Recaps

Tang Zhuyun navigated the threat to Linlin’s place in the family, the Prince of Jin’s growing closeness, and his apparent death in an attack. After the emperor made her the Prince of Jin’s Side Consort and placed Yanran in her care, the supposedly dead prince secretly returned to his residence and watched Tang Zhuyun and the children grieve.

• Tang Zhuyun learned that Meng Yulan was pregnant, and a fight during the household’s hot pot meal brought Huaishang into view as Linlin’s biological father.
• Tang Zhuyun tried to secure Linlin’s standing, but she refused the Prince of Jin’s offer to arrange an adoptive father in exchange for betrothing him to Yanran.
• At the flower-viewing banquet, Tang Zhuyun confronted Ruan Anruo over a supposed claim to Linlin’s paternity, and the Prince of Jin declared he would take none of the proposed consorts.
• Nanny Rong defended Tang Zhuyun before the emperor, and the Prince of Jin grew closer to her and the children before an attack on his way to court left him missing in the river.
• Tang Zhuyun insisted the Prince of Jin might still be alive and fought to keep Yanran with her, while Linlin coached Yanran on how to resist anyone who tried to take her away.
• The emperor named Tang Zhuyun the Prince of Jin’s Side Consort with principal-consort treatment, and she entered his residence with Yanran and Nanny Rong to hold his funeral and protect his household.
• The Prince of Jin secretly returned to his room and told Huaishang to delay Tang Mingfan’s investigation, while Tang Zhuyun ordered Huaishang to stay away from her.
• Tang Zhuyun sent lanterns onto the frozen lake with messages from herself and the children, and the hidden Prince of Jin collected them and reacted to their notes.

Tang Zhuyun discovered the Prince of Jin was alive, then treated him after he returned gravely wounded. The truth that Linlin was the Prince of Jin’s son emerged, while Hongfu’s pregnancy claim threatened the household and the Prince of Jin had yet to acknowledge Linlin.

• Tang Zhuyun beat the Seventh Prince when he assaulted her, and the emperor banished him before decreeing that Tang Zhuyun would become the Prince of Jin’s principal consort.
• Tang Zhuyun saw what seemed to be the Prince of Jin by the river, then later found him hiding in the mourning hall and confronted him about pretending to be dead.
• The Prince of Jin admitted he had taken Tang Zhuyun’s lantern, dumplings, and book, and he asked her to care for his children rather than release her from the marriage.
• The Prince of Jin took Tang Zhuyun to his mother’s memorial at the Great Xiangguo Temple, where she learned the tablet bore the name Lady Xiao and received his mother’s coral bracelet.
• Huaishang and Nanny Rong investigated whether Linlin was the Prince of Jin’s son, while Tang Zhuyun told Huaishang that Linlin would remain a child of the Tang family.
• After the Prince of Jin, Song Jingyang, and Huaishang disappeared, Hongfu arrived claiming she was pregnant with the Prince of Jin’s child, and the others returned carrying the prince with a severe abdominal wound.
• Tang Zhuyun treated the Prince of Jin, who revealed he had been the man with her on the pleasure boat and concluded Linlin was his son, and she then treated the gravely injured Nanxing.
• Meng Yulan warned Tang Zhuyun about Hongfu and her unborn child, while Tang Zhuyun refused to let Hongfu enter the residence and demanded that the Prince of Jin acknowledge Linlin.

Tang Zhuyun reunited Linlin with the Prince of Jin, treated Madam Wang after a poisoning attempt, and prepared a relief clinic for disaster victims. As the clinic drew attention and donations, she suspected the crown princess’s fundraising scheme and Zong Heng arrived at the relief site.

• Linlin learned that the Prince of Jin was his biological father and tearfully called him Father, while Tang Zhuyun explained that she did not love the prince and intended to focus on her family and livelihood.
• Tang Zhuyun and the Prince of Jin clashed over their suspicions and his departure, but he secretly arranged guards to protect Tang Baixin on his relief mission.
• Tang Zhuyun saved Madam Wang after she took arsenic and discovered that Madam Wang, her adopted son Zhigao, and the wet nurse were tied to a scheme involving an infectious disease.
• The Prince of Jin began preparing a birthday gift for Tang Zhuyun, while Tang Zhuyun gave Wang Fu’s golden-thread soft armor to Tang Mingfan and planned to treat disaster victims.
• Tang Zhuyun secured permission to offer free consultations and distribute porridge under a disguise, bringing Linlin, Yanran, Xiu'er, and Nanxing to help.
• Yanran proposed serving women at the relief stall, and Tang Zhuyun’s women-only clinic attracted patients while Zong Heng stayed away.
• The Prince of Jin brought Linlin a tiger cub named Jiaojiao, and Tang Zhuyun made the children responsible for raising him.
• Qin Sang recovered under Tang Zhuyun’s care and supported the clinic, while Tang Zhuyun rejected the crown princess’s donation invitation and Zong Heng arrived with the Zong family’s flower rolls.

Tang Zhuyun managed the Zong Family’s schemes while the Prince of Jin left the capital to settle old family matters. As she supported her family and exchanged letters with him, he returned in secret on her birthday, where a strange gift sparked a tense reunion.

• Tang Zhuyun used a rumor about Zong Heng to rebuff the Crown Princess, then confronted Zong Heng when he came to her residence with Zong Xueci.
• The Prince of Jin revealed that he had once been Xiao Jianqi and that Yanran was the last blood descendant of the massacred Xiao Family, then left the capital to find someone in the northwest.
• Tang Zhuyun calmed disaster victims who had gathered outside her residence, and Song Jingyang confirmed that people from the Zong Residence had incited them.
• Tang Zhuyun and the Prince of Jin exchanged messages by carrier pigeon as she provoked Zong Heng and told Yanran about her birth mother, Xiao Mo.
• Zong Xueci entered the Eastern Palace after the Crown Prince accepted her, while Linlin became a disciple of Great Confucian Scholar Kong.
• Qin Sang and Xiao Ran rescued Tang Mingfan from a plot to frame him, and Tang Zhuyun’s investigation confirmed that Zong Heng had arranged it.
• The Prince of Jin arranged a sea-themed swimming pool for Tang Zhuyun’s birthday, then secretly returned to the residence and surprised her.
• Tang Zhuyun found a strange object in Qin Sang’s box, and the Prince of Jin broke it underfoot before asking how she had been.