Recaps

Jiang Chen tried to build favor with Jiang Yunbing by advising her on cultivating spirit herbs, while Jiang Yantian’s arrival shifted her attention to him. The chapter left Jiang Chen asking Jiang Yunbing to cook for him too, determined to compete with Jiang Yantian for her affection.

• Jiang Chen retrieved the Spirit-Charging Cauldron from the stone chamber and concealed the dry well behind him.
• Jiang Yunbing found Jiang Chen tending to her spirit herbs, and he gave her advice before accepting the spirit liquid to work on them himself.
• Jiang Yantian arrived, making Jiang Yunbing blush as she remembered their intimate encounter that morning.
• Jiang Yantian linked arms with Jiang Yunbing and asked her to cook for him, and she warmly agreed.
• Jiang Chen asked Jiang Yunbing to make him a portion too, hoping to provoke Jiang Yantian.

Jiang Yantian humiliated Jiang Chen before taking a leisurely trip to a brothel, where Nanny Gui spotted him and decided to tell Jiang Chen. Jiang Yantian remained unconcerned as he settled in to enjoy the entertainment.

• Jiang Yantian insulted Jiang Chen, splashed spirit liquid over him, and left Jiang Chen suppressing his anger to preserve his revenge plans.
• Jiang Yantian went out alone to explore the streets of the Dragon Martial Imperial Dynasty.
• Jiang Yantian entered the Encircling Splendor Pavilion and persuaded the madam to provide a lively show.
• Nanny Gui saw Jiang Yantian enter the brothel and hurried to report it to Jiang Chen.
• Jiang Yantian relaxed in a private room while courtesans played music, danced, and sang.

Jiang Chen caught Jiang Yantian leaving the Encircling Splendor Pavilion and brought witnesses and a recording stone to expose him to the family. When Jiang Yantian faced Jiang Lei and Shen Qiuye, he admitted where he had gone and claimed it had been for proper business, leaving Jiang Chen’s expected confrontation to unfold.

• Jiang Yantian enjoyed himself at the Encircling Splendor Pavilion, where he kicked away a dancer who tried to feed him.
• Jiang Chen staked out the pavilion with household servants, recorded Jiang Yantian leaving, and hurried back to the Jiang Lineage.
• Jiang Yantian sensed he was being watched but ignored Jiang Chen and spent the rest of the day enjoying himself.
• At dinner, Jiang Lei confronted Jiang Yantian about his whereabouts, and Jiang Yantian openly admitted visiting the Encircling Splendor Pavilion.
• Jiang Lei rebuked Jiang Yantian for violating the family precepts, while Shen Qiuye and Jiang Yunbing defended him; Jiang Yantian prepared to turn the accusation against Jiang Chen.

Jiang Yantian turned Jiang Chen’s accusation about visiting Huancai Pavilion into a display of filial generosity, revealing that he had gone there to meet a fifth-rank alchemist and obtain pills for the family. Jiang Chen was left looking like a malicious slanderer as Jiang Yantian announced he would accept punishment in the ancestral hall.

• Jiang Chen said he had recorded Jiang Yantian leaving Huancai Pavilion, but Jiang Yantian questioned whether Jiang Chen had deliberately waited outside to trap him.
• Jiang Yantian admitted entering Huancai Pavilion but challenged Jiang Chen to prove he had gone there for pleasure rather than another reason.
• Jiang Yantian explained that he had sought an injured fifth-rank alchemist and presented six fifth-rank Beauty Nourishing Pills and a Mirror-Breaking Pill for his family.
• Jiang Yantian offered the Beauty Nourishing Pills to Shen Qiuye and his five sisters and said the Mirror-Breaking Pill could help Jiang Lei attempt a breakthrough.
• Jiang Yantian told Jiang Chen he knew his brother resented him and promised he would not compete for the Jiang Lineage, leaving the family to view Jiang Chen as the aggressor.
• Jiang Yantian declared that he would kneel in the ancestral hall to accept punishment for violating the family teachings.

