Recaps

Bai Mo treated Shen Qing’s poison while learning to read, helping Yun Wu, and preparing for the academy examination. After Shen Qing recovered and Bai Mo sat the exam, her family began arranging their marriage, and Bai Mo agreed to attend Princess Ping'an’s gathering.

• Bai Mo discovered she had transmigrated, escaped the scandal with Shen Qing, and learned Bai Yuanshuang had framed her.
• Bai Mo diagnosed Shen Qing’s deep-rooted poison and began treating him, while she also helped Yun Wu escape the Green Grass Pavilion and bought his freedom.
• Bai Mo stood up to Pan Qinglian, gave Yun Wu ginseng for his ill mother, and faced questions from Bai Peilan about bringing him home.
• Bai Mo treated Shen Qing through a dangerous poison flare, accepted his marriage proposal, and agreed to let him teach her after Madam Chen drove off her tutor.
• Bai Mo secretly poisoned Madam Chen, mastered her lessons in twenty-eight days, and completed Shen Qing’s final detoxification, saving him by transferring her energy.
• Bai Mo sat the academy examination while Shen Qing recovered, then her family discussed arranging their marriage and fetching the retired Grand Preceptor to make the proposal.
• Bai Jingyao ordered Madam Chen to return Bai Mo’s dowry, and Bai Mo fainted after taking an intermediate potion before accepting Bai Yuanshuang’s invitation to Princess Ping'an’s gathering.
• Yun Wu wrote that his mother had died and asked Bai Mo to collect the ginseng root he wanted to return.

Bai Mo won recognition for her poetry and examination results, but Shen Qing rejected her after learning that his poisoning might prevent him from having children. Bai Mo agreed to marry Xiao Muzhi, and her family delivered betrothal gifts while Shen Qing admitted that he still cared for her.

• Bai Mo won the poetry competition alongside Shen Qing and accepted Headmaster Xiao’s offer to teach her at Xiaoshan Academy.
• Bai Mo escaped a trap at the princess’s gathering, treated Shen Qing in hiding, and defeated an accusation of an affair with Xiao Muzhi’s testimony.
• Bai Mo ranked first in the xiucai examination, and Bai Jingyao arranged for Elder Xiao to help propose her marriage to Shen Qing.
• Shen Jingwen discovered that Yuan-shi had poisoned Shen Qing, and an imperial physician warned that he was unlikely to have children.
• Shen Qing rejected Bai Mo and refused her family’s proposal, and Bai Mo drunkenly kissed Xiao Muzhi while mistaking him for Shen Qing.
• Xiao Muzhi declared his love for Bai Mo, and she agreed to marry him after initially saying she had no romantic feelings for him.
• Bai Mo registered at Xiaoshan Academy, and the Bai and Xiao families prepared the couple’s residence and planned a wedding in the ninth month.
• Bai Mo’s family delivered fifty loads of betrothal gifts to the Xiao Residence, while Shen Qing told Yun Wu that he feared involving her in revenge that might require killing his father.