Recaps

Xia Wanwan comforted Liu Qingqing after Zi Xing left, then revealed that Liu Wan would have a younger brother and that Auntie was expecting another child. Lady Liu arrived and confirmed she was pregnant, leaving Liu Wan stunned and uncertain about what to do.

• Xia Wanwan retrieved Zi Xing’s belongings from Daoist Qianyun, and Daoist Qianyun flew away with Zi Xing before he could finish saying goodbye.
• Xia Zhao arrived with Liu Qingqing, who stopped crying after Xia Wanwan promised that Zi Xing would marry her someday.
• Liu Wan asked Xia Wanwan how she had calmed Liu Qingqing, and Xia Wanwan revealed that Liu Wan would have a younger brother and Auntie was expecting a baby.
• Lady Liu arrived and told Liu Wan that Imperial Physician Huang had confirmed she was pregnant again.
• Liu Wan worried over what her mother would do, while Xia Wanwan watched Lady Liu’s belly expectantly.

Jiyan confronted the Patriarch of the Mystic Sect at his Divine Temple, accusing him and the Heavenly Dao of condemning Jiyan for taking revenge. The Patriarch defended his past actions, and Jiyan ended their exchange by showing him a skeleton.

• Jiyan reached the Patriarch of the Mystic Sect's Divine Temple and drove away the worshippers with demonic wind and dark clouds.
• Jiyan faced the Patriarch's divine soul and mocked him for receiving worship while Jiyan had been imprisoned for a thousand years.
• The Patriarch called Jiyan Shen Chuanlian and argued that becoming the Demon God and slaughtering innocents had violated the Heavenly Dao.
• Jiyan insisted that the people he killed were not innocent and said someone else should take over as the Heavenly Dao.
• Jiyan enlarged the skeleton he had been holding and asked the Patriarch whether he recognized it.

Jiyan used the skeleton in the Gold-and-Jade Glazed Cup to shape a new body, intending to resurrect himself and spite the Patriarch of the Mystic Sect. He sent his divine soul into the finished body, while the Patriarch tried and failed to hide his amusement.

• Jiyan claimed the skeleton had been made from the Patriarch of the Mystic Sect's ashes and began shaping a body around it with black mist.
• The Patriarch warned that the skeleton lacked spiritual power and that Jiyan would waste most of his strength, but his warnings only encouraged Jiyan.
• Jiyan finished recreating his former body and taunted the Patriarch, declaring that he would use the ashes as his fleshly body.
• The Patriarch insisted he was furious and urged Jiyan not to enter the body, while struggling to suppress a smile.
• Jiyan turned his divine soul into black mist and drifted into the body.

Jiyan’s attempt to resurrect himself ended when his brittle, lime-filled body collapsed, and the Heavenly Dao struck him with lightning as he attacked the Patriarch of the Mystic Sect. The Patriarch survived, while Gu Ming, Xia Wanwan, and Yuanbao arrived at the mountain and headed toward the Divine Temple.

• Jiyan reunited with his ashes in a reconstructed body, but his brittle bones began breaking and his body quickly collapsed.
• The Patriarch of the Mystic Sect explained that Jiyan’s ashes may have been replaced with lime, and Jiyan blamed the King of Nanmei.
• Jiyan attacked the Patriarch with baleful aura, but the Heavenly Dao’s lightning shattered his body and scattered the black aura.
• The Heavenly Dao told the Patriarch that she had acted to protect him but could not interfere further in mortal grudges, then vanished.
• Gu Ming, Xia Wanwan, and Yuanbao saw the explosion from the mountain; Gu Ming rushed to the Divine Temple while Xia Wanwan guessed Jiyan had died.

Xia Wanwan found the badly injured Jiyan after learning that Grandmaster and the Demon God had survived, and brought the boy home while arranging a truce with Gu Ming. After Jiyan recovered enough to wake, he ignored Xia Wanwan and Gu Ming forced him to answer for his disrespect.

