuch Wang found Ye Tangtang selling portraits, and Ye Yubei heard her call him a stingy father who gave her no allowance.

Ye Tangtang lost her customers when Ye Yubei arrived, but he gave her valuable treasures and posed for a photograph. Later, Jun Yuyuan paid her in gold for a joint portrait, and she eagerly agreed.

• Ye Yubei scared away Ye Tangtang’s customers, then ordered treasures delivered to the Ninth Princess.
• Ye Tangtang thanked Ye Yubei and took a photograph of him with her camera.
• Ye Yubei asked for a picture with Ye Tangtang’s mother, but gave up when Ye Tangtang doubted her mother would agree.
• Ye Tangtang ran into Jun Yuyuan, who asked her to take his picture.
• Ye Tangtang charged Jun Yuyuan a gold ingot for his portrait and another for a joint picture, and he paid both amounts.

Ye Tangtang earned money by taking a photo with Jun Yuyuan, secretly mocked him as impotent, then hurried to reunite with her mother after hearing the Empress had summoned her. Jun Yuyuan later studied their picture for hours, puzzling over how short Ye Tangtang was and why they looked like siblings.

• Ye Tangtang posed for a photo beside Jun Yuyuan, touched his hand to earn points, and privately wondered whether he was impotent because he never had a woman.
• Jun Yuyuan grew angry at Ye Tangtang's thoughts, took the photo, and left while Ye Tangtang celebrated the money she had earned.
• Qiushuang told Ye Tangtang that Empress Lu had taken Shen Qingqing to Phoenix Hall, so Ye Tangtang rushed there to save her mother.
• Shen Qingqing assured Ye Tangtang that she was safe, and they returned home together as Ye Tangtang showed off her earnings.
• Jun Yuyuan sat with the photo for nearly two hours, commented that Ye Tangtang was short, and showed it to Jin Yun.

Jun Yuyuan secretly examined a painting of himself with Ye Tangtang, while Ye Tangtang worried about Empress Lu and used her points to draw a robot vacuum and dinosaur pajamas. Her new outfit terrified the palace maids and Shen Qingqing, who fainted when she saw the little dinosaur was Tang Tang.

• Jun Yuyuan punished Jin Yun for saying he and Ye Tangtang looked like siblings, then dismissed Ling Feng after he called them a couple.
• Ye Tangtang asked Shen Qingqing whether Empress Lu had harmed her and thought about how to bring down the Empress.
• Ye Tangtang spent 50 points on a draw and received a robot vacuum and dinosaur pajamas.
• Ye Tangtang put on the dinosaur pajamas and ran outside to show Shen Qingqing.
• Chunyu and Xiahe mistook Ye Tangtang for a monster, and Shen Qingqing fainted when she saw her.

Ye Tangtang’s dinosaur pajamas frightened Shen Qingqing, Ye Yubei, and the palace staff, who mistook her for a monster. After Shen Qingqing recognized her daughter once the hood came off, the imperial physicians fled at the sight of Tang Tang in her pajamas.

• Shen Qingqing fainted after seeing Ye Tangtang dressed in dinosaur pajamas, then fainted again when she opened her eyes and saw the costume’s horns.
• Ye Yubei rushed to the Palace of Gathered Elegance, drew his sword at Ye Tangtang, and lowered it after recognizing her familiar complaints.
• Ye Yubei sent for the imperial physicians while Shen Qingqing woke and feared a monster had eaten Tang Tang.
• Ye Tangtang removed her hood, and Shen Qingqing recognized her and embraced her.
• The imperial physicians panicked and fled when Ye Tangtang opened the door, while Ye Yubei refused to try on her pajamas.

Ye Tangtang wore dinosaur pajamas that frightened the palace attendants, then welcomed Jun Yuyuan into her room and took his gold to redo a painting. She also used a handshake with him to earn points before sending him away so she could sleep.

• Ye Tangtang teased Ye Yubei about having no new gossip or cuckold's hat, then claimed an old man in her dreams had given her the pajamas.
• Ye Tangtang left Shen Qingqing and Ye Yubei's room, frightening Eunuch Wang into fainting again when he saw her dinosaur outfit.
• Jun Yuyuan climbed through Ye Tangtang's window to check on the commotion, then asked her to repaint his picture.
• Ye Tangtang demanded half the original price for the redo, accepted two gold ingots, and promised to paint it the next day.
• Ye Tangtang shook Jun Yuyuan's hand to earn five hundred points, then told him to leave and went to bed.

Ye Tangtang used her draws to obtain medicine, seasonings, and a robot vacuum, then decided to earn money by selling barbecue. As palace rumors called her a monster, she headed to the imperial kitchens to choose ingredients, where she spotted a lamb for roasting.

• Ye Tangtang spent fifty draws and received assorted items, including amoxicillin capsules and a deluxe seasoning pack.
• Ye Yubei checked on Shen Qingqing, then returned to the Hall of Mental Cultivation with Eunuch Wang; rumors about a monster resembling Ye Tangtang spread through the palace the next morning.
• Empress Lu heard the monster rumors and saw them as an opportunity.
• Ye Tangtang showed Chunyu and Shen Qingqing a robot vacuum that cleaned the corridor and Shen Qingqing's room.
• Ye Tangtang told Shen Qingqing she wanted barbecue and planned to sell it alongside her paintings to make money.
• Ye Tangtang went to the imperial kitchens for ingredients and eyed a little lamb as perfect for whole roast lamb.

