Heavy Rain, the officer reports to the prince that Yang Yi committed suicide by taking poison in Key to The Phoenix Heart episode 1. The three clerks handled the Repeating Crossbow deal. The prince prepares a Repeating Crossbow. The three clerks are hung from the tree. They ask the prince Xiao Wuyi for his mercy. Xiao Wuyi kills the two clerks. But he keeps the last clerk’s life. He asks for a name. The clerk confesses it was Changsha Prince. Xiao Wuyi thinks it’s very good. He rides his horse to the clerk. He cuts him. He rides away. We see an entire cemetery.
Lord Eagle is going to attack the City. Xiao Wuyu puts on his armor. He walks out of the tent. He asks the two captains Zhang Ji and Feng Wu to lead the Suicidal Warriors to lay in ambush at granaries and armories. When the enemies capture the city, they need to seal the city gate and ruin the city. Zhang Ji reminds Xiao Wuyi that he’s the commander of North Mansion. He worries that he will be hurt. But Xiao Wuyi points out that if he doesn’t become to bait, he cannot draw Lord Eagle’s army into the city. He cannot take revenge for the soldiers of Swift Cavalry Regiment.
He asks his people to raise their cups. He mentions there’re a lot of enemies. He asks them if they dare to fight with him. They say that they won’t come back if their bodies don’t come back. They drink up the wine, and they throw the cups on the ground.
The enemies are attacking the city. Xiao Wuyi leads his soldiers to walk out of the city. He pulls out his flame sword. He wields his sword, and he fights the enemies. But he’s shot. The enemy hits him from his back. Xiao Wuyi is bleeding. He’s weak to fall down. The enemies catch the chance to get in the city.
At Grand Tutor Mansion, Xie Jiayu is whipping someone in the room. Her mother Li Fuhua takes the guests Madam Bai and Young Master Master Bai into the room. She tells the two that her daughter is studying. She’s gentle and she can be a good wife. But Madam Bai doesn’t think so when she sees what Xie Jiayu is doing. She asks her son Bai Lin to leave with her. Xie Jiayu is Grand Tutor Xie’s daughter. She throws a head at Madam Bai and Bai Lin. The two are startled.
Xie Jiayu greets them. She heard that Bai Lin was very handsome. She thinks he’s so after she saw him. She notices that he looks very pale. She asks him if he’s not healthy. He passes out. Madam Bai cries. She tries to save her son. Xie Jiayu shrugs.
Madam Bai and Bai Lin leave. Li Fuhua is furious to ask the people who bought the ghost taro. Xie Jiayu explains it to her mother that she planted it in the backyard. The fish gelatin is the one that Li Fuhua didn’t finish eating. The blood is chicken blood. Li Fuhua takes the hair. She asks her daughter about the hair. Xie Jiayu says that it’s not hair. It’s the tail of the horse Di Lu.
Li Fuhua brings up that the horse was given by Emperor. Xie Jiayu comforts her mother that it will grow. Li Fuhua scolds the maid Cang Er for not persuading the lady. She even helped the lady keep watch. She asks other maids to beat Cang Er. Xie Jiayu guards Cang Er. Li Fuhua tells Cang Er that she wants to let her know what is playing it for real. Xie Jiayu asks her mother to beat her. She shouldn’t get the bystander involved. She has told her that she only wants A Mao. Since she doesn’t listen to what she says, she offers not to listen to each other. It’s fair.
Li Fuhua tells Xie Jiayu that marriage is a big case, the parents’ order. It’s not the one that Xie Jiayu can decide. Xie Jiayu is beaten on the bench. The maid Nan Xing runs out of the room.
On the street, Xiao Wuyi’s coffin shows up. The scholars don’t believe that the prince would die so easy. Grand Tutor Xie, Xie Huaigui coughs. He asks his students to be careful with their words and actions. Nan Xing shows up. She begs the master to save Xie Jiayu. If he doesn’t come back, his daughter will die.
In Xie Jiayu’s room, Xie Huaigui stops the maids. He drives them away. He asks Xie Jiayu if it hurt. He tells his wife that she shouldn’t have beaten her daughter like that even if she was very angry. After all, Xie Jiayu is a girl. Li Fuhua throws the hair to Xie Huaigui. She tells him that his good daughter cut the tail of the horse he likes. He feels hurt. But he thinks it’s just a horse.
Li Fuhua tells Xie Huaigui that their daughter never took a good beating. But she discovers that Xie Jiayu didn’t put a padded cushion. She asks Nan Xing to go to invite a doctor. Nan Xing receives the order. She leaves. Li Fuhua asks Xie Jiayu if she wants to driver her crazy. Since she didn’t tie a padded cushion, why she didn’t yell and cry when she was beaten.
