Recaps

Jun Jingyi used commerce, poetry, and a growing alliance to build influence while trying to survive Bai Ruoli’s suspicions and the Eighth Prince’s schemes. After organizing a Qixi gathering at his restaurant, he left Bai Ruoli stunned when she arrived.

• Jun Jingyi proposed to Bai Ruoli, but she refused, so he turned to building a fortune and a force while continuing to seek her favor.
• Jun Jingyi bought a restaurant and launched steamed buns, then admitted to buying poems from Li Ran before impressing the Yunying Poetry Gathering with his own verse.
• Jun Jingyi rescued Sikong Ye, who agreed to teach him martial arts, and Jun Jingyi later helped Bai Ruoli save a critically injured patient.
• Jun Jingyi launched Dukang liquor, which became a sensation, and began acting against the Li Family after learning of its second son’s abuse of young women.
• Jun Jingyi retrieved and buried the murdered young woman, then used her story to rally merchants and turn public opinion against the Li Family.
• At the Eighth Prince’s banquet, Jun Jingyi accepted the Li family head’s apology and watched the prince settle their grievances, leaving him frustrated that the Li family’s son was spared.
• Jun Jingyi held a Qixi promotion at Journey to the West, drawing Tianfu’s influential figures and Bai Ruoli, who froze after arriving and surveying the scene.

Jun Jingyi built his influence through poetry, the Beggar Sect, and businesses while using the legendary weapons to turn the Eighth Prince’s ambition into a bloody upheaval. After the Eighth Prince fled north and the Fourth Prince arrived in Tianfu City, Jun Jingyi expanded his commercial plans and resolved to build up his military strength.

• Jun Jingyi stunned the scholars with “Immortal at the Magpie Bridge,” then learned Bai Ruoli was about to meet the Eighth Prince and began accelerating his plans.
• Jun Jingyi established the Beggar Sect with Sikong Ye and attacked Li Young Master after finding him pursuing a girl whose parents had been killed.
• Jun Jingyi chose the Li Family’s Second Young Master as his first target, and the Dragon-Slaying Precious Saber and Heaven-Reliant Sword stories stirred the martial world.
• Jun Jingyi showed Sikong Ye his powerful weapons, then used rumors of the divine weapons to draw jianghu forces into Tianfu City and kill the Li Family head.
• Jun Jingyi staged the Immortal Bridge omen, provoking the Eighth Prince and the jianghu fighters into a massacre, while Sikong Ye realized Jun Jingyi had created the spectacle.
• Jun Jingyi expanded his soap business and used the Beggar Sect to control the Four Seas Inn, while Bai Ruoli warned him that a hidden faction threatened the Eighth Prince.
• The Eighth Prince left for the northern border after interpreting a lantern prophecy as heavenly recognition, while Jun Jingyi stayed behind and began writing a story about Zhu Di.
• The Fourth Prince came to Tianfu City seeking treatment for his poison, and Jun Jingyi met him after Bai Ruoli failed to find a cure.
• Jun Jingyi promoted mooncakes with the story of Chang'e and Da Yi, then decided to build a restaurant chain and a stronger intelligence network as he turned his attention to military power.