Recaps

Yun Manman rescued a girl from the Flower-Filled House, incapacitated Master Wang, and led the girl out of the residence. After the girl swore loyalty to her, Yun Manman renamed her Yuanwei and set off for a brothel and gambling house.

• Yun Manman freed the girl from her ropes, gave her a healing fruit, and urged her to live for herself.
• Yun Manman knocked out the women in Master Wang's room, immobilized him, and forced a pill into his mouth.
• Yun Manman covered the unconscious women, then took the recovering girl out through the back gate.
• The girl, Mu Xue, knelt to thank Yun Manman and asked to stay by her side as her servant.
• Yun Manman accepted Mu Xue's loyalty, renamed her Yuanwei, and told her to call her Master as they headed for a brothel and a gambling house.

Yun Manman went to the Ten Cold Gate with Yuanwei and demonstrated her strength to its assassins. Han Yu agreed to hear her proposal to work with the pavilion for a year, and she left with Yuanwei to collect her belongings from the Flower-Filled House.

• Yuanwei warned Yun Manman that Master Wang might seek revenge, but Yun Manman assured her he would be too miserable to do so.
• Yuanwei led Yun Manman to the Ten Cold Gate branch, where Yun Manman sensed a powerful expert watching from the third floor.
• Yun Manman challenged the pavilion's assassins and defeated ten black-clad men with her blade, martial arts, and silver needles.
• Han Yu introduced himself and invited Yun Manman inside after she proposed working with the Ten Cold Gate for a year, taking only missions against unforgivably evil people.
• Yun Manman took the still-dazed Yuanwei toward the Flower-Filled House to retrieve her belongings.

Yun Manman robbed a county storehouse and the madam’s room, then returned to the inn with Yuanwei and prepared to go back to the village. After finding two starving boys, she agreed to help their sick companion and followed them outside the city.

• Yuanwei offered Yun Manman her savings to dissuade her from becoming an assassin, but Yun Manman refused the money and left.
• Yun Manman incapacitated four guards, stole the storehouse’s valuables, and looted the madam’s room before burning Yuanwei’s pavilion.
• Yun Manman told Yuanwei they would return to the village to farm, while reflecting that she had agreed to take outside commissions for the Ten Cold Gate for a year.
• At the inn, Yun Manman gave buns to two beggar boys and promised to bring food and see whether she could save their sick companion, Brother Tongtong.
• Yun Manman and Yuanwei followed the boys through a dog hole in the city wall and into the woods.

Mo Beiyuan learned that an unknown man called Dad had robbed the Wang residence, and he ordered his guards to find him and interrogate the captives. Meanwhile, Yun Manman found a group of starving children in the woods, healed Tongtong with a Returning Lotus Fruit, and offered to take them in as loyal subordinates.

• Qing Yi reported that Dad had emptied the Wang residence and poisoned Master Wang into madness, so Mo Beiyuan ordered an investigation and retraining for the hidden guards.
• Han Yu followed Qing Yi away without telling Mo Beiyuan about the purple-eyed female assassin, and Mo Beiyuan's search across Wuliang County failed to recover the stolen goods.
• Yun Manman and Yuanwei found twenty-eight children living in makeshift shelters and gave them buns.
• Yun Manman gave the sick Tongtong a Returning Lotus Fruit, and he began recovering as he ate it.
• Yun Manman asked the children to join her as loyal subordinates, and Tongtong questioned whether she intended to make them slaves or death warriors.

Yun Manman recruited Tongtong and the other children, took them to Red Star Village, and welcomed them into her household as her followers and pupils. The group bonded over her horse’s bad haircut, while Tongtong began to imagine a life beyond hiding and begging.

• Tongtong swore loyalty to Yun Manman, and the other children chose to follow her as well.
• Yun Manman told the children to call her Sister Man, declared herself their master, and said they would go home with her to farm.
• Yun Manman bought the children new clothes, registered their households in the county town, and led them toward Red Star Village.
• The children laughed at Yun Manman’s horse until it affectionately rubbed against her, and Tongtong tried to kneel and apologize for mocking it.
• Yun Manman told Tongtong not to kneel so readily and urged the children to live boldly, then invited them to pet the horse.
• Yun Manman said she would give the children better names, and they suspected she was using her authority to get even with them.

Yun Manman returned home with the children she had rescued and promised to give them names, strength, and a place in the world. After reuniting with her worried family, she revealed that she had earned a fortune from killing tigers and saving a wealthy merchant, leaving her parents stunned by the gold she showed them.

