Recaps

Zhao Zhiyuan sought Meng Anci’s advice on marrying Meng Anzhi, while Jin Shanyao prepared New Year gifts and spoke with Qing He about her future. Jin Shanyao gave Qing He and her sister dowry money and bracelets, and Qing He promised to stay with the family after her contract ended.

• Meng Anci offered Zhao Zhiyuan advice for winning Meng Anzhi, but Zhao Zhiyuan realized the plan was dangerous and took back his five taels.
• Meng Anzhi told Jin Shanyao that she might be home late over the next few days, and the two discussed New Year clothes and possible names for a child.
• After Meng Anzhi left to see a patient, Jin Shanyao recorded care instructions for Meng Anzhi and Meng Anci in a booklet for Qing He.
• Jin Shanyao gave Qing He six hundred taels for dowries and tied a red cord bracelet around her wrist for protection.
• Jin Shanyao asked Qing He to stay with the family after her indenture ended, and Qing He gladly agreed to remain by her side.

Jin Shanyao dug up grapevines and an orange tree in the middle of the night, then planted them with Meng Anzhi in the courtyard. The next morning, Meng Anci saw that Lu Chi and Su Wenqian had matching red cords from Jin Shanyao and learned that Zhao Zhiyuan expected Meng Anzhi to give him one.

• At dinner, Meng Anci asked Jin Shanyao what she wanted for the New Year, and she hugged him after he offered to buy her a gift.
• After finishing a red padded jacket, Jin Shanyao went up the mountain at night and dug up grapevines and an orange tree for Meng Anzhi and Meng Anci.
• Jin Shanyao and Meng Anzhi planted the orange tree in the frozen courtyard, and Meng Anzhi said her monthly flow had not come that month.
• The next morning, Meng Anci spotted matching red cord bracelets on Lu Chi and Su Wenqian, who said Jin Shanyao had braided them for them.
• Meng Anci asked Zhao Zhiyuan if Jin Shanyao had given him a red cord, and Zhao Zhiyuan said he expected Meng Anzhi to give him one.

Meng Anci believed his family had forgotten his birthday, but Meng Anzhi and Jin Shanyao surprised him with a residence as his fifteenth-birthday gift. The chapter left him remembering his childhood dream as he explored the courtyard.

• On the fifteenth day of the twelfth month, Meng Anci worried that Jin Shanyao and Meng Anzhi had forgotten his birthday while Dahuang and Xiaoli kept close watch on him.
• Jin Shanyao and Meng Anzhi returned from buying New Year goods, and Meng Anci grew upset when they did not mention his birthday.
• On his birthday, Meng Anci dressed in red and waited for Meng Anzhi, who had gone to the private residence; Jin Shanyao eventually offered him birthday wishes and took him to find his sister.
• Meng Anzhi revealed that the residence was Meng Anci's birthday present and led him into the decorated courtyard.
• Meng Anzhi recalled how Meng Anci had once dreamed of building a residence larger than the Zhao Household's, and Meng Anci remembered how enormous it had seemed when he was four.

Meng Anzhi and Jin Shanyao celebrated Meng Anci’s birthday at his new house and Anzhi Hall, while Jin Shanyao made unusual preparations for the household. The chapter ended with Spiritual Power putting Qing He to sleep after she found a booklet recording the siblings’ daily habits.

• Meng Anci worried that his new house meant Meng Anzhi was sending him away, but she reassured him that the family could live together.
• The siblings and Jin Shanyao shared a meal at the new house, and Jin Shanyao repeatedly offered to take them out before saying she had something for Meng Anci.
• At Anzhi Hall, Jin Shanyao helped Qin Baitang with a window and tied a red cord around his wrist, telling him he was a good man.
• The household celebrated Meng Anci’s birthday with a lavish dinner, and Jin Shanyao invited Qing He to join them.
• Qing He found a booklet about the siblings’ daily habits and resolved to serve Meng Anzhi more attentively, but Spiritual Power made her fall asleep.

Jin Shanyao told Meng Anzhi and Meng Anci that she had fulfilled her promise to raise them and was leaving to ascend as a god. She vanished before their eyes, leaving the siblings grieving in the courtyard.

• Jin Shanyao revealed that Meng Anzhi was pregnant, and Meng Anzhi rejoiced that the child would spare her from the consort selection.
• Jin Shanyao gave Meng Anzhi and Meng Anci booklets reminding them of their bond and important details about each other, then told them she was leaving.
• Jin Shanyao explained that she had fulfilled her promise to their mother and had become a high god through her Merit, while Meng Anzhi and Meng Anci begged her to stay.
• Laojun announced that it was time for Jin Shanyao to ascend and be invested as a god.
• Jin Shanyao vanished in golden dust, and Laojun rose into the sky with Dahuang and Xiaoli as the siblings watched and wept.

Jin Shanyao ascended to the Nine Heavens and was appointed the Mysterious Clarity Divine Lord of the Ginkgo, ruler of the Azure Nether Realm. She moved into the Hall of Serenity and persuaded Taishang Laojun to furnish her new home with treasures.

• Taishang Laojun brought Jin Shanyao to the Nine Heavens, where she learned to shield herself from the cold with Spiritual Power.
• At the Southern Heavenly Gate, a heavenly proclamation praised Jin Shanyao's merits and summoned her to the Hall of Soaring Clouds.
• Yuanshi Tianzun bestowed on Jin Shanyao the title of Mysterious Clarity Divine Lord of the Ginkgo and assigned her to guard the Azure Nether Realm.
• Jin Shanyao went with Taishang Laojun to the Hall of Serenity, where an attendant named Jinling prepared her immortal abode.
• Taishang Laojun showed Jin Shanyao the Azure Nether Realm, and she thanked him before asking him for treasures.
• Jin Shanyao persuaded Taishang Laojun to send fine things to her abode on his azure ox, making the other immortals envious.