Ye Tangtang’s barbecue was ruined by Consort Li’s attendants, so she knocked Consort Li down and fled to her father for protection. Ye Yubei confronted the eunuchs who chased her, while Tangtang kept up her tearful act and privately mocked him.

• Ye Tangtang set up a grill at the palace crossroads, but Consort Li ordered her attendants to teach the Ninth Princess a lesson and they kicked over the grill.
• Ye Tangtang headbutted Consort Li, then ran from the eunuchs pursuing her; Ye Linmo held one back long enough for her to escape.
• Ye Tangtang reached the Imperial Study and told Ye Yubei that Consort Li and her attendants had bullied her.
• Ye Yubei took Tangtang outside and demanded to know whether the eunuchs had bullied his daughter.
• Ye Tangtang accused the eunuchs and pretended to cry in Ye Yubei’s arms as he promised to see justice done.

Ye Yubei punished Consort Li for destroying Ye Tangtang’s barbecue stall and arranged for it to be repaired. In the imperial study, Ye Tangtang’s thoughts revealed that Grand Secretary Lu would betray Northern Li and help Ye Yulin, leaving Ye Yubei wary of Lu and newly aware that his daughter had praised him.

• Ye Yubei ordered Consort Li’s eunuchs beaten to death after they offended Ye Tangtang, then questioned Consort Li about her treatment of the princess.
• Ye Tangtang claimed Consort Li had hurt her, and Ye Yubei examined her before she led him to her destroyed barbecue stall and her injured sixth brother, Ye Linmo.
• Ye Yubei sent Ye Linmo back to his palace for treatment and demoted Consort Li to concubine, ordering her to copy Buddhist scriptures.
• Ye Yubei promised to have Ye Tangtang’s stall repaired, and she happily offered him the first lamb skewer she grilled.
• At the imperial study, Ye Tangtang greeted Grand Secretary Lu, then thought that Lu would betray Northern Li and help Ye Yulin seize the throne; Ye Yubei recognized Lu as one of Ye Yulin’s men.

Grand Secretary Lu asked Ye Yubei to betroth Ye Tangtang to Lu Wuyou, but Ye Yubei refused and reassured his daughter that he would not marry her off. Empress Lu then plotted to use rumors that Ye Tangtang was a demon, and the next morning guards seized Tang Tang after mistaking her dinosaur pajamas for a monster.

• Grand Secretary Lu asked Ye Yubei to arrange a marriage between Ye Tangtang and Lu Wuyou, but Ye Yubei rejected the proposal and comforted Tang Tang.
• Ye Tangtang pretended to cry so Ye Yubei would protect her from marriage, then privately celebrated that her plan had worked.
• After Grand Secretary Lu left, Empress Lu ordered Hongguo to use the demon rumors to bring Ye Tangtang before the Empress Dowager.
• The next morning, guards saw Ye Tangtang in her dinosaur pajamas, called her a monster, and carried her away.

Shen Qingqing was unable to stop the Empress’s maids from taking Ye Tangtang to the Empress Dowager, where Ye Tangtang tried to prove her dinosaur pajamas were not demonic. The Empress Dowager began to doubt the accusation, but Empress Lu presented strange objects from Ye Tangtang’s room as evidence.

• Shen Qingqing slapped Hongguo and demanded that the maids release Ye Tangtang, but they carried the princess away and confined Shen Qingqing to the Palace of Gathered Elegance.
• The maids brought Ye Tangtang to the Palace of Benevolent Peace, where Empress Lu and a Taoist accused her of being a demon.
• Ye Tangtang removed her hood and explained that her horns and tail were part of her pajamas, and the Empress Dowager decided she looked like a person.
• The Empress Dowager felt Ye Tangtang’s pajamas and began to believe the child, but Empress Lu pointed to strange objects taken from Ye Tangtang’s room.

Ye Tangtang charmed the Empress Dowager with strange gadgets and made a fortune selling her photographs and liquid foundation. When Ye Yubei arrived with Shen Qingqing and Jun Yuyuan, Tangtang pretended she had been bullied, and Ye Yubei turned his fury on Empress Lu.

• Ye Tangtang introduced her gadgets to the Empress Dowager, who eagerly posed for photographs and paid her in Gold Sycees.
• Ye Tangtang sold the Empress Dowager Liquid Foundation for ten Gold Sycees while Empress Lu grew angry and the Imperial Preceptor tried to warn the Empress Dowager against her.
• Ye Yubei rushed to the Palace of Benevolent Peace, where he found Ye Tangtang safe and rubbing her earnings against her face.
• Shen Qingqing embraced Ye Tangtang, and Jun Yuyuan revealed through his thoughts that he had sent word to Ye Yubei.
• Ye Tangtang told Ye Yubei that the others had bullied her, and he fixed his chilling gaze on Empress Lu.