Outside the house, people are watching a shadow puppetry drama in Pursuit of Jade episode 1. Inside the house, the girl is sharpening her knife. She walks out of her house. She sees some guys trying to catch a pig. She volunteers to do the job. She feeds the pig a vegetable. She catches him. She carries him into her house. She puts him on a bench. She asks him to be a good pig. She stuns him. She kills the pig. She walks out of her house. She asks the people to change a basin. Because there’s a lot of pig blood. She returns to the house.
In the yard, Mrs. Chen informs the guests that the banquet is going to begin. One of the guests isn’t happy with Mrs. Chen inviting Chang Yu to kill the pig. Another guest figures it out that Mrs. Chen pitied Chang Yu. Chang Yu’s parents were killed by bandits. They didn’t leave any property. They left only two girls. Fortunately, Chang Yu did a good job. She took the path of her father. Killing pig to support the family.
Grandma Kang tells the guests that Chang Yu caused the deaths of her parents. She reveals Song family broke off the engagement after they saw the girl’s birth chart. Chang Yu throws a basin of pig blood at Grandma Kang. She tells the people that Mrs. Chen gave them half of the pig. She asks them to come to select. Grandma thinks she said nothing wrong. She tells Chang Yu that she’s a maleficent star.
Outside Mrs. Chen’s house, Mrs. Chen gives the slaughtering money to Chang Yu. She invites her to eat with them. Chang Yu rejects it. She brings up that her family just held a funeral. Mrs. Chen didn’t mind it. She invited Chang Yu to come to kill a pig. She thinks it’s a friendship. Mrs. Chen gives the pork offal to Chang Yu. She brings up that Chang Yu’s father was good at cooking brine. She believes that the offal won’t be wasted. She asks her to give it to Ning Niang after she goes back. She suggests that she should be careful on the way home. Because there’s a battle in Chong State. Chang Yu comforts Mrs. Chen that she checked the almanac before she went out. It was good luck. Mrs. Chen sees Chang Yu off. She thinks she’s a good girl.
Chang Yu walks on the snow. She trips. She finds a boot. She pushes aside the snow. She sees a person. She’s scared to tell the person that she disturbed him. She covers his face with the snow. She makes a wish that gods bless her. But the man moves. She checks his nose. She discovers that he’s going to die. She tries to walk away. Because she’s poor. She has no money to save the guy. She also has a sister at home. She suspects that he’s not a good person. She persuades herself not to have a soft heart. But she comes back to save him. She hopes he won’t die. She finds out that he grabs her hairpin that she dropped. He calls mother.
Chang Yu figures it out that her mother asked her to save the guy. She carries him home in the evening. Ning Niang reports to her sister that she went to the town to watch shadow puppetry drama. The drama told a female general. She opens the door. Chang Yu gets Ning Niang to take her stuff. He carries the guy into the yard. The madam walks out of her house. She sees the man. She asks Chang Yu about the man. Chang Yu reveals she picked up the person on the road. She asks the madam to help her take the man into the house. The madam reminds Chang Yu that she doesn’t get married. She will be drowned to death by saliva if she takes the man into the house.
Chang Yu reveals she checked the man’s wound. She found out that his injury was like her parents. She believes that he encountered bandits as well. The madam asks Chang Yu to carry the man into her house even if she knows the person will die.
In the house, the madam tells Chang Yu that her uncle went to the hotel for a business. She needs to go to drag her uncle back. She asks her to watch the man. She asks Ning Niang to watch the man as well. Because Chang Yu and the man will stay alone in the room if Ning Niang doesn’t do so.
Chang Yu notices that the man is bleeding. She hopes he won’t die before her uncle comes back. She remembers she and her uncle went out to see patients. She asks Ning Niang to go to get a bowl of hot water. But Ning Niang insists on watch there. Because Chang Yu and the man are alone. Chang Yu points out that the man is going to be a single ghost.
Chang Yu pours the medicine into the bowl. She feeds the man Xie Zheng the medicine. The uncle comes back. He scolds Chang Yu after he found out that she used a bag of medicine. He wonders if she wanted to kill the person. He takes over the bowl from her. She explains it to him that she did it for saving the person. He reminds her that it was a donkey last time. Donkeys are different from humans. The madam walks into the room after she heard her husband’s yell. She drives Chang Yu and Ning Niang out of the room.
