Chapter Summaries

Red Adornment kidnapped Ji Hanchu, who had lost his memories of her, and insisted they were married and must elope while fleeing the Yin Clan. After taking him to There Is an Inn, she faced Ji Chengxuan, the head of the Gusu Ji Clan, who confronted her in the night.

• Ji Hanchu woke bound and drugged in an inn, and Red Adornment accused him of forgetting their past and struck at him with her whip.
• Red Adornment claimed Ji Hanchu was her husband, said the Ji and Yin Clans had stolen him from her, and freed him before declaring they would elope and flee.
• Red Adornment took Ji Hanchu away on horseback, admitted she had an ally inside the Ji Family, and told him she belonged to the Southern Frontier Ji Family.
• At There Is an Inn, Liu Xinlü recognized Ji Hanchu as Red Adornment's husband and learned he had forgotten only his memories of Red Adornment.
• An unknown man attacked Liu Xinlü on the inn's roof, and Red Adornment deflected the strike before identifying the newcomer as Ji Chengxuan.

Red Adornment escaped with the injured Ji Hanchu after fighting Ji Chengxuan, and her confused revelations led Ji Hanchu to suspect she belonged to Seven Stars Valley. In a flashback, Red Adornment met Ji Hanchu while plotting against the Yin Clan, then pursued vengeance for a child and Hongxiu; the chapter ended with Ji Hanchu confronting her at the river and ordering her to answer for her crimes.

• Ji Chengxuan tried to force Red Adornment to reveal where his senior sister was, but she poisoned him and escaped with Ji Hanchu.
• While fleeing, Red Adornment told an unconscious Ji Hanchu she came from Seven Stars Valley, then collapsed as he discovered her heart meridians were badly damaged.
• Years earlier, Tianshu told Red Adornment that Yin Yuanya had survived Rebirth, and she infiltrated the Yin Clan's medicine hall to investigate the antidote.
• Ji Hanchu mistook Red Adornment for Yin Yuanya's bedchamber maid and offered to take her to the Ji Family, while she concealed her identity and accepted his help.
• Red Adornment tortured and killed a Yin Clan disciple who had helped bury a child alive and revealed that the group had also assaulted Hongxiu.
• Ji Hanchu confronted Red Adornment as she bathed in the river and ordered her to return with him to answer for her crimes.

Red Adornment tormented Ji Hanchu, evaded his attempts to bring her back, and revealed that her killings stemmed from a deep grudge against the Yin Clan. When Yin Qingyan arrived, Red Adornment threatened her, but Ji Hanchu helped her escape; they hid together in a carriage as the Yin Clan searched for her.

• Red Adornment drugged Ji Hanchu and teased him, but gave him an antidote before leaving and refused to become his wife or return with him.
• Red Adornment poisoned a Yin Clan disciple, and Ji Hanchu saved him; she admitted she had a blood feud with the Yin Clan, while a flashback revealed the Yin Clan's Living Dead Gu had transformed Hongxiu into a puppet and fueled her hatred.
• Ji Hanchu offered to take Red Adornment to the Yin Clan to settle her grievances, but she refused, and they fought until Yin Qingyan arrived.
• Red Adornment held Yin Qingyan at knifepoint, and Xie Liyou arrived; Ji Hanchu pulled Red Adornment away, and they fled together as the Yin Clan searched the grounds.
• Ji Hanchu and Red Adornment hid in Xie Liyou's carriage, where Red Adornment teased him while he denied seeing anyone suspicious to a searching guard.

Red Adornment returned to Ji Hanchu after threatening to kill Yin Yuanya, while Ji Hanchu learned that her possible vendetta was tied to the disappearance of Hongxiu and her daughter. He struggled between his feelings and his sense of duty, then embraced Red Adornment, only for his elder brother to interrupt them at the door.