• Xia Wanwan stopped Yuanbao from healing the unconscious boy when she could not see his karmic ties, then learned from Gu Ming that the Divine Statue was unharmed and Grandmaster was likely safe.
• Xia Wanwan promised to protect Jiyan if Gu Ming stopped threatening the Divine Temple, and Gu Ming agreed to guard it and offer incense each month.
• Xia Wanwan ordered Jing Wu to bring the injured boy home, planning to keep him close until she confirmed his identity.
• Several days later, Imperial Physician Huang told the newly awakened Jiyan that his bones had been broken and that Yuanbao's spiritual power had helped revive him.
• Jiyan ignored Xia Wanwan's question about his name, so Gu Ming dragged him from the bed, slapped his forehead, and demanded that he kneel and apologize.

Jiyan’s divine soul ended up trapped in a child’s body, and Xia Wanwan tried to find out who he was by knocking him unconscious and tickling his feet. When Liu Wan arrived, Xia Wanwan claimed the boy was an orphan while secretly planning to seal him in the World-Suppressing Tower if he proved to be Jiyan.

• Jiyan realized his body had reverted to a child, and Gu Ming picked him up before Imperial Physician Huang took him back to bed and treated him.
• Xia Wanwan asked Jiyan who he was, knocked him unconscious, and searched his divine consciousness but found only darkness.
• Xia Wanwan tied Jiyan to a stool and tickled his bare feet until he laughed and cried, but he claimed he could not remember where he came from.
• Liu Wan arrived with Wang Xia and Qing Sheng, and Xia Wanwan told her that Jiyan was an orphan while planning to seal him away if he was the Demon God.

Xia Wanwan and Jiyan competed to win Liu Wan’s sympathy, and Xia Wan later gave her mother a magical hairpin to protect her from the suspected evil spirit. Liu Wan used the hairpin to keep Xia Siheng from touching her, leaving him shocked and hurt.

• Xia Wanwan freed Jiyan, but he hid behind Liu Wan and accused her of bullying him.
• Xia Wanwan and Jiyan both cried until Liu Wan had Jiyan taken outside, then Xia Wanwan explained that she suspected he was an evil spirit.
• Liu Wan agreed to question Jiyan and accepted Xia Wanwan’s Stabby Sword, which stabbed anyone who touched her unless she touched them first.
• Liu Wan wore the hairpin to bed, and Xia Siheng was stabbed when he tried to embrace her.
• Liu Wan told Xia Siheng that their daughter’s protective charm prevented them from sharing a bed for three days, and he could not get around it.

Liu Wan persuaded the exhausted Xia Siheng to rest, while Jiyan struggled to maintain his pride as a hungry child in Xia Wanwan’s courtyard. Liu Zimu arrived to take Jiyan for new clothes, but the boy grew dizzy before he could even stand steadily.

• Liu Wan urged Xia Siheng to sleep, and he rested until dawn after she promised they would spend time with their daughter once his work eased.
• Jing Wu, Yuanbao, and Gu Ming tried to get Jiyan to reveal his name by offering him food, but he refused until Gu Ming provoked him into speaking.
• Gu Ming recognized similarities between Jiyan’s manner and his former master, the Demon God, and lifted the boy while joking about him.
• Liu Zimu arrived, helped the dizzy Jiyan sit down, and explained that he had come to get the boy new clothes because he was wearing Zi Xing’s outfit.
• Jiyan nearly fell when he tried to stand, and Jing Wu discovered Xia Wanwan had clamped her mouth onto the roasted chicken drumstick he was bringing over.

Xia Wanwan bullied the hungry Jiyan over breakfast until Zi Mu coaxed him into eating and agreeing to share his name. Liu Wan welcomed him as a good child and brought him along to stay with her family, leaving him unsettled by her kindness as she asked his name again.