Jiang Yantian turned Jiang Chen’s accusation against him, and Jiang Chen was forced to apologize and kneel in the ancestral hall. Jiang Chen left furious and resentful, still plotting to expose Jiang Yantian and regain what he believed was his.

• Shen Qiuye, Jiang Yunbing, and Jiang Yunyu stopped Jiang Yantian from kneeling, while Jiang Lei apologized for misunderstanding him.
• Jiang Yantian blamed himself and asked his family not to blame Jiang Chen, prompting Jiang Yunbing and Jiang Yunyu to accuse Jiang Chen of deliberately targeting him.
• Jiang Lei questioned Jiang Chen about how he knew Jiang Yantian had visited Huancai Pavilion, and Jiang Chen admitted he had seen him enter.
• Jiang Lei ordered Jiang Chen to kneel in the ancestral hall, and Jiang Yunbing and Jiang Yunyu insisted he apologize to Jiang Yantian first.
• Jiang Chen apologized to Jiang Yantian, gained Jiang Yantian 20,000 Humiliation Points, and went to the ancestral hall in anger.

Jiang Yantian framed Jiang Chen for wrecking the ancestral hall and eating its offerings while Jiang Chen was unconscious. When Jiang Chen woke to the ruined hall, Jiang Lei accused him, and Jiang Chen blamed Jiang Yantian.

• Jiang Chen resolved to sever his emotional ties to the Jiang Lineage while enduring his punishment in the ancestral hall for the sake of a future opportunity.
• Jiang Yantian used Shadow Replacement Technique to sneak into the ancestral hall, knocked Jiang Chen unconscious, and staged the scene to make it look as though Jiang Chen had eaten the offerings and toppled the memorial tablets.
• After servants reported the damage, Jiang Lei and the others found Jiang Chen sprawled among the ruined offerings and memorial tablets.
• Jiang Lei slapped Jiang Chen awake, and Jiang Chen belched wine as he tried to understand what had happened.
• Jiang Chen recognized that Jiang Yantian had framed him and accused him of knocking him unconscious, darkening Jiang Lei's and Shen Qiuye's expressions.

Jiang Chen accused Jiang Yantian of destroying the ancestral hall and demanded a Heavenly Dao Blood Oath, but Jiang Yantian swore one and was cleared in everyone's eyes. Jiang Chen was blamed and humiliated again, while Jiang Yantian offered to leave the Jiang Lineage; Jiang Chen swallowed his anger and waited for a chance to retaliate.

• Jiang Chen claimed Jiang Yantian had knocked him unconscious, but Shen Qiuye and the servants pointed out that Jiang Yantian had been with them all morning.
• Jiang Lei rebuked Jiang Chen for repeatedly framing Jiang Yantian, while Jiang Yunbing and Jiang Yunyu wanted Jiang Chen expelled from the Jiang Lineage.
• Jiang Yantian defended Jiang Chen and offered to investigate the ancestral hall damage, earning the family's approval.
• Jiang Chen challenged Jiang Yantian to swear a Heavenly Dao Blood Oath, and Jiang Yantian swore that he had nothing to do with the events without suffering heavenly punishment.
• Jiang Lei asked Jiang Chen what he had to say, and the servants criticized him as Jiang Yantian offered to leave the Jiang Lineage temporarily.
• Jiang Chen received 20,000 Humiliation Points and swallowed his anger, resolving to wait for a chance to make Jiang Yantian pay.

Jiang Yunbing attacked Jiang Chen after he admitted he might have been mistaken, while Jiang Yantian calmed her and drew her away from the ancestral hall. Returning, Jiang Yantian saw Jiang Chen receiving fifty lashes and recalled the coming banquet where Jiang Chen and Marquis Yongning’s true daughter would be framed.