• Yun Manman gave the rescued children the surname Yun and names drawn from a poem, and Yun Mo and the others vowed lifelong loyalty to her.
• Yun Manman told the children about her family, and they laughed together over a secret before continuing to the village.
• Yun Manman arrived home after twelve hours away, and Madam Zhou, Yun Zewu, and Yun Zeren rushed to embrace her while Old Father Yun checked that she was unharmed.
• Yun Manman introduced Yun Mo and the other children to her family and said she planned to build houses on the land and buy the village's vacant plots.
• Yun Manman told her parents that she had killed six tigers, sold them for two thousand taels of silver, and received a thousand taels of gold from a wealthy merchant.
• When Old Father Yun and Madam Zhou doubted her story, Yun Manman showed them two gold ingots and said she had hidden the rest.

Yun Manman used her mountain earnings to arrange the purchase of land and farmland and to hire workers to build a large house for her family. The next day, the village chief began handling the purchases while Yun Manman and the children built temporary huts, and the village chief’s wife spread news that left local gossips stunned and envious.

• Yun Manman visited the village chief and offered his family a roast duck before asking to buy all the land near her home and all available farmland and uncultivated land in the village.
• Yun Manman gave the village chief five taels of silver to arrange the land purchases, find a master house builder, and recruit reliable workers for thirty copper coins a day.
• The village chief resolved to help Yun Manman, saying she had earned her money by risking her life and was kindhearted.
• The next day, the village chief took Old Father Yun to town to buy land and find a house builder while Yun Manman and the children built thatched huts outside their courtyard.
• The village chief’s wife told the gossiping women that Yun Manman had bought the village’s remaining land and planned to hire workers, leaving them speechless and envious.

Yun Manman oversaw the construction of her large compound and the little ones’ residential compound, while preparing fields and gathering oxen to help farm them. The chapter ended with her attending a housewarming feast that brought together the workers she hoped to employ in her fields.

• Old Man Yun planned to move into Yun Zhen’s new house despite their severed ties, and Yun Wang questioned whether he could.
• Yun Manman designed her compounds, hired the village chief to oversee construction, and taught the little ones to turn the fields.
• Yun Manman flew to the mountain, caught three oxen, and gathered wild potatoes for a trial planting.
• After a month and a half, the houses, training ground, and schoolroom were finished, and Yun Manman agreed to hold a housewarming feast.
• Yun Manman thanked the villagers at the feast and told them she would need workers for her fields in the future.

Yun Manman and Yun Zhen confronted the old Yun household when they tried to move into Yun Zhen’s new home. Yun Manman stopped them with force and left Yun Wang wounded in the thigh with a dagger.

• Old Man Yun arrived with Old Woman Yun, Yun Wang, Yun Fa, and their families, and demanded that Yun Zhen let them move into his home.
• Yun Zhen refused, and the village chief and villagers reminded Old Man Yun that Yun Zhen had registered as a separate household after being forced to sever ties.
• Yun Manman blocked Old Man Yun when he tried to strike Yun Zhen and sent him flying with a palm strike.
• Old Man Yun and Old Woman Yun tried to enter anyway, but Yun Manman broke Old Man Yun’s tobacco pipe and ordered them to leave.
• Yun Wang ignored Yun Manman’s warning and tried to enter the courtyard, so Yun Manman threw a dagger into his thigh.

Yun Manman drove the Yun Family out of her courtyard and warned them not to provoke her again. After reassuring her neighbors, she heard that their resentment had strengthened Guagua’s space and discussed whether to deal with the family before they could retaliate.

• Yun Manman knocked Old Woman Yun and the other Yun Family members out of her courtyard, then warned Old Man Yun, Old Woman Yun, and Yun Wang that she would kill them if they kept provoking her.
• Yun Manman reassured the neighbors that she would not harm anyone who left her and her family alone, then invited them to stay for dinner.
• The Yun Family returned to their roofless house, where Old Man Yun regretted severing ties with Yun Manman’s family while Old Woman Yun and Yun Wang remained frightened and resentful.
• Yun Manman placed Returning Lotus Fruits on the table, and Guagua told her the Yun Family’s resentment had increased its space and points.
• Yuanwei asked whether they should deal with the Yun Family ahead of time, and Yun Mo warned that they might still scheme against or harm Yun Manman.

Yun Manman discovered that her growing belly and sudden abdominal pain might mean she was pregnant, recalling the man in white from the cave. She asked Yuanwei to have her father fetch a doctor, while Mo Beiyuan had experienced a matching bout of abdominal pain at his army camp.

