Recaps

Jiang Siyu admitted why he had pretended to be foolish and accepted Jiang Muyan and Song Yutang, while his family welcomed him back cautiously. He began to reconcile with Jiang Shiqing, agreeing to visit their parents’ graves together.

• Jiang Siyu told Song Yutang and Jiang Muyan that he had pretended to be hopelessly stupid because he feared them, but realized they had been trying to help him stand on his own.
• Jiang Siyu apologized to Jiang Muyan and Song Yutang, and Jiang Guoqiang welcomed him home for dinner.
• Jiang Boyan revealed that he had earned guaranteed admission to the same university as Jiang Muyan, and Jiang Muyan offered to fund his physics research.
• Jiang Shiqing returned dressed for her research team, and Song Yutang and their aunt helped prepare her for university while Jiang Siyu planned to intern in the Jiang Group’s warehousing department.
• Before leaving, Jiang Siyu gave Jiang Shiqing money and agreed to visit their parents’ graves with her when she told him their death anniversary was approaching.

Song Yutang and Jiang Muyan’s busy, prosperous life left them content to let having a child happen naturally, until they woke as unseen spirits in an imperial palace. Song Yutang recognized the unconscious emperor on the bed as her son Qi’er, and the chapter left them facing his mysterious illness.

• Song Yutang and Jiang Muyan became successful in their work, with people calling her President Song and him President Song’s husband.
• Song Yutang no longer needed a child to prove her worth, while she and Jiang Muyan continued their passionate relationship.
• After falling asleep together, Song Yutang and Jiang Muyan woke in a palace, still wearing the clothes they had worn to bed.
• They discovered that the palace servants could neither see nor touch them, and Jiang Muyan suspected they were dreaming or that their souls had left their bodies.
• Song Yutang heard that the emperor had been unconscious for three days and that people blamed his condition on his grief for Empress Dowager Duanyi.
• Song Yutang recognized the unconscious emperor as her son Qi’er and entered his bedchamber with Jiang Muyan.

Song Yutang reunited with the dying Muzong of Jing, who tearfully told her how he had avenged her and denied ever poisoning her. After he sent the palace attendants away, he reached for her and said he wanted them to be alone together, prompting Jiang Muyan to ask where that left him.

• Song Yutang tried to wake Muzong of Jing and called to him as his mother, and he opened his eyes and recognized her.
• Muzong of Jing told Song Yutang how he had punished Li Zerui, Song Lian'er, the Song clan, and Water Moon Nunnery in her name.
• Muzong of Jing insisted he had never poisoned Song Yutang, and she reassured him that she had known her life was already nearing its end.
• Muzong of Jing ordered the palace attendants and imperial physicians out after realizing they could not see Song Yutang.
• Muzong of Jing reached out to embrace Song Yutang and said he wanted them to be alone, and Jiang Muyan asked what that made him.

Song Yutang reunited with Muzong of Jing in his feverish dream and introduced Jiang Muyan as her current husband. She reassured her son that she was happy in her new life before he embraced her and begged her not to leave.

• Muzong of Jing mistook Jiang Muyan for a supernatural guard and offered him wealth and titles to keep Song Yutang by his side.
• Song Yutang told Muzong of Jing that Jiang Muyan was her current husband, and Muzong disparaged him and offered to find Song Yutang a better consort.
• Jiang Muyan and Muzong of Jing argued over Jiang Muyan's qualifications and the Jing Dynasty's feudal hierarchy until Song Yutang's laughter quieted them.
• Muzong of Jing reluctantly offered to make Jiang Muyan a duke and promised lavish titles and gifts for Song Yutang's future children.
• Song Yutang told Muzong of Jing she was happy in her new family and urged him to live well and be a good emperor.
• Muzong of Jing wept, embraced Song Yutang, and begged her not to leave.

Song Yutang and Jiang Muyan said farewell to Muzong of Jing in a shared dream, then awoke in their own world and wondered how they had experienced the same vision. Song Yutang’s sudden nausea left them suspecting she might be pregnant.

• Song Yutang urged Muzong of Jing to look after Wei Xun, and he promised to do so while pleading with her not to leave.
• As Song Yutang and Jiang Muyan faded away, they comforted Muzong of Jing and promised to meet him in another life.
• Muzong of Jing awoke from the dream in tears, surrounded by the imperial physicians and attendants in his palace.
• Song Yutang and Jiang Muyan woke at the same time and realized they had shared a dream of returning to the Jing Dynasty.
• Song Yutang said she had once wished Muzong of Jing could have been her biological son, and Jiang Muyan joked that they would be fortunate to have him as a child.
• Song Yutang suddenly retched, and she and Jiang Muyan wondered if she was pregnant.