• Jiang Yunbing kicked Jiang Chen and tried to strike him again, but Jiang Yantian stopped her and defended him as having made an honest mistake.
• Jiang Yantian took the furious Jiang Yunbing outside, where he made a bold advance; after she pushed him away and warned him about their parents, he feigned hurt until she led him into the rockery.
• Jiang Yantian and Jiang Yunbing returned to the ancestral hall and found Jiang Lei whipping Jiang Chen as family punishment.
• Jiang Yantian gained repeated Humiliation Points notifications as Jiang Chen endured all fifty lashes.
• Jiang Yantian recalled that Shen Qiuye would take him and Jiang Chen to Marquis Yongning’s Manor, where he and the fake daughter planned to drug Jiang Chen and the true daughter and frame them.

After Jiang Chen was whipped and ignored by the Jiang Lineage, Nanny Gui treated his injuries while he planned to save Su Jinrou from the fate he remembered. Jiang Yantian handed out food and cloth in the Martial Capital to build his public image, and Su Qian arrived with Su Jinrou.

• Jiang Yantian left the Jiang residence after watching Jiang Chen being whipped and went to distribute food and cloth on the streets.
• Jiang Chen lay injured and resentful in his room until Nanny Gui came to apply wound medicine.
• Jiang Chen resolved to attend the banquet at Marquis Yongning's Manor and save Su Jinrou from the scandal he remembered from his previous life.
• Jiang Yantian set up a porridge stall, distributed buns and cloth, and drew both praise and suspicion from the crowd.
• Su Qian arrived at the stall with Su Jinrou, whom Jiang Yantian recognized as the true heiress of Marquis Yongning's Manor.

Jiang Yantian met Su Jinrou and openly favored her over Su Qian, whose jealousy turned into a plan to ruin her at the family reunion banquet. Su Jinrou then told Jiang Yantian how she had returned home with help from the Canglan Empress, Shengxia.

• Jiang Yantian greeted Su Qian with teasing insults and then praised Su Jinrou when she introduced herself.
• Su Jinrou blushed as she remembered her mother mentioning Jiang Yantian as a possible marriage match, while Su Qian grew jealous of their exchange.
• Jiang Yantian compared Su Qian unfavorably to Su Jinrou, prompting Su Qian to decide to disgrace her at the family reunion banquet.
• Jiang Yantian asked Su Jinrou about her travels, and she explained that Shengxia had once traveled with her before becoming the Canglan Empress and helping her find her family.

Jiang Yantian learned that the Canglan Empress was his former maid Shengxia while Su Qian tried to discredit Su Jinrou and draw Jiang Yantian’s attention away from her. He gave Su Jinrou a box as a gift for her upcoming family recognition banquet, but Su Qian took it on her behalf, unaware that it contained a Poison Sore Pill.

• Jiang Yantian recognized Shengxia’s name and realized his former maid had become the Canglan Empress.
• Su Qian claimed that an unrelated man had brought Su Jinrou back and cast doubt on her account of the empress.
• Su Jinrou defended the Canglan Empress, while Jiang Yantian grew angry at Su Qian’s slander.
• Jiang Yantian asked about Su Jinrou’s upcoming family recognition banquet and offered her a gift as her older brother.
• Su Qian took the box, and Jiang Yantian knew she would likely claim the pill inside, which was actually a Poison Sore Pill.

Jiang Yantian sent Su Jinrou and Su Qian away, then arranged to foul the dry well where Jiang Chen was searching for a hidden treasure. Su Qian began plotting to ruin Su Jinrou’s reputation at the Su Lineage family reunion banquet, which was scheduled for the day after tomorrow.

• Jiang Yantian dismissed Su Jinrou and Su Qian, and Su Jinrou left with a favorable impression of him.
• In their carriage, Su Qian pressured Su Jinrou to promise she would reject Jiang Yantian, while Su Jinrou grew wary of her younger sister’s manipulative behavior.
• Su Qian decided to ruin Su Jinrou’s reputation at the family reunion banquet so their parents would turn against her.
• Jiang Yantian returned to the Jiang Lineage and watched Jiang Chen climb out of the dry well after checking the hidden treasure.
• Jiang Yantian ordered Laifu and Chang Wei to fill the well with manure, venomous snakes, rotten meat, and other filth, then gave them a Scent-Retaining Potion to make the stench linger.

