Recaps

Jiang Yingcheng uncovered the Wei Clan’s betrayal and tried unsuccessfully to accompany Jiang Yanchuan to Beiming. While Jiang Tinghuai kept her occupied in the capital, she exposed palace intrigues and officials’ crimes, leaving the court fearing a sweeping investigation.

• Jiang Yingcheng forced the Wei Clan bandits to write a threatening letter, but Jiang Yanchuan found her and took her back to Changning Palace.
• Jiang Yingcheng’s thoughts exposed the betrayal that had ruined the Wei Clan, and Wei Yuan sent a secret letter toward Beiming before someone intercepted his pigeon.
• Jiang Yingcheng revealed Beiming’s concealed plague and slaughtered soldiers, prompting Wei Jiany un and Wei Xing to prepare to help attack Beiming.
• Jiang Yanchuan discovered Jiang Yingcheng hiding among expedition supplies and refused to take her, but accepted her lifesaving items before departing.
• Jiang Tinghuai thwarted Jiang Yingcheng’s next escape attempt and took her to the Lantern Festival, where Fang Yiwan unsuccessfully sought his help to see Lin Jinshu.
• Jiang Yingcheng and Jiang Tinghuai learned that Yuexi and Prince Jingyuan had planned romantic rumors to prevent a marriage alliance with Qiguang.
• Jiang Tinghuai investigated the leak of their festival plans, while Fang Yiwan arranged a secret meeting with a prince and suspicious figures disappeared near Prince Xin’s secret base.
• Jiang Yingcheng admitted spreading supernatural rumors about Tan Wenhan and exposed crimes by Zhao Liang, Chen Shimao, and other officials, leaving the court fearing wider punishment.

Jiang Yingcheng fled the palace with Lin Jinshu as the child-switch accusation and rival princes’ schemes drove a dangerous pursuit. After reuniting with Jiang Yanchuan near the Beiming Border, she learned that her warning had helped avert a military trap, and the group prepared to leave for Peach Spring.

• Fang Yiwan accused Consort Wan of switching babies, but Jiang Tinghuai found that the letter she presented did not match Consort Wan’s handwriting.
• Jiang Yingcheng escaped with Fang Siwan and Lin Jinshu, but masked fighters captured them after Zhong Chengwang and Yu Xingmian were injured defending them.
• Jiang Yi'an kept Jiang Yingcheng and Lin Jinshu at his residence, where they repeatedly tried to flee and Jiang Yingcheng revealed information about Consort Shu’s letter and the Cold Palace passage.
• Jiang Yingcheng exposed Prince Xin’s connection to Tang Chuqing and the fake edict, then Liaochen rescued her and Lin Jinshu amid a battle at the Prince’s Residence.
• Jiang Yingcheng reunited with Fang Siwan and traveled with Liaochen’s group toward the Beiming Border, while Zhong Chengwang set out to warn the army.
• After learning Jiang Yanchuan was missing, Jiang Yingcheng left alone to find him and met him on a mountain path.
• Jiang Yingcheng cared for the injured Jiang Yanchuan with help from Chi Jingyang, while Jiang Yanchuan recognized Chi Jingyang and waited for him to reveal himself.
• Liaochen and Gao Siyuan told Jiang Yanchuan that Jiang Yingcheng’s warning had helped General Kan avoid Beiming’s plague trap, and Jiang Yanchuan ordered the group to rest before heading to Peach Spring.

Jiang Yanchuan brought Chi Jingyang and the people of Spring Renewal Valley out of seclusion and persuaded them to join Great Rui. After Jiang Yingcheng learned Jiang Yanchuan still considered her his daughter, the army advanced into Beiming, where the king fled and Guan Zhili surrendered Jiayu City.

• Jiang Yanchuan and his companions entered Spring Renewal Valley, where Chi Jingyang revealed the village and helped save the ailing Lu Jingchu with Jiang Yingcheng’s snow-congealing grass.
• Jiang Yanchuan persuaded Liang Qilüe, Chang Yuan, Yu Fan, and other valley residents to leave seclusion and join Great Rui, while Jiang Yingcheng distributed medicine and gifts.
• Jiang Yanchuan told Jiang Yingcheng that he loved her despite her being a fake princess, and he reassured her that he would always be her father.
• Jiang Yanchuan reunited Liang Qilüe with the Wei Clan at the military camp and ordered preparations for the march on Danyang City.
• Jiang Yanchuan disappeared after Beiming trapped the vanguard, and Jiang Yingcheng sneaked out of camp to search for him before he found her and brought her back.
• Wang Hui leaked news of Jiang Yanchuan’s disappearance, but Jiang Yanchuan regrouped his forces and ordered the army to march toward Beiming’s capital.
• A young Beiming prince surrendered Jiayu City to Jiang Yanchuan, while Jiang Yingcheng discovered the fleeing king’s direction and hidden treasures.
• Jiang Yanchuan caught Jiang Yingcheng at the city gates, sent her map of the treasure locations to General Kan, and let her meet the kneeling prince, Guan Zhili.

Jiang Yingcheng helped Jiang Yanchuan win over Beiming’s people and brought Guan Zhili into their family, then stumbled into an orphanage trafficking scheme while chasing candy and treasure. After she and the children fought the traffickers with Liaochen’s help, Jiang Yanchuan prepared to return to Great Rui with the rescued children.

• Jiang Yingcheng helped commoners in Jiayu City reveal hidden stores, then led Guan Zhili through Beiming Palace and used a mock court to punish servants who had bullied him.
• Jiang Yingcheng exposed Guan Xiqiao’s abuse and bribery, found buried treasure with Guan Zhili, and Jiang Yanchuan agreed to take him home.
• After Jiang Yingcheng burned her arm while preparing a surprise for her purse, she devised several schemes to get more candy and eventually led her companions into a hidden passage.
• Jiang Yingcheng found homeless children being abused by supposed benefactors, then entered their orphanage with Guan Zhili and learned the children suspected the operators of trafficking people.
• Jiang Yingcheng and the children drugged the traffickers’ food, but Jiang San attacked them after the men collapsed and injured Guan Zhili before Liaochen intervened.
• Liaochen defeated the attackers with Jiang Yingcheng’s poisoned needles while the children used hidden weapons to help subdue the traffickers.
• Jiang Yanchuan found Jiang Yingcheng and the children, learned she intended to repeat her dangerous adventure, and arranged for the rescued children to return to Great Rui with them.