Recaps

Ye Tangtang handed out porridge and buns to disaster victims with Jun Yuyuan, boosting her and Emperor Father's reputations among the people. When Prince Yue arrived and eyed her suspiciously, she hid behind Jun Yuyuan, sensing that she had become his target.

• Ye Tangtang bought stuffed buns with her gold sycees and helped distribute them alongside Jun Yuyuan, while the victims learned she was the Ninth Princess.
• The victims praised Ye Tangtang and Jun Yuyuan as a well-matched couple, and Jun Yuyuan declined to correct them while they continued serving food.
• A toddler hugged Jun Yuyuan, kissed him, and then kissed Ye Tangtang; Jun Yuyuan wiped her cheek and falsely claimed the child had left drool there.
• Prince Yue arrived and announced that he had opened another porridge tent at the West City Gate, but the victims praised Ye Tangtang for feeding them.
• Ye Tangtang said Emperor Father had ordered the relief effort, prompting the victims to praise him, while Prince Yue glared at her and she hid behind Jun Yuyuan.

Ye Tangtang returned to the palace and found Ye Yubei staying overnight with Shen Qingqing, while Ye Muxue and Empress Lu worried that she had exposed their family’s political troubles. After Ye Tangtang woke from a nightmare about being strangled, Ye Yubei assigned eight personal guards to protect her, leaving her confident she could go wherever she pleased.

• Ye Tangtang withheld a scandal about Consort Shu and the King of Yue from Jun Yuyuan, then returned late and saw refugees sleeping in the snow.
• Chunyu told Ye Tangtang that Ye Yubei was with Shen Qingqing, and Ye Tangtang assumed they were making her a little sister.
• Ye Muxue complained to Empress Lu that Ye Yubei had stayed at the Palace of Gathered Elegance, and Empress Lu suspected Ye Tangtang had revealed her family's political troubles.
• Ye Tangtang suffered a nightmare in which someone grabbed her by the throat, and Shen Qingqing and Ye Yubei comforted her until she fell asleep again.
• Ye Yubei assigned eight personal guards to protect Ye Tangtang, who delighted in her new freedom to swagger around the palace.

Ye Tangtang showed off the eight shadow guards Emperor Father had assigned to protect her, then invited Jun Yuyuan to accompany her outside the palace. At the Palace of Gathered Purity, Physician Liu discovered Consort Shu was pregnant, and Ye Yubei confronted her about the child’s father while keeping her alive for now.

• Ye Tangtang paraded through the palace with eight shadow guards, stirring envy in Ye Muxue and astonishment among her imperial brothers.
• Ye Tangtang showed the guards to Jun Yuyuan and invited him to inspect construction on her houses for disaster victims; he agreed to go with her.
• Ye Yubei visited the sealed Palace of Gathered Purity, where Consort Shu pleaded that she had not used incense to harm him.
• Physician Liu examined Consort Shu and announced that she was more than a month pregnant, leaving her stunned and terrified.
• Ye Yubei accused Consort Shu of carrying another man's child and hinted that he knew the father was connected to a possible rebellion.
• Ye Yubei left Consort Shu confined in the palace, saying he would spare her for now because she was still useful.

Ye Tangtang visited the porridge stall, where Prince Yue’s relief efforts had drawn disaster victims away from the Emperor’s distribution site. She suspected Prince Yue was seeking political advantage because of Consort Shu’s arrest, then angrily called men scumbags, leaving Jun Yuyuan baffled by her accusations.

• Ye Tangtang asked the guards to serve generous portions of thicker porridge, then played with the baby who called her the prettiest big sister.
• Jun Yuyuan stopped the baby from kissing Ye Tangtang, but grew jealous when she gave the baby three lollipops after giving him only one.
• Lord Zhang told Ye Tangtang that half the disaster victims had gone to the West City Gate for Prince Yue’s sweet porridge.
• Jun Yuyuan explained that Prince Yue’s relief work had won him public praise and made his reputation eclipse the Emperor’s.
• Ye Tangtang suspected Prince Yue had acted because Consort Shu was arrested, then called him and other men scumbags.
• Jun Yuyuan asked Ye Tangtang why she was angry, while she privately decided he would have many women if he could perform.

Ye Tangtang and Jun Yuyuan were ambushed by a large group of assassins while traveling through the snow. Jun Yuyuan protected her and helped defeat the attackers, but he collapsed against her afterward despite insisting his wound was minor.