The uncle wonders why Chang Yu took the person home since she will have no food. He thinks his wife should have stopped the girl. She tells him that he will know the reason once he takes a look at the guy’s face. He thinks a good looking face cannot be eaten.
Chang Yu takes care of Xie Zheng in the room. Ning Niang guesses her sister took the big brother home because the big brother is good looking. Chang Yu claims that it’s for saving a life. She thinks it’s not related to a face. But she gasps in amazement after she saw the man’s face.
Some guys reach the place where Xie Zheng was saved. One of the guys Wei Sheng thinks they shouldn’t make their rounds because it’s Ji State. He orders his followers to report it to the prime minister. They retreat.
Chang Yu goes buy medicine. She’s on the way home. Madam Song stops Chang Yu. She thinks she shouldn’t keep the engagement paper since the engagement was cancelled. She wants to take back the paper. Chang Yu agrees. But she thinks they should count it first. She brings up that she paid tuition for Song Yan, and she also provided for her and Song Yan. Madam Song thinks Chang Yu shouldn’t blame Song family. She points out that the fortune teller said that Chang Yu’s birth chart isn’t good. She wonders if her son should marry a girl who will bring misfortune to him. She thinks she only owes Chang Yu’s parents. Chang Yu tells Madam Song that she signed the engagement paper with her father. She asks her to go underground to ask her father for the paper.
Madam Song tries to scold Chang Yu. But Song Yan stops his mother. He thinks he should make things clear to Chang Yu. She persuades him that the bad girl targets his educational background, and he’s easy to be controlled. She came to ask for payment with the grace.
Song Yan gets his mother to return to the house. He tells Chang Yu that he’s not an ungrateful person. He has remembered the grace of Fan family. But he will be an unfilial person if he marries her. He thinks they can be brother and sister even if they cannot be couple. He says that he won’t take her words to his heart. He guesses she was sulking. But she asks him to take her words to his heart. She tells the people that she’s annoyed that the people spread rumors that she forced Song Yan to marry her. Madam Song walks out of her house. She claims that she didn’t say such words. Chang Yu thinks Madam Song shouldn’t have admitted it since she didn’t mention her. Song Yan stops Chang Yu. He thinks their love shouldn’t be measured by the money. But she tells him not to disgust her with the love. She thinks the two pigs in her family are better than him. She tells him that he and his mother are two ingrates.
Chang Yu returns home. She thinks she shouldn’t waste any money on men. The madam reminds her that there’s a man in her room. Chang Yu hands over the medicine to Aunt. Aunt guesses Chang Yu spent a lot. Uncle informs Chang Yu that the guy woke up. He thinks she should go to take a look. She praises him.
Chang Yu walks into her room. Xie Zheng gets up from the bed. She reveals she carried him home after he fell into the snow. The real person who saved him was Uncle Zhao. It’s Uncle Zhao’s home. He’s a doctor who sees mules and horses. Xie Zheng thanks Chang Yu. He asks her if she saw anyone when she took him back. She tells him that he was the only one. She’s surprised that the snow buried others. He remembers he killed some soldiers. He coughs. She gets him some water. She asks him where he comes from. He lies to her that his name is Yan Zheng. He fled from Chong State. She asks him if he has other family. He remembers his family was killed. He tells her that he’s alone.
Chang Yu mentions Xie Zheng’s mother. It promotes the guy to cough. Uncle Zhao shows up. He thinks Chang Yu shouldn’t have stimulated the patient. Xie Zheng passes out. In the yard, Chang Yu worries that Xie Zheng was questioned to death by her. She complains it to Ning Niang that a coffin is very expensive. She offers to dig a pit and bury the guy. Ning Niang offers to ask heaven about it. Chang Yu agrees. But heaven asks her to buy a coffin. She insists on digging a pit.