• Yun Manman secretly returned to the mountain woods after leaving Red Star Village, then spent three days in the county town before coming back with supplies.
• Yuanwei told Yun Manman that Old Hag Yun had fallen into a cesspit and remained unconscious despite several doctors’ efforts.
• Yun Manman increased the children’s training, while the villagers watched them run in formation wearing sandbags and matching white outfits.
• Yun Manman and Mo Beiyuan both suffered sudden stabbing pain in their lower abdomens, though the army physician found no sign of illness or poisoning in Mo Beiyuan.
• Yuanwei and Madam Zhou noticed Yun Manman’s growing belly, and Yuanwei suggested she might be pregnant.
• Yun Manman recalled the man in white from the cave and asked Yuanwei to have her father fetch a doctor because she might be pregnant.

Yun Manman learned she was more than three months pregnant with twins and told her family that the children’s father had died, though Mo Beiyuan knew he was alive. She accepted the pregnancy and ended her cooperation with the Ten Cold Gate, but village gossip about her pregnancy stirred her anger.

• A doctor confirmed that Yun Manman was pregnant with twins, and she told her family the children’s father had died while saving her.
• Yun Manman’s family agreed to support her and the children, and she shared fruit with them to mark the news as a happy occasion.
• Yun Manman stopped strenuous exercise, continued her studies and martial arts practice, and ended her cooperation with the Ten Cold Gate.
• By her fifth month, Yun Manman had accepted village children into her lessons, though only the village chief’s sons kept attending.
• Old Woman Shen and Old Woman Wang insulted Yun Manman and accused her of selling herself, so she turned toward home with killing intent.

Yun Manman enjoyed her pregnancy while Mo Beiyuan developed unexplained pregnancy-like nausea. After Guagua woke her at midnight, Yun Manman confronted Old Woman Wang and punished her for insulting Yun Manman's children, then encountered Yun Mo on her way home.

• Yun Zeren, Yun Zewu, Madam Zhou, and Old Father Yun fussed over Yun Manman and urged her to eat, while Yun Manman felt little discomfort from her pregnancy.
• Mo Beiyuan vomited at the smell of food, and Luo Fan observed that his symptoms were normally associated with pregnant women.
• Guagua woke Yun Manman in the middle of the night and sent her to deal with Old Woman Wang.
• Yun Manman kicked open Old Woman Wang's door, tore out her tongue with a transparent lotus, and warned her not to cause trouble again.
• Yun Manman reassured her unborn children that she would protect them and then found Yun Mo waiting beneath the moonlight.

Yun Manman refused to mourn Old Woman Yun, and the old Yun household ended in three gruesome deaths after Old Man Yun’s crimes came to light. As Yun Manman prepared to give birth to twins, Mo Beiyuan continued suffering unexplained pregnancy-like symptoms in the military camp.

• Yun Manman rejected Old Man Yun’s demand that Old Father Yun observe mourning for Old Woman Yun and shut the door on him.
• Old Man Yun starved Old Woman Yun to death, then mistook Yun Wang for her ghost and killed him before escaping his restraints and hanging himself.
• Yun Manman told Old Father Yun he could fulfill his filial duty if he wished, then instructed Yuanwei to keep training and educating the beggars she had taken in.
• Mo Beiyuan ate noodles without vomiting but suffered another painful episode, and Luo Fan found no answer when he checked his pulse.
• Yun Manman’s water broke, and she calmly reassured Madam Zhou and the others while they prepared for the birth of her twins.

Yun Manman gave birth to twins safely while Mo Beiyuan endured the same excruciating pain from afar. A strange celestial display appeared as the babies were born, and Mo Beiyuan suspected his suffering was connected to visions of a woman with violet eyes.

• Yun Zewu and Yun Ting sparred outside while Old Father Yun anxiously waited for news from Yun Manman's room.
• Yun Manman, Madam Zhou, Yuanwei, and the midwives waited through labor as Yun Manman remained calm and ate Returning Lotus Fruit.
• Mo Beiyuan suffered severe waves of pain in the northwestern military camp, then lost consciousness.
• A crescent moon and two brilliant stars illuminated the sky as Yun Manman gave birth to the twins, and Yuanwei reassured the family that all three were safe.
• Mo Beiyuan woke exhausted and said he should no longer have to suffer; he kept his visions of violet eyes and a woman to himself.
• Luo Fan brought Mo Beiyuan outside to see the celestial display, while Qing Yi noticed the imprint Mo Beiyuan's soaked body had left on the ground.

Mo Beiyuan recognized the celestial phenomenon as the emperor ordered a search for newborn twins, fearing they would threaten his throne. At the Yun Family, Yun Manman recovered after giving birth and began discussing names for her sons, while her family asked her to wait until they had studied more.

