Recaps

Liu Wan protects Xia Wanwan and challenges the Marquis’s Residence as its schemes against her unravel. Her imperial standing rises while the household turns against her, and Liu Shi is sent to lead flood relief in Anyuan County.

• Liu Wan stopped the matron and maid from switching her newborn daughter for Xie Huaishan, then refused the old madam’s demand to raise the boy as her own.
• At Wanwan’s one-month banquet, Liu Wan exposed the old madam’s cheap gift and thwarted the scheme involving Xu Rourou and the Fifth Princess, who found the emperor’s Jade Bead Strand in Huai Shan’s swaddling.
• The emperor confined the old madam, docked Xie Jin'an’s salary, and named Liu Wan a Third-Rank Imperial Lady after learning of the household’s plots against the Fifth Princess.
• The Empress Dowager welcomed Liu Wan and Wanwan at the palace, while Wanwan’s antics won her affection and the Phoenix Hairpin.
• After Xie Jin'an and Madam Li returned from Golden Mountain Temple with Xu Xinbo, lightning wrecked their carriage, and Qing Da mistakenly reported the blackened family members as impostors.
• Liu Wan defended Qing Da, took charge of the congee-shed donations, and clashed with Madam Li over the household’s finances and authority.
• Liu Wan hired Qing Sheng after she proved her strength, while Xie Jin'an volunteered for flood relief and tried to reconcile with Xu Rourou.
• Master Yuantong told the emperor that the Coal Mine Spirits should be sought to aid flood victims, but Minister Liu arranged for Liu Shi to lead the mission, and the emperor awarded Liu Wan’s family honors.

Liu Wan protected her household through scandals and plots, while Xia Wanwan’s uncanny thoughts drew the emperor and Xia Siheng into palace troubles. After returning from the wedding, Liu Wan uncovered a spy in her family and went back to the Marquis’s Residence, where servants faced another crisis.

• Liu Wan exposed Xie Zixing’s drugging and helped him commit to studying and training, while Qing Da rescued Qing Sheng from Xie Jinzhao’s attempted assault.
• Xie Jinqiu’s affair with Xu Rourou sparked a scandal with the Zhong Family, and Xie Jinzhao was arrested after Qing Da helped expose his actions.
• The Empress Dowager decided to make Xia Wanwan a princess, and the emperor mistakenly ordered himself and the child buried in coffins until Xia Siheng intervened.
• Xia Siheng and Xia Wanwan confronted the ghost haunting Consort Ling, learned Xiao Ju sought revenge for Consort Man, and secured the emperor’s agreement to make Xia Wanwan a princess.
• Liu Wan attended the Fifth Princess’s wedding and returned to the Liu Residence, where Xia Wanwan identified Xu Bo as a dangerous spy targeting Uncle Li.
• Xu Bo tried to poison Uncle Li, but Uncle Li forced him to eat the food, and Liu Wan had Xu Bo arrested.
• Liu Shi returned from disaster relief hoping to marry Li Duoduo, but Xia Wanwan’s thoughts revealed Li Duoduo’s secret ties to Third Uncle, so Liu Wan went to investigate.
• At the Marquis’s Residence, Qing Da told Liu Wan that the household could not pay its servants and Fourth Master was about to have several of them beaten to death.

Liu Wan exposed the household’s financial abuses and refused to surrender her Death-Exemption Token, while Zhong Youyan took control of the residence’s affairs. Xia Wanwan was summoned to the palace as a noble infant, where Xie Huaishan’s soul attacked Xia Qianlin and she forced it to return his Dragon Qi.

• Liu Wan confronted Xie Jinqiu over unpaid servants’ wages, and Uncle Li revealed Xu Bo’s attempted poisoning and the poison found in his room.
• Liu Wan and her allies exposed Xie Jinzhao’s affair with Li Duoduo, ending Liu Shi’s engagement to Li Duoduo and prompting Zhong Youyan to arrange their marriage.
• Madam Li learned the residence was 180,000 taels in debt, while Liu Wan refused to resume managing its affairs or lend Xu Rourou the Death-Exemption Token.
• Zhong Youyan secured financial support from her family and took charge of the household, while Liu Wan warned her that Xie Jinqiu might be poisoning her.
• The imperial decree named Xie Jin'an the Dynasty’s Auspicious Mascot, and Xia Qianlin summoned Liu Wan and Xia Wanwan to the palace as the noble infant.
• Zhong Youyan overheard Xu Rourou tell her brother that Xie Huaishan was her son, as servants also mentioned an identity token and the arrival of the Nanmei Kingdom Historian.
• Consort Ling welcomed Liu Wan and Xia Wanwan to a palace family meal, and Xia Wanwan later slipped into Splendid Palace to reach its Coral Tree.
• Xie Huaishan sent his soul to attack Xia Qianlin and drain his Dragon Qi, but Xia Wanwan weakened the soul with an Exorcism Talisman and made it return the Dragon Qi.

Liu Wan fought to protect Xia Wanwan and secure a divorce from Xie Jin'an as the Nanmei delegation arrived and the Eldest Princess manipulated Xu Rourou. The Jing'an Marquis Manor lost its title, while Xu Rourou remained in the Eldest Princess’s power and Xie Jin'an sought to take her home.

• Xia Qianlin asked to marry Xia Wanwan, while the emperor ordered her origins kept secret after learning she had saved the Crown Prince.
• Liu Wan denied giving Xu Rourou the Death-Exemption Token, and the emperor punished the Xie household and stripped Liu Wan of her title and token.
• Xu Rourou’s family sought Liu Wan’s help, while a jade pendant linked Xu Rourou to the Nanmei Imperial House and revealed her mother’s tragic past.
• Xia Wanwan opened the Glazed Glass Lamp, met her former master’s spirit, and received blessings for Great Xia after the Eldest Princess demanded Qingli City.
• The Eldest Princess rescued Xu Rourou from prison, but Liu Wan demanded a divorce from Xie Jin'an and left the Marquis Manor without an agreement.
• Madam Li’s attempt to poison Liu Wan failed when Xia Wanwan’s talisman destroyed the medicine, and Zhong Youyan framed Madam Li for stealing herbs until the authorities took her away.
• The Eldest Princess revealed Xu Rourou was not her daughter and imprisoned her, while the emperor stripped the Jing'an Marquis Manor of its noble title and sent the Old Madam to the embassy.
• Xie Jin'an visited the embassy to retrieve the Old Madam and Xu Rourou, while Daoist Wumo suspected Xie Huaishan was the Spirit Child and Xu Rourou begged Xie Jin'an to take her home.