• Ye Tangtang told Jun Yuyuan about Prince Yue's affair with Consort Shu and joked that she would marry many princess consorts herself.
• Assassins attacked Ye Tangtang's carriage, and Jun Yuyuan pulled her out as arrows destroyed the carriage and killed its horse.
• Ye Tangtang and Jun Yuyuan fled toward the woods while Jun Yuyuan fought the attackers and told her to keep her distance.
• Jun Yuyuan rushed to save Ye Tangtang from an archer's arrow, then dodged more arrows while carrying her from the treetop.
• After the assassins were defeated, Ye Tangtang bandaged Jun Yuyuan's injured arm and checked on the wounded shadow guards.
• Jun Yuyuan suddenly collapsed against Ye Tangtang, then wrapped his arms around her while the shadow guards noted his injury was only a cut.

King of Yue revealed his rebellion plans to Liu Rumei after she confronted him about his weapons and troops, then confined her. After a second assassination attempt on Ye Tangtang, she returned to the palace with Jun Yuyuan and told Ye Yubei that he had saved her.

• King of Yue berated his guards for failing to abduct Ye Tangtang and ordered them to receive fifty strokes.
• Liu Rumei confronted Ye Yuqing about his troops, weapons, and plans to rebel, and he admitted she had discovered his scheme.
• Ye Yuqing told Liu Rumei he would spare her if she behaved, then had her confined to her room.
• Ye Yuqing vowed to rescue A Yue and their child from the palace and make Ye Yubei pay.
• Ye Tangtang returned to the palace bloodstained after another attack, and Ye Yubei called for imperial physicians.
• Ye Tangtang told Ye Yubei that Jun Yuyuan had saved her during both attacks.

After Jun Yuyuan rescued Ye Tangtang from another attack, Ye Yubei rewarded him with gold while ordering an investigation into the attackers. Ye Tangtang shared a meal with Jun Yuyuan, then noticed a possible problem with the incense just before Shen Qingqing fainted, leaving Ye Yubei rushing to her side.

• Ye Yubei thanked Jun Yuyuan for saving Ye Tangtang and promised Bai Yu would investigate the attacks.
• Ye Tangtang asked Jun Yuyuan for his reward money, and he agreed to give her all of it.
• Ye Tangtang invited Jun Yuyuan to eat hot pot, and Shen Qingqing wondered why they were so close.
• After Jun Yuyuan left, Ye Tangtang noticed Shen Qingqing thought the incense smelled different and suspected it might be dangerous.
• Shen Qingqing fainted, and Ye Tangtang cried for help as Ye Yubei hurried to the Palace of Gathered Elegance.

Imperial physicians discovered that Shen Qingqing had been poisoned and might never conceive again, while Ye Tangtang accused the Empress of harming her. Lingyun traced the dangerous incense to Consort Shu, whom Ye Yubei confronted, but she denied reaching Shen Qingqing and taunted him about his past.

• Imperial Physician Liu diagnosed Shen Qingqing with poisoning and warned that her health had been damaged so severely that she might never conceive again.
• Ye Tangtang told Ye Yubei that Shen Qingqing had complained about the incense and accused the Empress of harming her after a visit to Phoenix Hall.
• Lingyun examined the incense and identified duo luo, saying Consort Shu was likely the only person capable of making it.
• Ye Yubei stormed into Consort Shu's quarters, seized her by the throat, and demanded to know why she had tried to murder Shen Qingqing.
• Consort Shu denied responsibility and mocked Ye Yubei over his past and his doomed love.

Ye Yubei confronted Consort Shu and the Empress over the plot against Shen Qingqing, uncovering the Empress’s crimes and ordering her deposition. The Empress then revealed that Shen Qingqing had chosen to drink the medicine herself, leaving Ye Yubei shaken.

• Ye Yubei released Consort Shu and threatened to use her pregnancy and the King of Yue’s secret weapons program against him and the Lu Family.
• Ye Yubei confronted the Empress about the incense planted in Shen Qingqing’s room, and a young eunuch testified that she had ordered him to replace it.
• The Empress denied responsibility, but Ye Yubei accused Lu Yuanxi of orchestrating events thirteen years earlier and making Shen Qingqing drink a substance.
• Ye Yubei kicked the Empress away and announced that he would depose her and confine her to the Cold Palace.
• The Empress claimed Shen Qingqing had willingly drunk the medicine and hated Ye Yubei, and he hurled her to the floor.

Ye Yubei feared Shen Qingqing no longer loved him after learning she had willingly drunk safflower, but she reassured him that she had once wanted only to survive and had since decided to give him another chance. The Empress and Ye Muxue faced the collapse of their influence as Ye Yubei returned to Shen Qingqing and reconciled with her.

