Arc 17Cinnabar and Heavenly Demon City
Zhou Wanwan exposed the Cui Family’s schemes, dealt with the Zhou family’s disastrous wedding banquet, and rescued women from exploitation while famine spread. After using cinnabar to strengthen her tree allies and moving her business, she entered Heavenly Demon City, where she confronted Princess Liuli and learned that Xue Ya and Xue Lang were dead.
- Zhou Wanwan exposed Cui Wenyuan’s attempt to frame Madam Cui, crippled him, and helped Zhao Qiuping pursue her dowry and the truth about her newborn son.
- Cheng Chao married Zheng Xing'an against his parents’ wishes, while Zhou Wanwan supported the couple and refused the Cui Family’s proposals that she become Cui Hongyuan’s wife or concubine.
- Zhou Wanwan attended Zhou Mei’s wedding banquet, uncovered the family’s spoiled food scheme, and made Zhou Fuyu take responsibility for the guests’ illness and compensation.
- Zhou Wanwan recruited and cured women with venereal disease, then made their abusers pay compensation after physicians confirmed the women were healthy.
- As famine drove food and salt prices upward, Zhou Wanwan sold supplies cheaply, but Zhao Lili seized her restaurant and took her to Pleasure City over a cinnabar mine.
- Zhou Wanwan helped Water Ghost recover his meridians, used cinnabar to strengthen the Old Scholar Tree, and moved the mine’s ore and her restaurant before taking missions at the Earth Ranking Courtyard.
- Princess Liuli forced Zhou Wanwan to become her maid, but Zhou Wanwan used the trees to seize Liuli’s torturers and learned that Xue Ya and Xue Lang were dead.