• Mo Beiyuan watched the strange sky and felt that he had seen the phenomenon before, recalling a girl with purple eyes and shared pain.
• The Imperial Astronomical Bureau chief told the emperor that twin stars foretold the birth of a destined sovereign and a god of war, likely among the imperial relatives or great families.
• The emperor ordered Yintou to investigate Southern Mo and slaughter every family in which twins had been born that day.
• Yun Manman admired her healthy sons with her family and wondered whether the second baby's blue eyes came from their father.
• Yun Manman asked Old Father Yun to name the babies, but Madam Zhou recalled the unappealing names he had once proposed.
• Yun Zewu, Yun Zeren, and Old Father Yun asked Yun Manman to wait so they could study and choose names for the boys.

Yun Manman named her newborn sons Yun Rui and Yun Xiao, protected them and began training her household’s fighters. The chapter ended with thirty-three trainees heading into the mountains while Old Woman Shen’s complaints about the Yun Family went unheard.

• Yun Manman named the elder twin Yun Rui and the younger Yun Xiao, while Old Father Yun and Yun Zewu gave them the nicknames Dabao and Xiaobao.
• Guagua warned Yun Manman that someone important held powerful resentment toward her newborn sons.
• Yun Manman distributed celebratory sweets, nursed the twins, and guided Yun Chuan in making concealed weapons from her designs.
• Yun Manman ordered her family to keep the twins safe and led thirty-three trainees through a month of intense training.
• Yun Manman took the trainees into the mountains for their next training, while Auntie Chen defended her sons’ place in the Yun Family and Old Woman Shen injured her foot in anger.

Yun Manman trained the Yun Family against a wolf pack and received two wolf cubs to raise alongside her own children. After half a month of training, she prepared to take everyone hunting, while Mo Beiyuan and Han Yu discussed the emperor’s investigation into the twins.

• Yun Manman brought the group to a cave, where they fought wolves under strict rules while she fed the pack Returning Lotus Fruits.
• The wolf queen gave Yun Manman two cubs after she asked to raise them with her own children.
• Mo Beiyuan learned that five hundred Imperial Shadow Guards had left the capital to investigate the great clans and chose not to interfere.
• After half a month of wolf sparring, Yun Manman declared the group ready for a final training exercise and planned to take them hunting.
• Yun Zewu suggested that the group hunt that day because everyone still had energy.

Yun Manman led her companions to infiltrate a bandit den concealed behind an illusionary cliff, then ordered them to rescue captives and seize the stronghold. She pursued the den’s leader through a hidden passage and left him crippled and dragged him away as she collected his treasure.

• Yun Manman and her companions disguised themselves as vulnerable women and let three bandits lead them toward the den.
• At the hidden entrance, Yun Manman’s companions subdued the bandits, and she dispelled the cliff illusion to reveal the valley stronghold.
• Yun Manman assigned Yuanwei and Yun Fang to rescue the captured women, Yun Lin and Yun Chuan to search for evidence and supplies, and Yun Mo to capture the bandits alive.
• During the raid, Yun Manman intercepted a poisoned needle aimed at Yun Mo and pursued the attacker into a hidden passage.
• Yun Manman crippled the black-robed bandit leader, silenced him, broke his kneecaps, and collected the gold and silver from his secret chamber.

Yun Manman raided the Longevity Stronghold and turned its bandits into sparring partners while coaching her companions through the fight. She left before the government troops arrived, and Mo Beiyuan protected her right to keep the stronghold’s treasure.

• Yun Manman took the stronghold’s valuables and gave Yun Ting, Yun Mo, Yun Lin, and the others tactical advice as they fought the bandits.
• Yun Mo severed the second chief’s arm, and Yun Lin prepared to use his expertise with drugs against his opponent.
• The exhausted third chief and the remaining bandits surrendered, complaining that Yun Manman had made them spar instead of killing them.
• Yun Yi warned Yun Manman that government troops were approaching, so she ended the training and led her group away.
• Mo Beiyuan arrived with County Magistrate Yang and heard the bandits explain how Yun Manman had defeated them without killing anyone.
• County Magistrate Yang objected to Yun Manman taking the treasure, but Mo Beiyuan said she had earned it, and the magistrate withdrew his complaint.

Four years after the mysterious woman broke through a bandit stronghold, Yun Manman had built the powerful Nine Lotus Pavilion while Mo Beiyuan and his allies discussed its influence. The chapter ended with Yun Manman reuniting with her four-year-old sons, including the unusually formal Dabao.

