Recaps

Zhou Wanwan built Yanmen Pass into a prosperous frontier stronghold, won over enemy generals, and began turning the borderlands into her power base. While expanding her reach, she encountered the Zhao Family and Jianghu Alliance, where her lost wolf companion and a clash with Water Ghost drew her into new trouble.

• Princess Jing'an and Princess Ningyuan received generous rewards, while Noble Consort Ning raised frontier prices and Zhou Wanwan cut prices to draw caravans to Yanmen Pass.
• Zhou Wanwan used spiritual power to grow crops and medicinal herbs, then opened affordable pharmacies whose physicians attracted patients before Great Qi soldiers seized several doctors.
• Zhou Wanwan’s tree people rescued the physicians and emptied a Great Qi camp, and she later repelled the Grand General Who Proclaims Might’s assault on Yanmen Pass.
• Zhou Wanwan recruited Old Master Xie, imprisoned officials, and three enemy generals, then promised their armies food and supplies as they joined her side.
• Zhou Wanwan organized farming and military training, built a trap-filled tomb legend to attract visitors, and assigned ministers to develop the frontier as she planned a future capital.
• Zhou Wanwan expanded her businesses in Qingfeng City, clashed with Zhao Lili over shops, and took the Zhao Family’s valuables before bringing their dogs to the city lord’s residence.
• At the Jianghu Alliance’s beast arena, Zhou Wanwan recognized Little Grey and wagered heavily on him, while Old Scholar Tree helped the wolf defeat the tiger.
• Zhou Wanwan gave silver to the poor, hired Lin Xiuyuan, and offered to treat his mother, then spent the night in a treehouse as the trees removed the Zhao Family’s buildings and Water Ghost confronted Li Fei.

Zhou Wanwan secured her place in the Zhao Family, expanded her influence at Yanmen Pass, and faced Great Qi's invasion with the help of her trees. After repelling the army, she entered the Great Qi imperial estate, won the crown prince's favor with her food, and restored the second princess's beauty.

• Zhou Wanwan brought rare flowers to Old Master Zhao, who declared her his younger sister, and she offered the Zhao Family’s madams discounted cosmetics.
• Zhao Lili and Zhao Rui led more than a hundred Zhao Family members in rejecting Zhou Wanwan, while Zhao Xiang showed interest in studying at Wutong Academy.
• Zhao Lili sent frontier raiders to ambush Zhou Wanwan, but Old Scholar Tree and Old Ancestor defeated them, and Zhou Wanwan discovered Zhao Lili’s prosperous city before moving it overnight.
• Zhou Wanwan turned Yanmen Pass into a thriving city, where she gambled against Xie Cheng'en and Princess Jianing, won a horse race, and learned that merchants sought the War God’s tomb.
• Zhiyue discovered that her family had stolen her as a child and exploited her for money, while Princess Jianing lost her maids and clashed with Zhou Wanwan.
• Xie Cheng'en learned that Zhou Wanwan was emperor, and Old Master Xie revealed how Noble Consort Ning’s betrayal had cost their family its military position.
• Zhao Lili urged Great Qi to invade, and Zhou Wanwan told her officials that she wanted to build her own country rather than seize the throne.
• Qin Yuan led 500,000 Great Qi soldiers against Yanmen Pass, but Zhou Wanwan’s forces and trees repelled them, with 180,000 attackers disappearing.
• Zhou Wanwan visited Great Qi’s imperial estate, sold food to the crown prince, and restored the second princess’s beauty after removing the toxins on her face.

Zhou Wanwan outmaneuvered Great Qi’s royals, used her allies to strip away their estates and treasures, and expanded her businesses in the frontier. As Princess Jianing tried to challenge Zhou Wanwan’s food stalls, she learned that the border shops she wanted to rent supported the city and its soldiers.

• Zhou Wanwan rejected the Great Qi crown prince’s demand that she become his secondary consort, and Old Ancestor repelled the men sent to kill her.
• The trees cleared out the crown prince’s estate, then helped Zhou Wanwan trap the royal party beneath a roadblock of enormous rocks, where she charged them for treatment and rescue.
• Zhou Wanwan treated the injured royals for payment, gained the Third Princess’s estates, and led the group out after collecting fees and promises of property.
• After Zhao Mingzhu imprisoned Zhou Wanwan, the trees stripped the Zhao Family’s houses and treasures, and Zhou Wanwan planned to turn the residence into Yan Mountain Academy.
• Zhou Wanwan impressed Shen Tao with her delivery service and secured orders for flowers, a greenhouse, and replacement houses, while Shen Tao let her leave despite the crown prince’s objections.
• At the War God’s Tomb, Shen Chaoge and over a thousand soldiers greeted Zhou Wanwan as their master, and palace guards joined her instead of Princess Jianing’s party.
• Princess Jianing broke off her engagement with Xie Cheng'en and tried to compete with Zhou Wanwan’s takeout stall, but learned that the businesses she had cited as rivals belonged to Zhou Wanwan.
• Princess Jianing went to rent shops near the busy district, where Old General Xie explained that their proceeds supported the border and its soldiers.

Zhou Wanwan expanded her businesses and recruited the Shen Clan before Qin Zimo confined her at the Qin residence. She helped Jiang Yunyao escape her marriage and saddle the Qin Clan with wedding debts, then accompanied her to the Zhao residence after defeating Zhao Kun's staged ambush.

• Zhou Wanwan rejected Qin Zhao’s business offer and continued expanding her shops and borderland attractions while refusing to explore the War God’s Tomb.
• Zhou Wanwan won her horse-racing wager, demanded the Shen Clan’s service in exchange for help, and employed Ding Nianci after she broke off her engagement.
• Qin Zimo confined Zhou Wanwan at the Qin residence after she refused to treat the second princess, but Zhou Wanwan subdued the servants sent to force her to work.
• Old Scholar Tree saved Jiang Yunyao from drowning herself, and Zhou Wanwan cleared the Jiang Family’s debts with gold taken from the Qin Clan and recruited Jiang Yunyao as her aide.
• Zhou Wanwan accepted the Shen Clan’s deeds of servitude and funded its property purchases while Jiang Yunyao arranged Qin Yuan and Zheng Linglong’s extravagant wedding on credit.
• Jiang Yunyao obtained a divorce by mutual consent, promoted Zhou Wanwan’s goods at the wedding, and moved into employee housing before creditors demanded repayment from the Qin Clan.
• Jiang Yunyao returned to demand her dowry, and Shen Tao told Qin Yuan to repay the wedding debts or surrender his pledged military tally.
• Zhou Wanwan defeated Zhao Kun’s staged ambush and injured him again at the Zhao residence, where Qin Zimo demanded Jiang Yunyao’s return and the Second Princess offered treasures for another treatment.