• Red Adornment poisoned Xie Liyou with Soft-Bone Powder, told Ji Hanchu she would kill Yin Yuanya, and took his jade bangle before leaving him her embroidered pouch.
• Xie Liyou told Ji Hanchu that Hongxiu had vanished with her daughter after the Yin Family pressured Ji Chengxuan to retrieve the Snow-Bearing Sword Manual, and Ji Hanchu began to suspect Red Adornment's revenge was connected to them.
• Ji Chengxuan asked Ji Hanchu whether he wanted to marry Yin Qingyan and take over the Ji Family, but Ji Hanchu refused and revealed that someone else was in his heart.
• Ji Jingsheng told Ji Hanchu he wanted to marry Little Xiuzi, while Ji Hanchu admitted that he loved Red Adornment but could not marry her.
• Red Adornment returned to Ji Hanchu's room, teased him about the bangle, and pressed him to choose between her and righteousness; Ji Hanchu finally embraced her.
• Ji Hanchu's elder brother arrived outside his room and asked to come in, interrupting the pair.

Red Adornment escaped the Ji estate with Ji Hanchu after he protected her from Ji Zhiyuan and Qi Jin, but their feelings collided with her determination to kill the Yin Clan. She killed Yin Sanping and planned to finish the remaining targets, then secretly watched Ji Hanchu and realized her own heart had begun to stir.

• Ji Hanchu shielded Red Adornment from Qi Jin, and Ji Zhiyuan eventually let them leave the estate.
• Qi Jin attacked Red Adornment with hidden weapons, but her venomous insects poisoned his leg before Ji Hanchu stopped their fight and helped her escape.
• Ji Hanchu kissed Red Adornment in a burst of jealousy, but she rejected his attempt to understand her motives and insisted she would kill Yin Yuanya.
• Red Adornment cornered Yin Sanping at the Waterside Inn and killed him with an arrow after giving him three chances to escape.
• Red Adornment told Tianshu that Yin Yuanya and Yin Fangchuan were the only targets left, then went to Ji Hanchu's room and watched him until she recognized her growing feelings.

Red Adornment tried to kill Yin Yuanya but spared him after Ji Hanchu intervened, then slept with Ji Hanchu and left him after he confessed his feelings. As the Yin Clan pursued her, Ji Hanchu followed and begged her to return to the Southern Frontier so she would survive, while Red Adornment struggled to face his love.

• Red Adornment lured Yin Yuanya into her room at Seeking Pleasure in Drunkenness and nearly killed him.
• Ji Hanchu found Red Adornment with Yin Yuanya and stopped her from killing him, then spent the night with her.
• Ji Hanchu confessed that he was fond of Red Adornment, but she returned his jade bracelet and left without accepting his feelings.
• Red Adornment spared Yin Yuanya, and Tianshu warned her that the Yin Clan was hunting her while arranging for Kaiyang to deal with him.
• Ji Hanchu followed Red Adornment and urged her to return to the Southern Frontier, confessing that he only cared whether she lived.

Red Adornment remained in the Yin family’s territory to finish her revenge, while Ji Hanchu stayed by her side despite the danger. After she held Yin Qingyan captive to draw out Yin Fangchuan, Ji Hanchu openly chose Red Adornment, leaving Yin Qingyan heartbroken.

• Ji Jingsheng came to kill Red Adornment at Ji Zhiyuan’s request, but Ji Hanchu intervened and took the blow meant for her.
• Red Adornment treated Ji Hanchu’s bruised back and refused to abandon her plan to kill Yin Fangchuan, despite his fear for her safety.
• Red Adornment poisoned Qi Jin and Xie Liyou’s internal energy, then kept them and Yin Qingyan under her control while waiting for Yin Fangchuan.
• Yin Qingyan confronted Red Adornment and begged her to release Ji Hanchu, but Red Adornment declared that Ji Hanchu belonged with her.
• Red Adornment hid Yin Qingyan in a wardrobe so she could witness Ji Hanchu’s affection, and Ji Hanchu told Yin Qingyan that there was only one Red Adornment in the world.

Red Adornment left Ji Hanchu after asking him to join her in the Southern Frontier, while he secretly protected her and accepted punishment for aiding her. As Red Adornment set out to kill Yin Fangchuan and Ji Hanchu left the Ji Clan to follow her, Ji Chengxuan discovered her connection to Hongxiu and began searching for his missing love.

