The Prisoner of Beauty shows the female lead Xiao Qiao and the male lead Wei Shao’s love in an obscure method. Fans cannot make the conclusion if the man likes the girl or not. Wei Shao is the marquis of Wei Nation. He focuses on his revenge and he plans to remove Qiao family from the world. But he’s a man. Men usually are soft when they encounter the girls they love. Xiao Qiao is the girl he cannot ignore. She’s pretty and smart. But she also has a good heart. She would give up the man if she knows the man doesn’t care for others. She’s brave and she dares to risks.
Everyone wants to get a girl like Xiao Qiao in The Prisoner of Beauty. But Wei Shao takes a different approach. He’s cold to her when she plays to stay with him all her life. Because she’s the one he wants to get rid of. He thinks she’s evil and scheming even if she helped him many times. He does it because he doesn’t want to let his grandfather down. But he shows some good will in The Prisoner of Beauty sometimes. It makes fans wonder if the man cares for the girl.
Wei Shao Saves Xiao Qiao from Wei Xiao
Wei Shao cannot walk out of his revenge. Xiao Qiao tries to save him from the resentment. But she cannot change his mind because he’s tormented by the dark past. He always rationalizes the evil behavior he did. He never reflects himself. He treats her like an abandoned chess piece after she lost utilization value. He has wanted to kill her. But she holds the city seal he wants to get.
He uses her goodwill and shows his good side in front of her. It makes her mistake that he’s kind. She pays her all to him when she wishes him to marry her. But he drives her out of his land. She cries and she thinks she was a fool to trust him.
She unites with his childhood lover Liu Yan to take the city Wei Shao wants to get. But she needs to marry the man. Wei Shao knows what the girl did soon. He misunderstands Xiao Qiao and he orders his soldier Wei Xiao to kill the girl after he finds her.
Wei Xiao has hated Xiao Qiao in The Prisoner of Beauty episode 3. Because his parents wouldn’t die if her grandfather didn’t betray Wei Nation. Xiao Qiao regrets after knowing Liu Yan wants to deal with Wei Shao with the sulfur. She knows there will be many people killed because of Liu Yan’s plan. She goes to burn the sulfur. But she encounters the angry Wei Xiao. He thinks it’s a good chance because nobody is there except them. He takes out his bow and he shoots her without any hesitation.
Wei Shao thinks what he does is right. But he meets with Xiao Qiao’s maid. He’s told that the beauty risked his life for helping him. He regrets and he stops his follower from taking Xiao Qiao’s life. He faces Liu Yan’s army when the guy came to pick up Xiao Qiao. Liu Yan is a good talker. He whitewashes his misdeeds. But Xiao Qiao is very smart. She’s not tempted by the man’s graceful words. He knows Wei Shao is better than Liu Yan. So she joins him. She slaps him because he ordered the soldiers to kill her. She acts like his wife. He accepts the relationship. He gives her ankle a treatment even if he complains it to her that she’s too finicky.
Wei Shao Gives Medicine to Xiao Qiao
Xiao Qiao claims that she won’t marry Wei Shao in The Prisoner of Beauty episode 4. It’s not actually her true intention. She suffers a lot because of Wei Shao. She doesn’t want to play a role of suitor after knowing he cares for her. She lost the city seal of Panyi. She doesn’t have any card in her hand. She plans to act aloof.
She knows Wei Shao wished to let the citizens build the city walls. So she incites the people. The citizens are very uncooperative when Wei Shao’s followers ask them to help them. She lets the magistrate hint at Wei Shao that she’s the right person to resolve the crisis. Wei Shao knows it very well that Xiao Qiao is the key role of his plan. But he doesn’t want to be manipulated by a girl. Fortunately, Gongsun Yang convinces his master.
Wei Shao is told that he needs to lower his profile sometimes. He decides not to compete with the woman. He sends his men to go to invite Xiao Qiao. But his men are blocked outside her house. They’re informed that the lady is sick so that she cannot go to meet with the marquis.
Wei Shao knows it’s the trick the woman plays. He was furious to come to his house. But he finds out that she just left for meeting someone. He tails her and he discovers that she’s seeing her sister. Xiao Qiao’s sister tries to persuade Xiao Qiao to leave with her. But Xiao Qiao doesn’t plan to do it. She expresses that she loves the man very much even if her sister worries that the man will hurt her.