Laifu and Chang Wei contaminated the dry well on Jiang Yantian’s orders, while Jiang Chen went there at midnight to study the formation. The stench and a snake drove Jiang Chen out before he could make progress, leaving him rushing back to bathe.

• Laifu and Chang Wei gathered foul waste, rotten food, snakes, and the contents of Jiang Yantian’s bottle to dump into the dry well.
• Jiang Chen studied the intricate formation beneath the well and decided to visit it again that night to seek its weakness.
• At midnight, Jiang Chen slipped past the patrols and climbed down into the well, where he landed in the contaminated sludge.
• Jiang Chen retched at the stench, then discovered a venomous snake had bitten his calf and kicked it away.
• Jiang Chen escaped the well and hurried back to his quarters to bathe.

Jiang Chen struggled to conceal the foul smell clinging to him and went to the family reunion banquet at Marquis Yongning's Manor disguised beneath a cloak and carriage. The State-Protecting Duke Manor's party arrived, where Lady Zhao welcomed them.

• Jiang Chen spent the night bathing in spices, but the smell on him only grew worse, and he stayed in his room all day.
• Shen Qiuye prepared to attend Marquis Yongning's family reunion banquet with Jiang Yantian and Jiang Chen.
• Jiang Chen emerged wrapped head to toe in a cloak, claiming he had his own plans, and Shen Qiuye left without questioning him further.
• Jiang Chen hid beneath a carriage rather than ride inside or on horseback, while Jiang Yantian noticed him sneak under it.
• The State-Protecting Duke Manor's procession arrived at Marquis Yongning's Manor, and Lady Zhao hurried forward to greet them.

Jiang Yantian gave Zhao Liu a fifth-grade Beauty Nourishing Pill at her daughter’s family reunion banquet, while Jiang Chen’s strange appearance and distant greeting made an awkward impression. The group entered Marquis Yongning’s Manor, where the guests gathered before the banquet and young ladies admired Jiang Yantian.

• Shen Qiuye and Zhao Liu greeted each other warmly, and Jiang Lei went to speak with Marquis Su.
• Jiang Yantian gave Zhao Liu a fifth-grade Beauty Nourishing Pill, which she accepted after Shen Qiuye urged her to keep it.
• Zhao Liu noticed Jiang Chen standing apart, and he greeted her from a distance rather than coming closer.
• Zhao Liu ushered the Jiang family inside Marquis Yongning’s Manor, where officials and nobles mingled before the banquet.
• Unmarried young ladies watched and whispered about Jiang Yantian, while Jiang Chen kept to a corner in his unusual outfit.

At the marquis’s family reunion banquet, Jiang Chen planned to foil Su Qian and Jiang Yantian’s scheme, but a group of young men mocked his appearance and accused him of sneaking in as a thief. After he claimed to be a young master of the State-Protecting Duke Manor, they called him an impostor and sent for the guards, leaving Jiang Chen confident they would recognize him.

• Jiang Chen recalled that Su Qian would soon lure him and Su Jinrou into drinking drugged wine, and planned to switch the cups so Su Qian and Jiang Yantian would drink it.
• Gao Wan insulted Jiang Chen’s appearance, and the two argued about their manners and family backgrounds.
• Four of Gao Wan’s friends joined in, mocked Jiang Chen’s smell and clothing, and tried to lift his cloak while accusing him of stealing.
• Jiang Chen declared that he was a young master of the Jiang Lineage of the State-Protecting Duke Manor, but Gao Wan and the others laughed and accused him of impersonating Jiang Yantian.
• The men sent for the marquis’s guards to have Jiang Chen arrested, while Jiang Chen waited for the guards to confirm his identity.

Jiang Chen was accused of theft and forced to remove his cloak in front of the guards and assembled young masters. Jiang Yantian sided against him, and the discovery that Jiang Chen had crapped himself left him publicly humiliated.