• Xia Wanwan took Jiyan’s chicken drumstick and teased him until he cried, while Zi Mu brought out the meal Liu Wan had prepared for him.
• Zi Mu comforted Jiyan, served him food, and got him to agree to tell his name so they could arrange new clothes.
• After the children ate, Xia Wanwan returned to her room and secretly began cultivating.
• On the carriage ride, Zi Mu asked Liu Wan to let Jiyan stay in their courtyard, and she agreed.
• Liu Wan called Jiyan a good child, stirring memories of his mother and his past, then asked him to tell them his name.

Liu Wan took Liu Zimu and Shen Chuanlian to Jingxu Pavilion to order clothes, where she publicly called Shen Chuanlian her child. After noticing a vagrant peeping outside, she examined rare Fragrant Consort Satin and encountered Li Duoduo, who wanted the same bolt.

• Liu Wan brought Liu Zimu and Shen Chuanlian to Jingxu Pavilion and ordered new outfits for both boys.
• Liu Wan introduced Shen Chuanlian as her child, stirring warmth and surprise in him before he dismissed it as mere pretense.
• Wang Xia warned Liu Wan that a drunken vagrant had been lurking outside and peeping at them.
• Liu Wan examined Fragrant Consort Satin and learned it was made from silk spun by flower-fed silkworms.
• Li Duoduo arrived and asked Liu Wan to let her have the bolt of satin.

Li Duoduo asked Liu Wan for guidance about her loveless marriage and uncertain future, and Liu Wan's words gave her a new resolve. As Liu Wan and the children prepared to leave, Zi Mu came face to face with the stepfather who had raised him and now demanded money.

• Liu Wan let Li Duoduo have the costly fabric and learned that she was still recovering from a dangerous childbirth with Xie Jinzhao's child.
• Liu Wan ordered clothes for Shen Chuanlian and Liu Zimu, while Li Duoduo wondered whether Liu Wan's simple dress meant she was unhappy too.
• Li Duoduo asked Liu Wan to show her a path forward for her child's sake, and the two women went to speak privately.
• Afterward, Li Duoduo told her maid she no longer wanted the Fragrant Consort Satin, then ordered it sent to the Ninth Prince's Residence.
• Wang Xia shielded Liu Wan from a drunken vagrant, who recognized Zi Mu and demanded money, threatening to report him and claim him as his son again.

A Pai accused Liu Wan’s household of abducting his son, but gambling-house creditors exposed his cruelty and Liu Zimu denied being his child. Liu Wan had A Pai arrested and sent to the government office.

• Liu Wan tried to have A Pai driven away after his accusations made Liu Zimu furious, but A Pai injured himself and drew a crowd with cries of murder.
• Shen Chuanlian absorbed Liu Zimu’s vicious energy, calming him as creditors identified A Pai and revealed that he had beaten his wife to death and sold her son.
• Liu Wan demanded proof that Liu Zimu was A Pai’s child, and Liu Zimu denied the claim.
• A Pai reached greedily for Liu Wan’s silver notes, exposing his motive, and Liu Wan had him seized and taken to the government office.

Liu Wan had A Pai jailed after his crimes and debts were exposed, while promising Zi Mu he could take revenge after securing scholarly honors. Back at the residence, Zi Mu suspected Shen Chuanlian had an unusual power and asked him to join a trip to the jail to kill A Pai.

• A Pai begged Liu Wan to spare him, but the townspeople condemned him after learning he had killed his wife and sold his son; Liu Wan ordered him handed over to the authorities.
• Liu Shi imprisoned A Pai among condemned prisoners, including a man enraged by A Pai's abuse of his family.
• On the ride home, Zi Mu asked Liu Wan to leave A Pai for him to deal with, and she agreed to help after he completed his examination.
• Zi Mu suspected Shen Chuanlian had drained his hostility and questioned him about his identity and ability to kill.
• Zi Mu told Shen Chuanlian to come with him to the jail to kill A Pai.

Liu Zimu persuaded Shen Chuanlian to help secretly eliminate A Pai before the Imperial Examination, and the two slipped out of the Ninth Prince's Residence. Xia Wanwan noticed them, brought Yuanbao along, and followed them to a prison where she found Liu Zimu.