• The Empress told Ye Yubei that Shen Qingqing had happily drunk safflower to ensure she would never bear him another child, and Ye Yubei left in despair.
• Ye Muxue found the Empress in the ruined palace, and the Empress warned her that the Lu Family had fallen and her own position as Empress was in danger.
• Ye Yubei confronted Shen Qingqing at the Palace of Gathered Elegance, but Ye Tangtang stopped him from hurting her.
• Shen Qingqing admitted that she had willingly drunk the safflower to focus on surviving with Ye Tangtang, but later chose to give Ye Yubei another chance because she still loved him.
• Ye Yubei embraced Shen Qingqing, and Eunuch Wang dragged Ye Tangtang away before her parents could kiss.

Ye Tangtang discussed finding a suitable man to have a healthy baby with, while Jun Yuyuan tried to persuade her that he was the best choice. Their conversation was interrupted when the King of Yue and Lord Lu’s forces surrounded the imperial city, and Jun Yuyuan asked whether Tangtang would leave him.

• Ye Tangtang decided she would choose a handsome, capable man to have a daughter with and set out to find the Young Marquis.
• Jun Yuyuan warned Ye Tangtang that the Young Marquis was unhealthy and suggested that Jun Yuyuan himself fit her ideal requirements.
• Ye Tangtang thought Jun Yuyuan could not have babies, angering him as he denied the rumor.
• Palace guards reported that the King of Yue and Lord Lu’s troops had surrounded the imperial city, and Ye Tangtang realized the unrest had begun earlier than expected.
• Jun Yuyuan took Ye Tangtang somewhere safe, and she said she would stay with Emperor Father because he now remembered and treated her well.
• Jun Yuyuan asked Ye Tangtang whether she would leave him.

Prince Yue and Grand Secretary Lu surrounded the Imperial City with a much larger force than the Imperial Guards could muster, leaving Ye Yubei short on time and options. He told Ye Tangtang that she and Consort Shu should escape through the palace secret passage, but she refused to leave him behind.

• Ye Tangtang and Jun Yuyuan learned that Prince Yue and Grand Secretary Lu had encircled the palace with twenty thousand troops, and Jun Yuyuan insisted she stay beside him.
• Ye Tangtang watched Prince Yue's army from the city wall, blamed the altered plot on herself, and bit Jun Yuyuan after he called her stupid.
• Ye Yubei arrived at the gate tower, where Prince Yue demanded that he hand over Consort Shu and Grand Secretary Lu claimed the Lu Family had been driven to rebel.
• Ye Yubei threatened Lu Qin with an arrow and learned that fewer than three thousand Imperial Guards were available, while reinforcements would take three days to arrive.
• Ye Yubei ordered Consort Shu brought to him and told Ye Tangtang to escape with her through the Imperial Palace Secret Passage, but Ye Tangtang hugged his arm and refused to go.

Ye Tangtang used explosive packs to attack Prince Yue and his forces, turning the standoff in Ye Yubei’s favor. The chapter ended when Commander Bai reported that Consort Shu had poisoned herself to avoid implicating Prince Yue.

• Ye Yubei tried to persuade Ye Tangtang to leave while he faced the King of Yue, but she refused to let go of his arm.
• The King of Yue taunted Ye Tangtang about his earlier attempt to have her killed, so she prepared her explosive packs.
• Ye Tangtang lit an explosive pack and threw it beside the King of Yue, injuring him and leaving his legs numb.
• Ye Tangtang threw a second explosive pack, but the King of Yue’s people scattered before it could hurt many of them.
• Commander Bai arrived alone and told Ye Yubei that Consort Shu had taken poison and killed herself to avoid implicating Prince Yue.

Ye Yubei concealed Consort Shu’s death while the King of Yue threatened to attack the imperial city unless she was released. As the palace prepared for a siege, Ye Tangtang and Shen Qingqing stayed with Ye Yubei, and Jun Yuyuan promised to protect Ye Tangtang.

• Commander Bai told Ye Yubei that Consort Shu had poisoned herself, and Ye Yubei ordered him to keep her death secret.
• The King of Yue demanded Consort Shu’s release and threatened to raze the imperial city, while Grand Secretary Lu urged him to attack.
• Ye Yubei arranged for the palace residents to flee through a secret passage, but Ye Tangtang and Shen Qingqing refused to leave him.
• Ye Tangtang asked Jun Yuyuan to protect her, and he agreed; Ye Yubei accepted his help as the palace faced a possible siege.
• Ye Tangtang gave Jun Yuyuan an explosive pack for protection and returned to her palace with Shen Qingqing.