• Red Adornment told Ji Hanchu she intended to kill Yin Fangchuan, asked him to come with her to the Southern Frontier, and parted from him after they shared one last night together.
• Red Adornment freed Yin Qingyan, left the inn, and confronted Qi Jin, who revealed that Ji Hanchu had killed Yin Clan assassins to protect her.
• Red Adornment learned that Ji Hanchu had been taken to the Ji Family for punishment, but chose to continue toward Yin Fangchuan; Qi Jin told her the Yin Clan leader was waiting at home.
• Ji Hanchu admitted killing the Yin Clan's assassins, refused to repent, and accepted a hundred lashes before deciding to leave the Ji Clan and join Red Adornment.
• Xie Liyou helped Ji Hanchu escape before dawn, then Ji Chengxuan questioned him about Red Adornment and learned that she was a young woman named Red Adornment who had given Ji Hanchu a brocade pouch.
• Ji Chengxuan recognized the pouch's connection to Hongxiu and ordered Xie Liyou to accompany him to find Ji Hanchu and demand answers.

Ji Hanchu returned to There Is an Inn, chose Red Adornment, and left with her after they performed a simple wedding ceremony, but Ji Zhiyuan’s ambush left both lovers gravely wounded and Red Adornment apparently dead. A year later, Ji Zhiyuan plotted to use Yin Qingyan’s wish to marry Ji Hanchu to restart his schemes, while Red Adornment survived and reunited with Ji Hanchu, who had lost his memories of her.

• Ji Hanchu returned to There Is an Inn and persuaded Red Adornment to take him with her, then Red Adornment put on Liu Xinlü’s bridal veil and declared them husband and wife.
• Ji Zhiyuan ordered the Fourth and Fifth Gate death warriors to pursue Ji Hanchu and Red Adornment, and Red Adornment fell into a ravine after Ji Zhiyuan shot her with an eagle crossbow.
• Ji Chengxuan imprisoned Ji Zhiyuan and went to the Southern Frontier, while Qi Jin offered to help Ji Zhiyuan escape in exchange for assistance with Yin Qingyan’s desire to marry Ji Hanchu.
• Ji Chengxuan found Red Adornment alive and questioned her about his daughter, but Red Adornment told him his daughter had died and later explained that the Twin Gu had preserved her life.
• Red Adornment and Ji Hanchu traveled together as she teased and cared for him, but he did not remember their past and still believed Yin Qingyan was his fiancée.
• Red Adornment told Ji Hanchu how she had survived and returned to find him, then asked him to explain how Yin Qingyan became his fiancée.

Ji Hanchu cared for Red Adornment as they traveled, and his lost memories began resurfacing as he grew jealous and listened to her speak of the man she loved. After promising to return to the Ji Family with her, he embraced her and said he would break off his engagement, leaving her to wait for him.

• Ji Hanchu refused to let Red Adornment travel while ill, fed her medicine, and promised to protect her from Ji Chengxuan; Kaiyang tested his saber skills, offered to take him as a disciple, and relayed that Hongxiu and Little Mute were nearing Jiangnan.
• Ji Hanchu took Red Adornment to buy malt candy, where a familiar threat from her revived fragments of his past; back at the inn, he punished two men plotting to abduct her.
• Hongxiu and Little Mute arrived, and Red Adornment reunited emotionally with her senior sister; Ji Hanchu grew jealous of her closeness with Little Mute and withdrew to his room.
• Hongxiu told Red Adornment to live for herself and said she would return after settling unfinished business; later, Ji Hanchu dreamed of Red Adornment telling him he had forgotten her.
• On the fifteenth night, Ji Hanchu joined Red Adornment on the roof and agreed to go with her to find Hongxiu; when she asked about his lost memories, he embraced her and promised to break off his engagement if she waited for him.

Red Adornment reunited with Ji Hanchu, then confronted Yin Qingyan and Qi Jin over their past crimes and Ji Hanchu’s memory loss. She gave Qi Jin a poisoned remedy for Yin Qingyan that could leave her with a child’s mind, and tempted him with the possibility that Yin Qingyan might recognize only him.