• Liu Zimu revealed that he wanted revenge on A Pai before the Imperial Examination and asked Shen Chuanlian to help remove him and conceal the secret.
• Shen Chuanlian agreed to help, fell off the couch while trying to climb down, then took Liu Zimu beyond the outer wall as an invisible shadow.
• Xia Wanwan spotted their departure, used Teleportation to reach Yuanbao, and took him with her using an Instant-Shift Talisman.
• Yuanbao woke in a dark corner beside Xia Wanwan, who pointed out that Liu Zimu had been brought to a prison by the suspicious little boy.

Liu Zimu and Shen Chuanlian confronted A Pai in prison, where Shen drew out the man's vicious rage while Liu prepared to take revenge. Hidden nearby, Xia Wanwan recognized Soul-Control Candy and blew its powder toward Shen, who noticed something sweet mixed with the rage.

• The prison guards and prisoners fell unconscious, allowing A Pai to beat the condemned men who had attacked him.
• Liu Zimu and Shen Chuanlian appeared in A Pai's cell, and A Pai first mistook them for rescuers before realizing they had come to kill him.
• Shen Chuanlian provoked A Pai until he attacked Liu Zimu with a table, then bound him with black baleful aura and absorbed his rage.
• Xia Wanwan and Yuanbao watched from the shadows, and Xia Wanwan found Soul-Control Candy in her Cosmic Bag.
• Xia Wanwan crumbled the candy and blew its powder toward Shen Chuanlian, who sensed a sweet taste mixed into A Pai's vicious rage.

Liu Zimu took revenge on A Pai for his birth mother's death, then Shen Chuanlian erased the evidence. Outside the jail, Liu Wan waited to learn whether Zi Mu had cleaned up every trace.

• Liu Zimu told A Pai that A Pai and his mother had drugged and violated Zi Mu's birth mother to seize her fifty taels of silver.
• A Pai admitted that he had beaten Zi Mu's birth mother to death and sold Zi Mu, while Zi Mu revealed he had recovered the silver note from beneath A Pai's bed.
• Liu Zimu killed A Pai, and Shen Chuanlian destroyed A Pai's soul.
• Liu Zimu's hatred faded, but Shen Chuanlian urged him to recover and remove all traces of the killing.
• Shen Chuanlian crushed A Pai's corpse into mist as Xia Wanwan and Yuanbao followed them out of the jail.
• Liu Shi emerged from the jail to Liu Wan, who asked whether Zi Mu had cleaned up every trace.

Liu Zimu reunited with Xia Wanwan after she learned of his prison revenge scheme, while Yuanbao confronted Shen Chuanlian, whose true identity was Jiyan. Xia Wanwan used the Soul-Control Technique to stop Jiyan, but Yuanbao’s attack accidentally hit Gu Ming, who then prepared to punish Jiyan.

• Liu Wan left Liu Shi to cover up the prisoner’s disappearance and returned to the Ninth Prince’s Residence.
• Liu Zimu feared Xia Wanwan would reject him after seeing his scheming, but she asked him to hold her and reassured him.
• Yuanbao accused Shen Chuanlian of being an evil spirit, and Xia Wanwan exposed him as Jiyan.
• Jiyan tried to probe Xia Wanwan’s memories, so Yuanbao fought him while Liu Zimu apologized to his sister.
• Xia Wanwan activated the Soul-Control Technique and forced Jiyan to cling to Yuanbao’s leg.
• Yuanbao’s missed attack blackened Gu Ming’s face, and Gu Ming lifted Jiyan away, declaring he would teach him a lesson.

Gu Ming found Shen Chuanlian, still in a child’s body, and mistook him for an evil spirit before realizing he was his long-awaited master, Jiyan. After Shen Chuanlian beat Gu Ming, Xia Wanwan used her Soul-Control Technique to make the Demon God sit and talk with them.