• Gao Wan accused Jiang Chen of acting suspiciously, and two guards arrived to investigate him.
• The guards failed to recognize Jiang Chen when he identified himself as a young master of the State-Protecting Duke Manor.
• Jiang Yantian arrived, confirmed Jiang Chen was his elder brother, then blamed him for looking suspicious and refusing to cooperate.
• Gao Wan and the others seized on Jiang Yantian's remarks and renewed their pressure on Jiang Chen.
• Jiang Chen opened his cloak at Jiang Yantian's urging, revealing that he had crapped himself and releasing a terrible stench.

Jiang Chen watched Jiang Yantian manipulate Su Qian after she ate the Poison Sore Pill, then planned to turn their expected scheme against them. Su Qian proposed drugging a gathering with Indulgence Powder, while Jiang Yantian secretly intended to dose the entire wine jar and use the chaos to get what he wanted.

• Jiang Yantian dismissed the guards and the five young masters, leaving Jiang Chen furious at being blamed and humiliated.
• Su Qian approached Jiang Yantian with poisonous sores on her face and asked why the pill he gave Su Jinrou had harmed her instead.
• Jiang Yantian claimed he had meant to poison Su Jinrou and told Su Qian he would need time to prepare an antidote.
• Jiang Chen recognized that Jiang Yantian planned to repeat the wine scheme from his previous life and resolved to turn it against him.
• Su Qian suggested adding Indulgence Powder to peach blossom wine and luring Su Jinrou and Jiang Chen into a storage room where others could catch them.
• Jiang Yantian agreed to Su Qian's proposal while privately planning to dose the entire jar and make Jiang Chen and Su Qian take the drug.

Su Qian and Jiang Yantian prepared a scheme involving drugged wine, while Jiang Chen mistakenly believed he could use his memories of his previous life to turn the trap against them. Jiang Yantian slapped Jiang Chen but still led him to the lake pavilion, where Jiang Chen resolved to protect Su Jinrou.

• Su Qian prepared two cups with liquid on their rims and agreed to meet Jiang Yantian at the lake pavilion before the family reunion banquet.
• Jiang Yantian obtained Even Elephants Suffer and effect-altering powder from the system and poured them into the peach blossom wine.
• Jiang Chen expected Jiang Yantian to tolerate his insults, but Jiang Yantian slapped him and threatened him.
• Jiang Chen swallowed his pride and followed Jiang Yantian to the pavilion, intent on saving Su Jinrou.
• Jiang Yantian and Jiang Chen met Su Qian and Su Jinrou at the lakeside, and Jiang Chen became captivated by Su Jinrou and vowed to protect her.

Jiang Chen tried to turn Jiang Yantian and Su Qian’s drugging scheme against them by swapping the wine cups, but Su Jinrou and then Jiang Chen also fell unconscious. Jiang Yantian destroyed Jiang Chen’s recording stone, staged the scene, and carried Su Jinrou away.

• Jiang Chen secretly switched the wine cups while Jiang Yantian, Su Qian, and Su Jinrou looked away.
• Su Qian and Jiang Yantian drank the drugged wine and pretended to faint, while Su Jinrou began to accuse Jiang Chen after she felt the drug’s effects.
• Su Jinrou lost consciousness before Jiang Chen could explain, and Jiang Chen soon collapsed as well.
• Jiang Yantian rose, took Jiang Chen’s Image-Recording Stone, and crushed it.
• Jiang Yantian gathered the evidence, took Su Jinrou away, and moved Jiang Chen and Su Qian to a storage room.

Jiang Yantian pretended to resist the drug’s effects while Su Jinrou struggled to control herself, and she eventually initiated their intimacy. Afterward, Jiang Yantian promised to take responsibility for her, and Su Jinrou accepted.