• Qi Jin took Yin Qingyan south to search for Ji Hanchu, and they learned he was staying at an inn.
• Yin Qingyan attacked Red Adornment when she discovered she was alive, but Ji Hanchu stopped her; Red Adornment poisoned Yin Qingyan in retaliation.
• When Ji Hanchu reproached Red Adornment and Qi Jin struck her, Ji Hanchu defended her, and Red Adornment left them behind.
• Qi Jin knelt and confessed that he had drugged Ji Hanchu on Ji Zhiyuan’s orders; Red Adornment demanded the full account of the Ji Family’s affairs.
• Red Adornment beat Qi Jin, gave him a remedy that could cure Yin Qingyan’s poison but damage her mind, and asked whether he wanted a Yin Qingyan who recognized only him.

Red Adornment and Ji Hanchu reconciled after she said goodbye, and Ji Hanchu chose to leave his former life behind for her. When they returned to the Ji Family, they found Xie Liyou tortured beyond saving, and Ji Hanchu killed him at his request before learning Ji Zhiyuan was responsible.

• Qi Jin left with the antidote, while Red Adornment wrestled with her feelings for Ji Hanchu and confronted him about their relationship.
• Red Adornment told Ji Hanchu they should part, but he confessed his love, returned her jade bangle, and asked her to take him with her.
• Red Adornment and Ji Hanchu spent the night together, and Ji Hanchu recalled fragments of their past before promising to stand by her when they returned to the Ji Family.
• Red Adornment and Ji Hanchu returned to the Ji Family, where they found Xie Liyou mutilated and chained in the dungeon.
• At Xie Liyou's plea, Ji Hanchu killed him with Crescent Moon, then learned from Red Adornment that Ji Zhiyuan had tortured him.
• Ji Hanchu apologized to Xie Liyou, and Red Adornment embraced him before they set out to find Ji Zhiyuan.

After Xie Liyou's death, Ji Hanchu and Red Adornment confronted Ji Zhiyuan at the Ji estate, where old family wounds and a long-hidden betrayal came to light. Hongxiu reunited with Ji Chengxuan and Ji Jingsheng, while Ji Hanchu prepared to kill Ji Zhiyuan until Ji Chengxuan begged him to spare his son.

• Ji Hanchu and Red Adornment cremated Xie Liyou, gathered his ashes, and went to confront Ji Zhiyuan at the Ji estate.
• Ji Zhiyuan admitted he had tortured Xie Liyou and sent Red Adornment over the cliff, then explained his hatred of Ji Hanchu and the neglect he had suffered from his father.
• Red Adornment returned alive, and Yin Qiqi shielded Ji Zhiyuan from her crossbow bolt as Ji Hanchu hesitated to strike amid the surrounding death warriors.
• Hongxiu appeared after Little Mute controlled the death warriors, told Ji Chengxuan their daughter had died twenty years earlier, and refused to return to him.
• Hongxiu accused Yin Qiqi of stealing her baby; Yin Qiqi confessed, but Ji Zhiyuan intervened, and Yin Qiqi was killed by Ji Jingsheng, who reunited with Hongxiu.
• Ji Hanchu wounded Ji Zhiyuan with Star Pendant, but Ji Chengxuan knelt and begged him to spare his son, admitting that his own neglect had helped make Ji Zhiyuan what he was.

Red Adornment returned to Jiangnan with Ji Hanchu and their children, where she confronted Yin Qingyan about Qi Jin’s role in her mother’s death and her madness. Yin Qingyan regained her memories, confronted Qi Jin, and killed him before taking her own life.

• Ji Hanchu, Red Adornment, Ji Qingrang, and Ji Qingxi visited There Is an Inn, where talk of the fallen Gusu Ji Clan left Ji Hanchu visibly despondent.
• Qi Yinyin defended her mother, Yin Qingyan, from martial-world men harassing them, and Ji Qingrang intervened at Red Adornment’s request.
• Red Adornment privately told Yin Qingyan that Qi Jin had revealed her mother’s whereabouts to Red Adornment before the killing, prompting Yin Qingyan to flee in distress.
• Yin Qingyan regained her memories and asked Qi Yinyin to leave so she could speak with Qi Jin alone when he returned.
• Yin Qingyan told Qi Jin she had seen Red Adornment and confronted him with the truth; she stabbed him, then stabbed herself and died beside him.

Meng Li recounted her years serving Ji Zhiyuan, from his lonely childhood and harsh treatment of the servants to his imprisonment after killing the woman who murdered his maternal relatives. After Ji Zhiyuan returned changed and violence erupted in his courtyard, Meng Li found him wounded beside Madam’s corpse and rushed to help him.

