Recaps

Lou Yun impersonated Lou Ze'an while investigating Li An’s murder with Pei Qing, and their partnership grew closer as they uncovered a human-trafficking network. Their investigation led them to Jiangling, where they infiltrated Lin Shuo’s household and Lou Yun posed as a woman at the Pleasant Breeze Courtyard.

• Lou Yun staged Princess Jing'an’s death, disguised herself as a young man, and convinced Su Changqing to help her search for Lou Ze'an while she impersonated the crown prince.
• Lou Yun and Pei Qing investigated Li An’s murder, uncovered signs of trafficking, and learned that Cui Rou had killed him while protecting another person.
• Lou Yun confronted Cui Rou about her past, and Pei Qing’s memories revealed that he and Lou Yun had met as children when they searched for Tuantuan.
• Lou Yun and Pei Qing explored a hidden passage from Li An’s room, discovered a hut used to hold captives, and admitted their feelings before agreeing to be together once Great Yan was stable.
• Lou Yun challenged the Court of Judicial Review over the missing prisoners, then traveled with Pei Qing to Jiangnan under the name Fangyi.
• In Jiangling, Lou Yun and Pei Qing baited Lin Shuo into taking them to his residence, where Pei Qing posed as Ye Yun and won Lin Bian’s confidence.
• Lou Yun and Pei Qing shared a tender moment at his door, and Lou Yun later entered the Pleasant Breeze Courtyard disguised as a woman named Fangyi.

Lou Yun and Pei Qing exposed Lin Bian’s trafficking network and later uncovered cheating in the imperial examinations. As Lou Yun confronted the curse behind her episodes and Pei Qing left to investigate false disaster reports, she set out for Jiangnan to address a flood and missing relief supplies.

• Lou Yun and Pei Qing investigated the Lin residence and Pleasant Breeze Courtyard, while Xie Wan revealed how Lin Shuo had forced her and her mother into the courtyard.
• A Zi and Xie Wan rescued the captive women as Lin Bian’s troops attacked, and Pei Qing and Lou Yun helped bring Lin Bian’s operation down before leaving Jiangling.
• Lou Yun exposed the corruption surrounding Li An’s death, while she and Pei Qing grew closer and welcomed the New Year together.
• Pei Qing investigated suspicious examination papers and was wounded by Jin Yu, while Lou Yun’s curse episode drove her away from him until she explained what had happened.
• Bu’er told Lou Yun that a curse might be causing her episodes, then drugged her in an attempt to trigger one, and Pei Qing helped Lou Yun face her loss of control.
• Fan Buluo accepted the post of Jiangling prefect, and Lou Yun and Pei Qing discovered that reports of a Jiangnan drought were false and that relief funds might have been embezzled.
• Pei Qing secretly left for Jiangnan to investigate, then sent word that the Huang River had breached its dikes, and Lou Yun departed to lead flood relief despite repeated assassination attempts and a mudslide blocking the road.