As the King of Yue’s forces attacked the imperial palace, Jun Yuyuan agreed to escort Ye Tangtang to safety. Ye Tangtang instead opened her mystery boxes, found a handgun, and fired at the King of Yue, leaving both armies stunned.

• Ye Tangtang woke to fighting outside and joined Jun Yuyuan on the city wall.
• Ye Yubei asked Jun Yuyuan to escort Ye Tangtang out of the city, and Jun Yuyuan agreed.
• Ye Tangtang used her points to open 138 mystery boxes while preparing to leave.
• Ye Tangtang found a handgun and fired at the King of Yue, who fell from his wheelchair as the combatants stared at her.

Ye Tangtang’s strange weapon killed Prince Yue, and the eldest prince arrived with reinforcements to capture Lu Qin. Ye Yubei grew suspicious that his son intended to seize the throne and delayed opening the city gates.

• Ye Tangtang explained her handgun to Jun Yuyuan, who shot and killed Prince Yue.
• Ye Yubei called for the opposing soldiers to surrender and promised not to slaughter the innocent.
• The eldest prince arrived with a vast army, and Lu Qin’s surrounded men surrendered.
• Ye Tangtang warned Ye Yubei not to open the gates because she believed the eldest prince planned a rebellion.
• Ye Yubei kept the gates closed and asked Ye Linci to execute Lu Qin in his place.

Ye Linci revealed his plan to seize the throne after Jun Yuyuan stopped him from killing Lu Qin. As Ye Linci’s troops charged, Jun Yuyuan shot him in the chest, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Ye Linci tried to kill Lu Qin, but Jun Yuyuan struck his wrist and knocked away his sword.
• Ye Yubei ordered Ye Linci to return with his army and offered him the title of Prince An.
• Ye Linci refused the reward and declared that his fifty thousand soldiers could seize the palace.
• Ye Linci ordered his soldiers to charge, and Jun Yuyuan shot him in the chest, causing him to collapse unconscious.

After the rebellion, Ye Tangtang grew reluctant to part with Jun Yuyuan, who was preparing to return to Qin Ye. As he left, he asked her to wait for him to come back and become her consort.

• The palace settled after the rebellion: the Empress was sent to a temple, the King of Yue was punished, the Lu Family was exiled, and the eldest prince was imprisoned.
• Ye Yubei told Ye Tangtang that Jun Yuyuan would leave in a few days, and she admitted she wanted him to stay as her bodyguard.
• Jun Yuyuan asked Ye Tangtang in private why she did not want him to leave, and she reminded him that he owed her a promise.
• Ye Tangtang visited Jun Yuyuan while he packed, made a mess of his belongings, and asked whether he would ever return.
• As Jun Yuyuan departed, Ye Tangtang gave him her pistol and hugged him goodbye.
• Jun Yuyuan told Ye Tangtang not to find a consort while he was away and asked her to wait for him to return as her consort.

On the day of Ye Tangtang’s coming-of-age ceremony, Jun Yuyuan returned as the conquering emperor of the Qin Ye Kingdom and publicly asked her to honor her promise to make him her Princess Consort. Ye Yubei reacted warily, leaving Jun Yuyuan’s marriage proposal unresolved.

• Ye Tangtang remembered Jun Yuyuan’s letters and their promise while preparing for her fifteenth birthday, and she told Shen Qingqing that she wanted only him as her Princess Consort.
• Shen Qingqing warned Ye Tangtang that Jun Yuyuan had become a powerful ruler who might threaten Northern Li, but Ye Tangtang remained certain he would not change.
• At Ye Tangtang’s coming-of-age ceremony, nobles proposed several possible matches for her, including Young Marquis Xie.
• The herald announced Jun Yuyuan’s arrival, and he entered the hall as emperor of the Qin Ye Kingdom.
• Jun Yuyuan reminded Ye Tangtang that she had promised to let him become her Princess Consort, while Ye Yubei decided he would make Jun Yuyuan wait.

Jun Yuyuan asked Ye Tangtang to marry him, and she agreed after he promised to protect her and let her live freely. Shen Qingqing accepted their decision, and the chapter ended with Jun Yuyuan holding Ye Tangtang as she fell asleep.

• Ye Yubei rejected Jun Yuyuan's request for a marriage alliance, but Jun Yuyuan later sneaked into Ye Tangtang's room to see her.
• Jun Yuyuan told Ye Tangtang he had missed her and asked her to marry him; she agreed after he promised to bring her home to visit her family.
• Shen Qingqing found Jun Yuyuan in Ye Tangtang's room and accepted their marriage after he swore to protect Ye Tangtang and take no other woman.
• Jun Yuyuan kissed Ye Tangtang again, then held her in his arms as she fell asleep.