• Jiang Yantian gave Su Jinrou a system-provided remedy to keep her lucid and prepared ice water to help himself resist the drug.
• Jiang Yantian acted as though he was fighting the drug and urged Su Jinrou to hold on, while she repeatedly approached and embraced him.
• Su Jinrou eventually took off her clothes and initiated intimacy with Jiang Yantian.
• A little over two hours later, Su Jinrou had recovered and told Jiang Yantian she had been willing.
• Jiang Yantian promised to take responsibility for Su Jinrou and said she was his woman from then on, and she accepted.

Jiang Yantian convinced Su Jinrou that Jiang Chen had drugged them, then let her overhear Su Qian plotting against her with him. After comforting Su Jinrou and returning to the banquet, Jiang Yantian secretly directed Gao Wan and others to expose the people in the storeroom, leaving a crowd on its way to witness the scandal.

• Jiang Yantian told Su Jinrou that he had rescued her from Jiang Chen's scheme, and she believed him.
• Jiang Yantian and Su Jinrou heard Su Qian in the storeroom plotting to disgrace Su Jinrou and claim control of the Su Lineage.
• Su Jinrou realized Su Qian had been working against her, but Jiang Yantian persuaded her to hide what they had heard and return to the banquet.
• Jiang Yantian secretly told Gao Wan that Jiang Chen was in the storeroom with a woman.
• Gao Wan and four young masters confirmed the scene inside, then split up to lead others to the storeroom.

At Su Jinrou’s family recognition banquet, Jiang Chen and Su Qian were caught having sex in a storeroom, threatening both families’ reputations. Jiang Yantian helped conceal their identities and carried the pair away while the hosts planned to blame servants.

• Guests followed rumors of a treasure and discovered Jiang Chen and Su Qian in the storeroom.
• The crowd gathered, and Gao Wan and his companions told Jiang Yantian that the man inside was Jiang Chen.
• Jiang Yantian, Jiang Lei, Shen Qiuye, Marquis Su, and Zhao Liu entered the storeroom and found the pair together.
• Jiang Yantian covered Jiang Chen and slapped him, secretly giving him a pill that kept him dazed.
• Jiang Yantian bundled Jiang Chen and Su Qian away, while Jiang Lei urged Marquis Su and Zhao Liu to tell guests that servants had been caught having an affair.

Jiang Yantian concealed the truth about Jiang Chen and Su Qian’s encounter, while the families gathered to confront Jiang Chen. Jiang Chen mistakenly believed he had been with Su Jinrou, and the chapter ended with Su Jinrou recoiling from him.

• Jiang Lei teleported away with the unconscious Jiang Chen and Su Qian, while Jiang Yantian told the gathered crowd that a servant and maid had been caught having an affair.
• Zhao Liu and Shen Qiuye composed themselves and hosted the banquet, where the guests were struck by Su Jinrou’s beauty.
• After the guests left, Jiang Yantian told the families that Jiang Chen had defiled Su Qian, and Jiang Lei led everyone to confront him.
• Jiang Lei slapped Jiang Chen and dragged him before the Su family, who demanded an explanation for what had happened to their daughter.
• Jiang Chen mistook Su Jinrou for the woman he had been with and asked whether he had done anything to her, prompting her to flee in disgust.

Jiang Chen agreed to take responsibility for what he believed had happened with Su Jinrou, only to learn that he was being married to Su Qian instead. When he tried to refuse, Jiang Yantian’s Dog Barking Pill made him bark uncontrollably, and the families mistook it for an act.

• Jiang Chen agreed to marry Su Jinrou and take responsibility for their supposed intimacy, so the Jiang and Su families settled the marriage arrangements.
• Marquis Su brought out Su Qian and announced that she would marry into the Jiang Lineage, leaving Jiang Chen stunned.
• Jiang Chen protested that he would not marry Su Qian, and Jiang Lei rebuked him for breaking his promise.
• Jiang Chen tried to explain himself, but the Dog Barking Pill Jiang Yantian had given him made him bark like a dog.
• Jiang Yunyu suggested that Jiang Chen was pretending to be mad to escape the marriage, and the families dismissed his protests.