Recaps

Xia Wanwan and her allies pursued the evil spirit connected to Xie Jinqian while confronting Li Kengqiang’s violence and the Li family’s attempts to hide it. The arc ended with Li Qian revealing the victims Li Kengqiang had harmed, as a vengeful ghost took over his body.

• Xie Jinqian tried to preserve the Xie bloodline, then brought Liu Wan a pair of shoes and left after she rejected his gift and affirmed her engagement to Xia Siheng.
• Evil spirits attacked Xia Siheng, but Xia Wanwan fought them off, and Yuanbao swallowed one before transforming into a human.
• Xia Wanwan gave Auntie Wang a protective bell, then Jing Wu and Yuanbao investigated the Xie Residence for the evil-spirit culprit and identified Xie Jinqian as a suspect.
• Madam Li brought Li Kengqiang to the Liu Residence to accuse the family, but Imperial Physician Huang exposed his violent behavior and Madam Li beat him at Xia Wanwan’s insistence.
• Xia Wanwan and Liu Wan made offerings for a dead girl, while Li Qian agreed to marry for her family’s sake if her maid Ning’er could accompany her.
• Yuanbao returned with a serious injury after fighting a powerful cultivator, and Xia Wanwan healed him and Jing Wu before going to the Vice Minister’s Residence to confront Li Kengqiang.
• Li Qian revealed that she had sealed Li Kengqiang inside a hidden passage, and Xia Wanwan opened it and helped the servants pull him out alive.
• Li Kengqiang became an evil ghost and attacked his family, while Li Qian revealed the spirits of his victims and Xia Wanwan identified the ghost possessing him.

Xia Wanwan helped expose the Tian Family’s abuse of Li Qian, then fought the evil spirits haunting Attendant Li’s family and uncovered a mysterious seal inside Li Shuqi. The arc left Xia Wanwan preparing a law to protect girls while discovering a similar seal in Crown Prince Xia Qianlin and sensing trouble between his parents.

• Xie Jinqian questioned Xia Wanwan about her birth father, but she identified Xia Qianhui as her father and later pointed out Xie Jin'an as another possible father.
• At the Liu Residence, Yuanbao exposed Li Qian’s false marriage prospects, and Li Qian revealed that Tian had protected Tian Peng after he abused her as a child.
• Li Qian admitted arranging Ning’er’s revenge against Tian Peng, and Master Yuantong used a truth-telling talisman to make Tian Peng confess his crimes before Lord Qin sentenced him.
• Xia Wanwan and Yuanbao helped bring about Tian Peng’s immediate execution, but evil spirits from the Abandoned Infant Pagoda attacked and targeted Li Shuqi until Xia Wanwan crushed their combined form.
• Xia Wanwan found a sealed stone inside Li Shuqi’s sea of consciousness, while Master Yuantong summoned Li Kengqiang’s original soul and told Madam Li to atone before it could reincarnate.
• Xia Siheng and Xia Wanwan sought support for a law to protect girls, and the emperor agreed to back their proposal.
• Xia Wanwan entered Xia Qianlin’s sea of consciousness and found a sealed golden sword, then learned his parents’ relationship faced a tribulation when a eunuch reported that they were fighting.

Xia Wanwan and Xia Siheng exposed the Gu Worm in the emperor and foiled Li Siqin’s attempt to seize Qingli City. Xie Jinqian then lured Xia Siheng into a new scheme, leaving Liu Wan’s marriage and Xia Siheng’s safety at risk.

• The Empress Dowager punished Noble Lady Snow, while Xia Siheng and Liu Wan uncovered signs that a Gu Worm was influencing the emperor and made plans to investigate it.
• Xie Jinqian told Liu Wan that Xia Wanwan was Xia Siheng’s daughter and urged Liu Wan to leave Xia Siheng, but she refused and accepted his bet that Xia Siheng would break her heart.
• Xia Wanwan used the Spirit Needle to seal the Female Gu in the emperor’s heart, and the group discovered that Noble Lady Snow was the Male Gu behind the emperor’s affliction.
• Xia Wanwan defeated Noble Lady Snow, while the Empress Dowager and Xia Siheng exposed a lookalike’s plot to force the emperor to cede Qingli City to Southern Mei.
• Li Siqin revealed herself as the Li Family’s Saintess and threatened the imperial court, but Yuanbao defeated her and Xia Siheng left to find the intercepted Daoist Qianyun and Uncle-Master Shunfeng.
• Xie Jinqian arranged an ambush for Xia Siheng and gave him an elixir that he claimed would weaken his internal energy and reason, while Commandery Princess Yan'er went to pursue her desire to marry him.
• Xie Jinqian ordered Xia Siheng taken to a private room and planned to bring Liu Wan there, then visited a brothel where Jing Feng arranged for male courtesans to attract her.

After Xie Jinqian died protecting Liu Wan, the survivors brought his last wishes to completion and the threats from Commandery Princess Yan'er and Li Siqin ended. Liu Wan and Xia Siheng married, reunited their family, and began planning a future with Xia Wanwan and the boys.

• Xia Siheng and Liu Wan survived the fall from the cliff with Jing Er and Xie Jinqian, but Xie Jinqian died shielding Liu Wan from an evil spirit and entrusted her with his final wishes.
• Lie Ming learned that A Qi had killed Xie Jinqian, severed ties with him, and gathered both disciples’ souls after A Qi died by suicide.
• The Eldest Princess killed Commandery Princess Yan'er after Yan'er attacked her, and Li Siqin killed herself rather than accept the Eldest Princess’s offer to save her.
• Xie Jin'an watched Liu Wan prepare to marry Xia Siheng, while Liu Wan wore the Eastern Pearl shoes he had sent her.
• Xia Siheng overcame the Liu Family’s wedding challenges, carried Liu Wan to the Ninth Prince's Residence, and married her as Xie Jin'an watched from outside.
• Xia Wanwan invited Xie Jin'an to the wedding feast and divined that his unborn child was a girl, but told Zi Mu and Zi Xing that Xie Jin'an had little time left to live.
• Xia Wanwan woke from a nightmare fearing her parents would abandon her, and Liu Wan and Xia Siheng reassured her that they were a family and would protect her.
• After the wedding, Xia Siheng and Liu Wan resumed their wedding night, while Zi Mu and Zi Xing asked to take Liu Wan’s surname so they could pursue official careers on their own merits.