Wei Shao isn’t a heartless man. He cannot be nice to Xiao Qiao because of the revenge. He realizes that the girl sacrificed herself for helping her sister get the happiness. He feels sorry for Xiao Qiao at that moment. He knows she’s a good girl. He decides to do something good.
He goes to the pharmacy and he buys some medicine. He visits Xiao Qiao with the medicine. She’s told that he has known that she went to see her sister. She worries that she will be punished. But he doesn’t take action. She decides to help him for repaying him.
She appears on the street. She gathers the people. The people trust her because she’s the daughter of Qiao family. She makes a generous speech and she mobilizes the people to repair the channel with him. He doesn’t expect that she would do that. He just wished her to let the people accept him as the lord of the city. He realizes that she’s the woman who he can join hands.
He decides to marry her in the end. But he receives the news of her grandfather. He worries that she won’t marry him. Because he thinks she has no reason to do that after she lost her grandfather. But he underestimates her determination for guarding Qiao family.
She tried her best to get his consent. So she won’t give up. The wedding go on as planned. But they’re not happy during the wedding. He keeps remember the painful past. He doesn’t do a good job as a groom. He’s heartless to ask her to cut ties with her family because she’s his wife now. He doesn’t realize that she married him for her family. She knows he will deal with her family. So she’s ready to fight. Her will becomes stronger after her grandfather passed away.
Wei Shao Goes Against His Mother for Xiao Qiao
Xiao Qiao is Wei Shao’s family now in The Prisoner of Beauty episode 5. He doesn’t go on a honeymoon with her. Because he needs to attend the sacrifice of his grandfather. He takes her and he orders the group to be hurry even if he knows she’s sick. He isn’t kind to her. But she supports him when her maid blames him. She acts like a generous wife.
They arrive in the city soon. But he keeps her outside the city. Because he worries that his family won’t welcome her. Fortunately, it’s pouring. She gets worse because of the rain. Her maids tries their best to take care of her. But it will be better if she can enter the city. But the generals block them because they received the order.
Wei Shao is in trouble as well after he returned home. His mother is very angry after she knew he took the daughter of their enemy home. She doesn’t want to accept the daughter-in-law. She asks him to send the girl home. But he rejects it. He even takes out the city seal. He tries to show it to his family that Xiao Qiao is a good wife. He comforts them that he doesn’t forget the revenge. He just wants to take revenge later.
But his mother doesn’t believe his bullshit. She knows his son will forget the revenge if he continues to stay with the witch. She sends a group of soldiers outside the city. She gives them a divorce paper. She asks them to drive the girl away.
The soldiers find Xiao Qiao soon. They’re rude to her and they push the carriage when she’s in a coma. Wei Shao knows what happened soon. He’s anxious to go outside the city. He saves his wife before the thing gets worse. He knows his mother will be unhappy with it. But he thinks he must do so. Because Xiao Qiao is his wife. He doesn’t allow anyone to trample her.
Xiao Qiao suffers a lot because of the marriage. Wei Shao caries for his wife. But he’s very busy. He doesn’t take care for her well. He suspects her often because he knows she married him with a goal. So he’s rude to her sometimes.
He doesn’t give up the mind to kill her family even if her grandfather died. He wants to make sure everyone in Qiao family being killed by him. She knows her intention very well. So she will stop him with the identity of his wife. She gets the power when she marries him.
Everyone in her family goes against it when she gives the city to Wei Shao. They’re short-sighted. They don’t know what she fights for the family. Wei Shao plans to take revenge. He will implement it even if he marries Xiao Qiao. He loves his wife but he also wants to get rid of his enemies.
Xiao Qiao thinks her marriage is just a trick to delay Wei Shao’s attack. She has a plan B. She suggests Da Qiao goes to the city Boya with Bi Zhi. She knows Bi Zhi will take the place because he’s strong. She intends to let her brother-in-law deal with her husband if her husband tries to hurt her family. Wei Shao doesn’t know her plan. He knows she will do something if he attacks Yan State. But he doesn’t expect that she prepared it. The two watch out for each other. But they care for each other as well. They will resolve the revenge together.