• Gu Ming slapped Shen Chuanlian for speaking coldly, then asked Xia Wanwan and Yuanbao if they had seen Jiyan.
• Shen Chuanlian revealed himself, but Gu Ming mistook him for an evil spirit possessing a child and slapped him before recognizing his master.
• Gu Ming begged Shen Chuanlian to stop beating him, and Shen Chuanlian threatened to destroy his ugly new body.
• Xia Wanwan stopped Shen Chuanlian from attacking Gu Ming, then used her Soul-Control Technique to make Shen Chuanlian sit across from her.
• Shen Chuanlian realized Xia Wanwan had controlled him and angrily lamented how badly his resurrection was going.

Xia Wanwan learned how Shen Chuanlian had revived as a child and tried to take him to the World-Suppressing Tower, but Gu Ming defended him from Yuanbao. As the two fought, Shen Chuanlian revealed that he wanted revenge on the Patriarch of the Mystic Sect for sealing him away.

• Shen Chuanlian explained that the Patriarch of the Mystic Sect had replaced his ashes with lime, causing his revival to leave him trapped in a child's body.
• Xia Wanwan offered Shen Chuanlian candy and tried to take him to the World-Suppressing Tower, but Gu Ming stopped Yuanbao from carrying him away.
• Gu Ming argued that Shen Chuanlian had not harmed anyone since his revival and challenged Yuanbao's assumption that demons were evil.
• Yuanbao and Gu Ming fought after Gu Ming refused to step aside, and Gu Ming admitted that he had stayed with Yuanbao's group because he genuinely liked them.
• Xia Wanwan asked Shen Chuanlian about his goal, and he said he wanted revenge on the Patriarch of the Mystic Sect for sealing him away.

Shen Chuanlian explained his revenge and his belief that heaven’s decree would prevent his death, but Xia Wanwan attacked him anyway. Xi Cha appeared to protect his master, only to be met with Xia Wanwan’s strength and Gu Ming’s teasing.

• Shen Chuanlian told Xia Wanwan he planned to resurrect the person who sealed him and make him suffer the same isolation he endured in the World-Suppressing Tower.
• Yuanbao defeated Gu Ming, and Shen Chuanlian claimed heaven’s decree would keep him from dying.
• Yuanbao’s Returning Blade stopped inches from Shen Chuanlian’s neck when Xi Cha’s baleful aura caught it.
• Xia Wanwan knocked the blade and baleful aura down, prompting Xi Cha to manifest and identify himself as Shen Chuanlian’s Right Guardian.
• Xia Wanwan struck Shen Chuanlian on the head with her iron shovel and scattered Xi Cha’s counterattack.
• Gu Ming suggested Xi Cha call Xia Wanwan Sister, but Xi Cha angrily refused.

Xia Wanwan subdued Shen Chuanlian and captured Xi Cha's divine soul, promising to take them to the World-Suppressing Tower after the Eastern Lin welcome banquet. When Liu Wan arrived, Shen Chuanlian surprised everyone by asking her for a Lotus Knot cord instead of using her as leverage.

• Xia Wanwan overwhelmed Xi Cha with her Little Iron Shovel and warned Shen Chuanlian that she could destroy his Guardian's divine soul.
• Gu Ming urged Shen Chuanlian to escape and abandon Xi Cha, but Shen Chuanlian refused to leave either Guardian behind.
• Xia Wanwan drew Xi Cha's divine soul into her Gourd and said she would take Shen Chuanlian to the World-Suppressing Tower after the Eastern Lin welcome banquet.
• Liu Wan arrived with Qing Sheng and Wang Xia, and Liu Zimu tried to escort her away from danger.
• Shen Chuanlian asked Liu Wan for a Lotus Knot cord like the one on Liu Zimu's jade pendant, then left without threatening her.
• Xia Wanwan warned Liu Wan to avoid Shen Chuanlian and gave Liu Zimu a protective talisman, while Liu Zimu sensed Shen Chuanlian would not harm their mother.