• Mo Beiyuan ordered Qingyi to investigate the woman who had broken through the stone wall, but they found no clues.
• Four years later, Han Yu complained to Mo Beiyuan that the Nine Lotus Pavilion was taking Ten Cold Gate's business, and Mo Beiyuan advised him to seek friendly relations.
• Si Shang and Mo Beiyuan discussed the Nine Lotus Pavilion's vast reach and elusive female master, while Mo Beiyuan dismissed the emperor's chances of controlling her.
• Yun Manman ordered Yun Lin to tell Yuanwei to strike the Leng Family's brothels and gambling houses without restraint.
• Yun Lin departed with pills and Yun Manman's message; the chapter noted her medical training and the continued growth of Yun Manman's space.
• Yun Manman found Erbao teasing Dabao, then greeted Dabao, who insisted that a refined gentleman should restrain his emotions.

Yun Manman took Dabao to One Grain Academy for the Double Seventh Festival, where they found Yun Zeren fighting Qian Youjin’s guards after Qian insulted Yun Manman and her sons. Yun Manman rejected Qian’s advances and knocked his reaching hand away with an unseen force.

• Yun Manman assigned Dabao two hours of Lotus Heart Art practice and Erbao fifty large characters after Erbao complained about his brother.
• Village Chief Zhang promised a band of two hundred men that he would deliver the Yun Family’s grain after the harvest, and their leader gave him five days.
• After the harvest, Yun Manman took Dabao to One Grain Academy, where he hurried to visit Yun Zeren, Yun Sheng, and Yun Ye.
• Qian Youjin insulted Yun Manman and her sons while Yun Zeren fought eight guards, and Yun Rui joined the fight.
• Yun Manman confronted Qian Youjin, dismissed his offer to view lanterns, and sent his reaching hand flying with a powerful force.

Yun Manman told Yun Rui that his father might still be alive and offered to find him, but Yun Rui said he wanted only her. Yun Rui then encountered Mo Beiyuan, who looked exactly like him, and the chapter ended as Mo Beiyuan recognized Yun Manman’s purple eyes and reacted with shock and joy.

• Qian Youjin insulted Yun Manman, but Yang Muwen arrived and drove him away while Yun Manman ordered Yun Sheng to punish him and deal with the Qian family.
• Yun Manman asked Yun Rui whether he wanted his father to return, and Yun Rui insisted that he and Xiao'er did not need a father and promised to bring him to her if they met.
• At a bookshop, Yun Rui saw Mo Beiyuan, whose face matched his own, and followed him to a secluded residence.
• Qing Yi attacked Yun Rui, but froze after recognizing his face and was struck by Yun Rui’s palm.
• Mo Beiyuan saw Yun Rui’s purple eyes, recognized the resemblance to Yun Manman, and began speaking in stunned disbelief.

Mo Beiyuan recognized Yun Rui as his son and reunited with Yun Manman, the woman he had dreamed of for five years. Yun Manman protected Yun Rui and threatened Mo Beiyuan when he confronted her about their past.

• Mo Beiyuan subdued Yun Rui, realized he was his son, and joyfully embraced him.
• Yun Rui warned Mo Beiyuan that his mother would destroy the hidden guards if they kept him.
• Yun Manman stormed into the prince's residence, fought Mo Beiyuan, and took Yun Rui into her arms.
• Mo Beiyuan recognized Yun Manman from his dreams and tried to stop her from leaving with Yun Rui.
• Mo Beiyuan accused Yun Manman of leaving after their encounter and hiding their child, while Yun Manman threatened to kill him if he targeted Yun Rui.

Yun Manman let Mo Beiyuan begin spending time with their children, while Yun Xiao discovered an attack on the Yun family and tried to defend their home. Yun Manman rushed to save him, but Yun Xiao collapsed as a sword came down behind him.

• Mo Beiyuan asked to stay with Yun Rui and Yun Xiao, and Yun Manman allowed him to visit the children but forbade him from taking them away.
• Yun Rui told Mo Beiyuan to take him home to meet Yun Xiao, then rode in the carriage with Mo Beiyuan and Yun Manman.
• Yun Xiao warned Old Father Yun and the village chief that an old man and a burly man planned to steal the grain with a group hiding in the back mountain.
• Yun Xiao ran out to fight the attackers while Old Father Yun and Madam Zhou sought shelter, and Old Father Yun was knocked down as two wolves guarded him.
• Yun Manman sensed danger as the carriage reached the village and flew toward the battle, urging Yun Xiao to focus his heart into a lotus.
• Yun Xiao formed a weak lotus strike against a saber-wielding attacker, then fell as another man's broadsword came down behind him.