Recaps

Liu Wan took control of the Ninth Prince’s Residence and uncovered Ruyun’s role in the poisoning and her ties to East Lin. As Xia Siheng and Xia Wanwan prepared to investigate a wider spy plot, Liu Wan purged Ruyun’s loyalists and found evidence of embezzlement.

• Liu Wan agreed to enter Zi Mu and Zi Xing into the Liu Family's Clan Genealogy, then investigated the household after Qing Sheng reported that her parents had been mistreated.
• Jing Er revealed Ruyun’s connection to Xia Siheng’s birth mother, and Liu Wan asserted her authority over the manor while Xia Siheng punished Steward Deng and took the Jade Seal from Ruyun.
• At the palace, Yuanbao warned that evil spirits threatened Xia Qianlin, while Consort Xian’s suspected assassination attempt led the Empress Dowager to order an investigation.
• Daoist Qianyun identified Ruyun as an East Lin spy connected to Xia Siheng’s mother’s death, and Xia Wanwan and Xia Siheng followed Ruyun to a meeting with Wu Bi.
• Ruyun proposed using East Lin’s secret potion to become pregnant with Xia Siheng’s child, while Wu Bi discussed a plot involving the Gold-and-Jade Glazed Cup, and Xia Siheng secretly listened and delayed acting until the consecration ceremony.
• Liu Wan exposed Ruyun and Lingling’s role in poisoning Princess Ximing, protected A Niu’s family, and ordered the execution of Lingling and Ruyun’s ringleaders.
• Liu Wan gave abused servants a chance to leave, secretly spared A Niu and sent him away with his family, then found evidence in the account books that Ruyun had embezzled manor funds.

Liu Wan and Xia Wanwan faced Gu Ming’s attack at the Divine Temple while Xia Siheng confronted the enemies behind his mother’s death. After Ruyun escaped into East Lin’s hands, Xia Siheng told Xia Wanwan that Duke Yan was an East Lin spy, setting their next conflict in motion.

• The Empress Dowager gave Xia Siheng evidence of Duke Yan’s ties to East Lin and asked him to handle the matter while preserving the old duke’s reputation, and Xia Wanwan agreed to help.
• At the Divine Temple, the Grandmaster revealed why Xia Wanwan had been brought to the past, then spent his remaining power answering worshippers’ prayers before Xia Siheng took Xia Wanwan away with the Eldest Princess’s procession.
• Gu Ming attacked the Divine Temple and urged the crowd to turn against the emperor, but Xie Jin'an rallied the people and Liu Wan used the gourd to absorb Gu Ming and defeat him.
• Xia Siheng and the Eldest Princess drew Southern Mei death warriors and East Lin assassins into fighting each other, while Xia Wanwan called down lightning and destroyed the attackers.
• Xia Siheng killed Aye and comforted Xia Wanwan over the bodies, while Liu Wan uncovered East Lin’s spy network and helped foil Ruyun’s plan to drug the Prince.
• Ruyun was exposed and captured, then escaped with an East Lin envoy by claiming to carry Xia Siheng’s divine child, while Consort Jing planned to take the fetus for herself.
• The Empress Dowager told Chunhua that Master Youzheng’s rabbit Extremely had been spying on Ruyun’s group, while Xia Siheng returned to the manor and watched Xia Wanwan play with the children.
• Xia Siheng told Xia Wanwan that Duke Yan was an East Lin spy whose removal would clear opposition to her new law, and Xia Wanwan threatened to strike him with lightning.

Xia Wanwan traveled to Hezhou to deal with the Abandoned Infant Pagoda and uncover the Qiao family’s crimes against Zhong Youling. After exposing their poisoning scheme, she injured Qiao Tianci and faced Old Master Qiao’s threat to report her.

• Xia Wanwan learned from Gu Ming that the Demon God’s Compass was at the Abandoned Infant Pagoda, and Yuanbao went there to retrieve it while agreeing to help the trapped spirits reincarnate.
• Yuanbao helped Ruyun and Ru Bin when assassins pursued them, then returned with Gu Ming as Xia Wanwan prepared to travel to Hezhou.
• Xia Wanwan confronted Hezhou’s townspeople about the abandoned baby girls and joined Zhong Youyan in seeking to destroy the pagoda, while Xia Siheng and Liu Wan watched over her.
• Xia Wanwan discovered that the Qiao elders mistreated Zhong Youling and that her unborn child had been poisoned, then warned Qiao Zhishu that saving his wife could reveal the truth about his birth.
• Old Master Qiao plotted to poison Xia Wanwan and blame her for Zhong Youling’s death, but Qiao Zhishu and Yuanbao uncovered evidence in the flower soil and medicine residue.
• Xia Wanwan ate the drugged pig’s trotter while feigning sleep, and Zhong Youyan warned Zhong Youling not to drink the pregnancy medicine as Yuanbao investigated the flower soil.
• Yuanbao stopped Madam Qiao from destroying the flowerpot, while Jing Wu and Gu Ming seized the kitchen hand and gathered evidence against the Qiao household.
• Xia Wanwan confronted Qiao Tianci, cut off his uninjured leg after he dismissed his child brides’ lives, and heard Old Master Qiao threaten to report her to the authorities.

Xia Wanwan exposed the Qiao family’s crimes, rescued Zhong Youling and her child, and dismantled the Abandoned Infant Pagoda before confronting Hezhou’s customs and the Heavenly Dao. The group left Hezhou with new purpose, while Duke Yan summoned Gu Ming’s divine soul and set him against Xia Wanwan.

• Xia Wanwan and Qiao Zhishu brought the Qiao family’s crimes to court, where witnesses exposed the poisoning, child-bride abuse, and Old Master Qiao’s true parentage with Steward Qiao.
• After Zhong Youling went into dangerous labor, Xia Wanwan saved her and her baby, while Qiao Zhishu severed ties with his parents and Old Master Qiao, Madam Qiao, and Steward Qiao died.
• Xia Wanwan dismantled the Soul-Locking Formation in the Abandoned Infant Pagoda and sent the infant souls toward reincarnation, despite the crowd resisting its destruction.
• Duke Yan turned Hezhou’s people against Xia Wanwan, but she summoned the Heavenly Dao, which revealed itself as female and confronted the crowd over its treatment of girls.
• The Heavenly Dao erased the people’s memories of the confrontation and declared that no more girls would be born in Hezhou, while Duke Yan promised to fund a replacement pagoda.
• At the Self-Rescue Home, Zhong Youyan revealed that she was a transmigrator, and she and Xia Wanwan agreed to work toward women’s freedom and equality in Great Xia.
• Duke Yan asked Daoist Huiyue to summon Gu Ming’s divine soul, and Gu Ming was pulled away from Xia Wanwan before Duke Yan ordered him to deal with her.