Xia Wanwan joined the Imperial House to prepare for the East Lin audience and learned that Princess Liuli might challenge Great Xia with her talents. That night, a woman secretly carried Wanwan away and tossed her into a pit, where Wanwan recognized the woman’s voice and asked where her silly son had gone.

• Xia Wanwan and her parents met with the Imperial House to discuss how to handle the Ruler of Eastern Lin’s visit.
• The Empress Dowager said Princess Liuli was renowned for composing poems and planned to find a girl to compete with her.
• Xia Siheng arranged for his family to stay in the palace, and the Empress Dowager kept Xia Wanwan with her overnight.
• A black-clad woman crept into the Empress Dowager’s chambers and carried the awake Xia Wanwan away while the Empress Dowager and Nanny Wei watched without intervening.
• The woman’s companions threw Xia Wanwan into a pit and prepared to bury her, but the woman climbed in too, saying that being buried with Wanwan would make her younger.
• Xia Wanwan realized the woman did not intend to harm her and asked where the woman’s silly son had gone.

Consort Xian asked Xia Wanwan to help her become young so she could pursue the Ruler of Eastern Lin, but Xia Wanwan revealed that he loved a male Hidden Guard named Wushuang. The Empress Dowager overheard their plans and, instead of stopping Consort Xian, offered to help her impersonate Wushuang and pursue the Ruler of Eastern Lin.

• Consort Xian told Xia Wanwan she wanted to become young and travel to East Lin to compete with Consort Jing and the Sovereign's wife for the Ruler of Eastern Lin.
• Xia Wanwan warned Consort Xian that the Ruler of Eastern Lin loved men and told her about his past lover, Wushuang, a male Hidden Guard who died alongside Duke Yan's father.
• Consort Xian decided she could win the Ruler of Eastern Lin by resembling Wushuang and asked Xia Wanwan to alter her appearance.
• The Empress Dowager caught Xia Wanwan and Consort Xian discussing their plan, and Consort Xian tried to take responsibility while insisting Xia Wanwan was innocent.
• The Empress Dowager encouraged Consort Xian to pursue the Ruler of Eastern Lin and revealed that she had a portrait of Wushuang.

As the palace prepared for the Ruler of Eastern Lin’s birthday visit, Consort Xian was absent, and the Empress Dowager and empress concealed the reason. The Eastern Lin delegation arrived with a breach of protocol that insulted the Great Xia Dynasty, leaving the empress to answer with a pointed excuse.

• The Empress Dowager told Xia Wanwan that Consort Xian wanted freedom, then took Xia Wanwan and Consort Xian to see Wushuang’s portrait, which shocked them both.
• At the emperor’s birthday banquet, the empress followed the Empress Dowager’s signal and gave Consort Xian’s seat to Consort Si.
• Xia Wanwan tried to grab the dishes until Xia Siheng gave her a pastry he had taken from his mother.
• The Ruler of Eastern Lin’s party delayed entering after being summoned twice, and Princess Liuli walked into the hall ahead of him.
• The emperor ordered the announcing eunuch punished, but Princess Liuli objected, and the empress claimed the eunuch had failed to announce the guests properly.

At the palace reception, Xia Wanwan exposed East Lin's deliberate refusal to answer the summons, forcing the delegation to take their seats. Consort Jing then arranged a poetry contest between Princess Liuli and Qian Shiyue, which ended with Liuli presenting a startling verse.

• Xia Wanwan mocked East Lin for pretending not to hear the palace attendant, and Princess Liuli angrily protested.
• The Ruler of Eastern Lin claimed he had been considering how to present East Lin's supreme treasure, and the Emperor ordered seats prepared for the delegation.
• Princess Liuli resented Consort Jing and the Imperial Prince, while Consort Jing privately anticipated her son's future power through the Qilin.
• Consort Jing challenged Great Xia to find a young lady who could rival Princess Liuli in poetry, and Qian Zhibing put forward his daughter Qian Shiyue.
• Princess Liuli proposed a poetry contest and wrote a verse about the Yellow River rushing toward the sea.