Recaps

Cui Wan entered the Chu household through a forced marriage and slowly drew closer to the wounded, wheelchair-bound Chu Moqi. After her fifteenth-birthday ceremony and a painful night of separation, Cui Wan recognized the spear from the day Chu Moqi saved her, while he remained unable to acknowledge the memory or his feelings.

• Cui Wan was separated from Cui Minghai in the crowd welcoming the Chu Family Army, and Chu Moqi used his spear to help her stand.
• Cui Minghe and Lady Li chose Cui Wan to fulfill the Chu Family marriage agreement, and Cui Wan accepted in exchange for medicine and care for Yang Xiu.
• Cui Wan married Chu Moqi despite hearing that he was crippled, then found him injured in the rear garden before he arrived at their bridal chamber and treated her coldly.
• Cui Wan and Chu Moqi clashed over his nightmares and her attempts to help, but Chu Moqi later apologized for strangling her and punished servants who had disrespected her.
• Cui Wan made osmanthus cakes for the household, and Chu Moqi eventually admitted he wanted some, accepted her cakes, and let her call him A-Qi.
• Cui Wan stayed beside Chu Moqi after he injured himself while drunk, and he later sent her ginger soup and a bed warmer when she was ill.
• Chu Moqi secretly arranged Cui Wan’s hairpin ceremony and gave her a jeweled dagger, but after she got drunk and asked to consummate their marriage, he spent the night in his wheelchair and pushed her away the next day.
• After seven days apart, Cui Wan brought Chu Moqi bird’s nest soup and recognized his spear as the one that had helped him save her five years earlier, but he denied remembering her and called himself a cripple in private.

Cui Wan and Chu Moqi grew closer through hardship, but Cui Wan’s return to her family exposed a deadly impersonation and the truth behind an old disaster. After Chu Moqi saved her and she survived a suicide attempt, he began trying to regain his strength, while Tang Xiang uncovered a threat involving Li Yuezhou.

• Cui Wan defended Chu Moqi against street gossip, and Chu Moqi secretly punished the men who injured her before arranging for Changfeng to protect her.
• Chu Moqi and Cui Wan drew closer through reconciliations and shared moments, though his shame over his disability and jealousy of Li Yuezhou strained their relationship.
• After Emperor Kangshun declared an amnesty, Chu Moqi met Cui Minghai, agreed to let Cui Wan return to him, and watched her leave while concealing his love.
• Cui Minghai imprisoned Cui Wan and gave her a forged divorce agreement, but she escaped with Yang Xiu’s message and Chu Moqi found and rescued her from attackers.
• Chu Moqi learned from Yang Xiu’s papers that Cui Minghai was an impostor implicated in a deadly waterworks disaster, then accused the Cui brothers before the Censorate and saw them sentenced to death.
• Cui Wan witnessed the executions, learned that Yang Xiu had died, and grieved at her mother’s funeral before Chu Moqi rescued her from an attempted hanging and reassured her of his love.
• Cui Wan supported Chu Moqi as he practiced standing and riding to become stronger, while he hid the failures of his efforts from her.
• Li Yuezhou urged Tang Xiang to leave with him, threatened the residence, and vanished after Tang Xiang decided to tell A-Qi that someone was manipulating him.