Ye Tangtang and Jun Yuyuan married in a lavish ceremony, and she became Empress of the Qin Ye Kingdom. After their wedding night, Ye Tangtang refused the system's offer to leave, choosing to stay with her husband and family.

• Jun Yuyuan and Ye Tangtang held their wedding in Northern Li, where Jun Yuyuan vowed she would be his only wife and Ye Yubei gave her hand to him.
• Jun Yuyuan brought Ye Tangtang to the Qin Ye Kingdom, cared for her as she slept, and promised they could wait until the next day to consummate their marriage.
• Ye Tangtang and Jun Yuyuan ascended the imperial seats together at her coronation, but Jun Yuyuan carried her away when she grew tired.
• Jun Yuyuan arranged a meal of Northern Li dishes for Ye Tangtang, then the two consummated their marriage.
• The system asked Ye Tangtang whether she wanted to leave after Jun Yuyuan's affection reached 100%, and she refused because she had a home and loved ones.

Five years later, Ye Tangtang took Little Yuanxiao and Little Tangyuan out to enjoy the Imperial City, but sudden snow forced them to take shelter until Jun Yuyuan found them. He explained that he secretly followed them to keep them safe, and the family headed back to the palace together.

• Ye Tangtang strolled through the Imperial City with Little Yuanxiao and Little Tangyuan and bought them candied hawthorn.
• As the snow grew heavier, Ye Tangtang took shelter with the boys, and Little Yuanxiao spotted Jun Yuyuan approaching with an umbrella.
• Jun Yuyuan lifted the boys and told Ye Tangtang that he secretly followed her outings because he worried about her and the children.
• Jun Yuyuan carried the family to their carriage and promised to serve roasted chicken drumsticks, while Little Tangyuan offered him candied hawthorn and defended Ye Tangtang.

Ye Tangtang tried to keep Jun Yuyuan out of bed so she could sleep with their sons, but he eventually joined them. After putting both boys to sleep, Jun Yuyuan turned his attention to Ye Tangtang.

• At dinner, Ye Tangtang said she would sleep with Little Tangyuan and Little Yuanxiao, and Jun Yuyuan left to handle memorials.
• Jun Yuyuan ordered General Liu and Marquis Fang to lead reinforcements to Northern Li, then returned to find Ye Tangtang had barricaded the door.
• Jun Yuyuan coaxed Little Tangyuan into opening the door by promising candy, but the boy pushed him back out when he received none.
• Little Yuanxiao opened the door for Jun Yuyuan, who joined Ye Tangtang and the boys in bed.
• Jun Yuyuan put both boys to sleep, then asked Ye Tangtang for a reward.

Ye Tangtang and Jun Yuyuan tried to be intimate, but Little Tangyuan interrupted them before Jun Yuyuan resumed after the child fell asleep. The next day, Ye Tangtang woke tired and nearly let slip a modern term for Jun Yuyuan before checking that her system was still there.

• Ye Tangtang offered Jun Yuyuan a kiss, and he pulled her into an intimate embrace despite her protests about the sleeping children.
• Little Tangyuan woke and crawled to Ye Tangtang, so Jun Yuyuan tried to make him sleep at the foot of the bed.
• After Little Tangyuan fell asleep, Jun Yuyuan continued kissing Ye Tangtang, and the two spent the night together.
• Ye Tangtang woke in Jun Yuyuan's arms, and he asked whether the marks on her neck still hurt before leaving for court.
• Little Tangyuan and Little Yuanxiao visited Ye Tangtang, and Little Yuanxiao mistook the marks on her arm for an injury and went to fetch medicine.
• Jun Yuyuan woke Ye Tangtang to eat, and she nearly called him "Hubby" before asking her system whether it was still there.

Ye Tangtang and Jun Yuyuan celebrated the Qixi Festival together and planned to travel after their son Ze inherited the throne. A year later, as they began their journey, Jun Yuyuan revealed that he had always known Ye Tangtang’s thoughts, leaving her shocked.

• Little Tangyuan and Little Yuanxiao brought Ye Tangtang gifts while Jun Yuyuan continued teaching their elder brother, Ze, to prepare him to rule.
• Jun Yuyuan promised to take Ye Tangtang traveling once Ze inherited the throne, and they planned to visit Yunnan first.
• Ye Tangtang and Jun Yuyuan celebrated Qixi by buying lotus lanterns, making wishes, and watching fireworks.
• One year later, Ye Tangtang asked Jun Yuyuan to take her to Hangzhou as they traveled by carriage.
• Jun Yuyuan told Ye Tangtang that he had known she had an ulterior motive because he could hear her thoughts.