Uncle Zhao goes downstairs. He sighs. Chang Yu tells him not to feel guilty even if he couldn’t save the guy. She thinks it’s the guy’s fate. She hands over the tablet to him. He asks her about the tablet. Ning Niang reports it to Uncle Zhao that heaven asked Chang Yu to buy the good looking brother a coffin. But Chang Yu wanted to dig a pit to fudge. Chang Yu claims that she didn’t fudge. She claims that she prepared a memorial tablet for the guy. Uncle Zhao is furious to ask Chang Yu to throw away the tablet. He reveals the guy is healthy. His life is saved after he coughed blood. Chang Yu and Ning Niang are happy after knowing the good news. Uncle Zhao reminds the two that the medical fee is more expensive than the coffin.
Aunt Zhao gets Ning Niang to go to prepare brine. Because they will eat noodles for dinner. Aunt Zhao asks Chang Yu what she thinks. She mentions Ning Niang needs medicine. She thinks Chang Yu has no money to treat Xie Zheng. Uncle Zhao asks Chang Yu if the guy has any family. She says that Xie Zheng is alone. He has no place to go. She searched his clothes ever. She didn’t find any money. She guesses the guy is a penniless person. Uncle Zhao offers to carry Xie Zheng to the county magistrate’s office. Letting the officials make the decision. Aunt Zhao goes against it. She brings up that there’re many beggars at the office. But the officials never cared for it.
Chang Yu agrees with what Aunt Zhao said. She thinks they should be in charge since the person isn’t dead. She offers to let the guy recuperate. She will prepare the money.
In the evening, Chang Yu takes out a money box from behind the plaque. She counts the money. It’s not enough. She takes off her hairpin. She asks her mother if she should save the person to the very end if she asked her to save the person. She doesn’t know what to do. It snows suddenly.
The next day, Chang Yu goes to the pawnshop to pawn the hairpin. But the pawnshop owner only wants to pay one tael of silver. She complains it to him that her father spent four taels of silver when he bought the hairpin. He admits that the hairpin is silver. But he can only give her one tael and five mace. She tries to leave his shop. He stops her. He thinks they can have a talk. She tells him that she won’t pawn if he doesn’t pay her two taels. He asks her to sign the paper. She swears that she will redeem it. Because the hairpin is very important to her.
Chang Yu drives two pigs on the street. She tells the people that her butcher shop opens tomorrow. She asks them to visit her shop. She runs into Uncle Li. He sees the pigs. He realizes that she’s going to inherit her father’s business. She says that she needs to eat. He thinks what she does is right. She slaps the pig. She tells him that the meat of the pig is very good. He orders half a pig.
Chang Yu returns home with the two pigs. Xie Zheng summons a bird in his room. He reads the note. Someone wants him to reply to him. He burns the note. He writes a note. He gets the bird to deliver the message. Chang Yu sees the bird white hair falcon. She casts a stone to the falcon. The falcon flies away.
Chang Yu sees a group of soldiers outside. She asks the uncle about it. He reveals those guys are searching the refugees without household registration. The refugees will be caught and sent to the battlefield in Chong State. Chang Yu breaks into Xie Zheng’s room. She asks him if he has any household registration paper. He says that he lost it. She tries to search him. He points out that she did it when she helped him get changed. She explains it to him that she did it for saving him. She tells him that he will be caught if he doesn’t have the paper.
Xie Zheng decides to leave since the officers are going to come. Chang Yu comes up with an idea that he can hide at a place. The village chief takes the officers into Chang Yu’s house. The officer asks Chang Yu if there was any stranger staying at the house. She denies it. The soldiers don’t find any person. The captain tries to leave. But the soldier finds a piece of cloth with blood. The captain asks Chang Yu to explain the cloth. She thinks someone was hurt at her house. She denies it. She says that she just killed a pig.
The captain checks the knife Chang Yu used. He threatens her that her family will be exiled if she helps the refugee. She tells him that her parents passed away. Her sister is the only family. The village chief persuades Chang Yu not to get the neighbors involved. The officer pulls out his blade. He finds Ning Niang from the basement. Chang Yu explains it to the officers that she and her sister were playing hide and seek. The captain asks the officer to search the pigsty before he leaves. Chang Yu reminds the officer that he’s going to step on the pork offal. He’s scared to run away. Chang Yu gets Ning Niang to go to lock the door to the yard. She walks into the pigsty. She tells Xie Zheng that those guys left.