• Meng Li was transferred to Ji Zhiyuan’s courtyard after the Eldest Master died, and Ji Zhiyuan made her swear lifelong loyalty on pain of death.
• Ji Zhiyuan shared his loneliness with Meng Li at his elder brother’s grave and demanded that she mourn him if he died.
• Ji Zhiyuan asked Meng Li whether she thought he was sick, then raged about his father rejecting him and the Ji Family’s hypocrisy.
• After a woman killed Second Master Yin and First Madam Yin, Ji Zhiyuan avenged them with the Eagle Crossbow, nearly killed the Third Young Master, and was imprisoned by the sect master.
• Ji Zhiyuan was released after nearly a year, but he returned withdrawn and changed, while Meng Li continued serving him.
• Meng Li found Ji Zhiyuan wounded beneath his overturned wheelchair, with Madam dead nearby and the sect master and black-clad fighters scattered across the courtyard.

Ji Qingxi met Huo Hanzhou at the saber-seizing assembly, stole Wind Chaser from him, and fell in love with him as he sought to honor his late foster father and find his missing foster brother. Huo Hanzhou promised to return the saber to Seven Stars Valley within a year, and he arrived there on Lantern Festival to keep his promise to Ji Qingxi.

• Ji Qingxi stole Wind Chaser from Huo Hanzhou at the No Return Sect’s saber-seizing assembly, and Ji Qingrang claimed the saber for their family.
• Huo Hanzhou asked Ji Qingxi to lend him Wind Chaser so he could honor Ji Chengxuan’s grave, then told her he also planned to find his foster brother, Ji Zhiyuan.
• Ji Qingrang lent Huo Hanzhou Wind Chaser for a year and told him to return to Seven Stars Valley if he still wanted to be with Ji Qingxi.
• Huo Hanzhou promised Ji Qingxi he would come to Seven Stars Valley, while she told him she would wait for him for one year.
• A year later, Huo Hanzhou arrived in Seven Stars Valley for Lantern Festival and offered Wind Chaser to Ji Qingxi, saying he had come to keep their promise.

In his youth, Ji Chengxuan fell for Hongxiu, who gave him the famed saber Wind Chaser and planned to travel north of the pass. He chose to abandon his engagement to Yin Qiqi and asked Hongxiu to stay with him in Jiangnan, where she agreed and sent word to her master that she would not return.

• Ji Chengxuan met Hongxiu in the peach grove, where she watched him practice his saber and teased him about his temper.
• After Ji Chengxuan discovered that Yin Qiqi had fabricated a Sword Ghost of Yingchuan crisis to see him, Hongxiu took him to beat up the Yin family, and his father confined him to the peach grove for two months.
• Hongxiu visited Ji Chengxuan during his confinement and gave him Wind Chaser and an old saber manual before saying she would travel north of the pass.
• Ji Chengxuan decided to end his engagement to Yin Qiqi because he liked Hongxiu, then asked her to stay with him in Jiangnan.
• Hongxiu agreed to stay if Ji Chengxuan picked her a flower and sent a carrier pigeon to tell her master she would not return.

Ji Hanchu and Red Adornment fended off Seven Stars Valley disciples who came to challenge or court him, then shared a quiet moment on the roof. Ji Hanchu revealed that he had regained all his memories, and he and Red Adornment reaffirmed their love as he recalled falling for her twice.

• Ji Hanchu shut his doors against the curious Seven Stars Valley disciples, but Red Adornment's second senior brother challenged him to a poisoning contest and Ji Hanchu spent six hours saving him.
• A disciple of Tianxuan dressed as a woman threw himself toward Ji Hanchu, and Red Adornment drove him away with her Bone-Setting Whip.
• Kaiyang's disciple challenged Ji Hanchu and demanded Red Adornment as his prize if Ji Hanchu lost, but Ji Hanchu defeated him.
• Red Adornment drove away further challengers and scattered Rebirth around their home to keep them at a distance.
• On the roof, Ji Hanchu told Red Adornment that he remembered everything, and she asked whether he still loved her.
• Ji Hanchu recalled how he had fallen in love with Red Adornment again at their first meeting and placed a careful kiss on her forehead.