Recaps

Ye Tangtang reunited with Shen Qingqing, gained recognition as Princess Chaoyang, and repeatedly exposed infidelity in Ye Yubei’s harem through her thoughts and gossip. As Ye Yubei grew closer to his daughter, he prepared to send her to the Royal Academy, while sparing Consort Li and Master Xue after catching them together.

• Ye Yubei learned Ye Tangtang was his unrecognized daughter, restored Shen Qingqing’s title, and moved mother and daughter out of the Cold Palace.
• Ye Tangtang exposed Zhu Tao and Green Radish’s theft, then befriended Jun Yuyuan and Ye Linmo while settling into the Palace of Gathered Elegance.
• Ye Tangtang fought Consort Shu and Lady Liu, and Ye Yubei caught Lady Liu with her lover and ordered their execution.
• Ye Yubei recognized Ye Tangtang as Princess Chaoyang, while Ye Linxuan and Ye Linze heard her predictions and reconsidered their futures.
• Ye Yubei ordered Ye Tangtang to attend the Royal Academy, but she tried to avoid school and used snacks and excuses to delay him.
• Ye Yubei caught Lady Shu with Xiao Bai and had them executed after the Empress intervened, while Ye Tangtang shared snacks with her mother and father.
• Ye Tangtang’s gossip led Ye Yubei to catch Consort Li meeting Master Xue, but he sent her to Bodhi Temple and let Master Xue leave alive.

Ye Tangtang used her strange gadgets to earn money and win over the people around her while her thoughts exposed danger and betrayal in the palace. The arc ended with Ye Yubei finding her safe after Empress Lu’s attempt to brand her a demon, and turning his attention on the Empress.

• Ye Tangtang witnessed Jun Yuyuan kill two eunuchs at Tingxin Lake, and he let her go after she clung to him.
• Ye Tangtang began attending the Royal Academy, where her thoughts revealed the futures of the princes and other students, and she won a Gold Medal.
• Ye Tangtang’s Ice Skates brought her into contact with Ye Yubei, while her thoughts exposed another palace affair and the princes played together in the rear garden.
• Ye Tangtang used her camera to sell portraits at school and in the palace, while Ye Mushuang tested He Wei and refused to help him.
• Empress Lu punished servants who bought Ye Tangtang’s portraits, but Ye Yubei later showered his daughter with gifts and Jun Yuyuan paid her to paint and photograph him.
• Ye Tangtang’s dinosaur pajamas frightened Shen Qingqing and the palace servants, and Empress Lu saw the resulting monster rumors as a chance to move against her.
• Consort Li’s attendants destroyed Ye Tangtang’s barbecue stall, so Ye Yubei punished them, demoted Consort Li, and protected Ye Linmo and his daughter.
• Empress Lu’s maids seized Ye Tangtang and accused her of being a demon, but she explained her pajamas and sold gadgets and makeup to the Empress Dowager before Ye Yubei arrived and confronted Empress Lu.

Ye Tangtang unsettled the court with her antics at the Plum Blossom Banquet, protected her family, and grew closer to Jun Yuyuan. The arc ended with Jun Yuyuan tending to her burned hand after she celebrated his birthday at Profound Heaven Hall.

• Ye Yubei punished Empress Lu for slandering Ye Tangtang, while Ye Tangtang gave the Empress Dowager medicine that helped her recover.
• Ye Tangtang blew up Phoenix Hall with an Explosive Pack, humiliating Empress Lu and Ye Muxue, then reopened her lamb-skewer stall and warned Ye Yubei that Consort Shu used spices to conceal her crimes.
• Ye Tangtang attended the Plum Blossom Banquet, impressed the guests with poems, and added several young men to her list of potential Princess Consorts, while Jun Yuyuan grew jealous.
• Ye Tangtang got separated from Jun Yuyuan after proposing they were a suitable match, but he found her at a street stall and escorted her back to the palace.
• Ye Tangtang continued to excel at the Academy as Ye Yubei investigated suspicious aromatics and began recalling his past with Shen Qingqing.
• Ye Muxue tried to destroy Ye Tangtang’s stall, but Ye Yubei stopped her and confined her to Phoenix Hall for a month.
• Ye Tangtang celebrated Jun Yuyuan’s birthday with cake and noodles, confronted Eunuch Liu over his treatment of Jun Yuyuan’s attendants, and Jun Yuyuan tended to her burned hand.

Ye Tangtang’s outings lead from a disastrous visit to the Lu residence to an assassination attempt, leaving her rescued by Jun Yuyuan and returned safely to the palace. As Ye Yubei investigates the attack and promotes Shen Qingqing to Consort Chen, Empress Lu and Ye Muxue decide not to target Ye Tangtang openly for now.

• Ye Tangtang took her brothers out to explore the city, spent most of her money at a brothel, and returned to the palace with a cloth tiger after helping a poor woman and her grandson.
• Ye Tangtang visited Lu Wuyou, who declared he would work hard to marry her, then secretly planted an Explosive Pack that collapsed the Lu residence’s main hall.
• Ye Muxue accused Ye Tangtang of causing the collapse, but Lu Wuyou rejected Ye Muxue as a marriage prospect and escorted Ye Tangtang toward the palace.
• Assassins ambushed Ye Tangtang on the snowy mountain road, and Jun Yuyuan rescued her before carrying her through the storm and protecting her from wolves.
• Ye Tangtang and Jun Yuyuan returned to the capital, where Ye Tangtang told Ye Yubei that Jun Yuyuan had saved her and defended him when Ye Yubei ordered him to keep away from her.
• Ye Yubei questioned Ye Tangtang about the Lu residence and the attack, while Ye Tangtang denied knowing about the collapsed hall and promised to stay in the palace.
• Ye Yubei ordered an investigation into the assassination attempt and promoted Shen Qingqing to Consort Chen, while Empress Lu and Ye Muxue agreed to avoid openly targeting Ye Tangtang.