Xie Jiayu tells her mother that she knows she doesn’t care for her. It didn’t work even if she cried. If it can let her blow off some steam, she can do it. Her daughter can bear it. Xie Huaigui tells his wife that Yao Yao knows her mistake. She won’t do it again. She complains it to him that he always spoils Yao Yao. She thinks she cannot teach her daughter. The ancestors of Xie family should do the job. Li Fuhua asks Xie Jiayu to go to the Ancestral Hall to think about her mistake. She asks her to transcribe The Book of Rites 100 times. She disallows her to leave the hall before she completes it.
Prince Changsha visits Xie Huaigui with the Betrothal Gift. He has had feelings for Xie Jiayu for a long time. Xie Huaigui thinks Prince Changsha was kidding. Xie Jiayu is still young. She doesn’t want to get married. But Prince Changsha heard that Xie Jiayu was seeing some guys. Unfortunately, she didn’t chose any guy. She scared away Young Master Bai.
Li Fuhua tells Prince Changsha that she plans to keep her daughter by her side. She will teach her for several years. He thinks it’s a good thing. He mentions her etiquette takes after Late Empress Dowager’s etiquette. It’s the style of royal family. Xie Huaigui has the spirit of a Distinguished Family. If Xie Jiayu follows Changsha Prince into the palace. She can be the queen.
Li Fuhua tells Prince Changsha that she and her husband don’t plan to let Xie Jiayu enter the palace. He thinks it’s fine. He says that he can wait for Xie Jiayu. He reveals he will hold a Poetry Meeting at the Pavilion in the Middle of the Lake three days later. He invites Xie Huaigui to come to guide on poetry. He leaves. Li Fuhua complains that the prince is too arrogant. If he gets the world, people will be in hell. Prince Changsha makes friends. He wants to get support from noble class. He didn’t target Xie Jiayu if he didn’t want to recruit Xie Huaigui.
Li Fuhua asks Xie Huaigui not to go to the Poetry Meeting. He says that he didn’t promise it. He mentions she’s anxious to arrange a husband for Yao Yao. But Yao Yao likes A Mao. But Li Fuhua doesn’t want Prince Qi to be her son-in-law.
In Xie Jiayu’s room, Xie Huaigui brings the snack to Xie Jiayu when she’s designing something. She wants to borrow his jade crown. He realizes that the jade crown is for A Mao. She nods. She mentions A Mao left the capital and was on a business for Empress Dowager. He went to Blue Cloud Mountain to offer a blessing for Emperor. He said that he found a Miracle Doctor. In that case, Empress Dowager will give a present to him.
Xie Jiayu mentions what A Mao said that he would ask for a land. He will propose to Li Fuhua. It’s the most important day in his life. So she wants to give him a jade crown. Xie Huaigui sighs. He’s jealous. He mentions he didn’t receive the jade crown that his daughter designed. The guy did it before him. Xie Jiayu persuades her father that A Mao is the student who he likes most. If he likes the jade crown, she will carve a piece of jade for him on his birthday. He says that he doesn’t need it. He asks her not to fight her mother.
The next day, Xie Jiayu takes Cang Er to the club. She lets Cang Er pretend to be Masterful Young Master. They meet the couple Qing Long and Yan Yue. Qing Long asks Cang Er if she can make Repeating Crossbow. She asks him what he will do with the weapon. He says that it’s a gift. She points out that nobody dares to accept the gift. She says that she cannot make it. He knows she lied. He tries to pull out his sword.
Yan Yue stops Qing Long. She explains it to Cang Er that her brother likes to hunt bear. Xie Jiayu tries to recommend other weapons to Qing Long. But he only wants to get Repeating Crossbow. She says that the Repeating Crossbow is only for a buyer. Masterful Young Master won’t make it even if he gives him a lot of money. But Qing Long puts his sword on Xie Jiayu’s neck. Yan Yue knows Xie Jiayu is Masterful Young Master. She asks her to speak out the name of the buyer.
Xie Jiayu tells the two that the buyer’s name is Xiao Sheng. She catches the chance to flee with Cang Er. Xie Jiayu and Cang Er jump on the carriage. Qing Long and Yan Yue fail to catch them.
In the carriage, Xie Jiayu mentions she asked Pingning Princess, Li Lejun to prepare a carriage to pick up her. Li Lejun asks Xie Jiayu why she risked her life since she knew it was a trap. Xie Jiayu says that she did it to make money. The money her mother gave to her isn’t enough to make a jade crown for A Mao. She lost the big deal. She says that pie won’t fall from sky.
She wonders what kind of trouble Xiao Sheng got himself into. She wishes he wouldn’t shoot someone. Li Lejun is surprised that Xie Jiayu sold it when she didn’t know the person’s background. Xie Jiayu mentions the guy had money. She doesn’t care for his background. Li Lejun gives the letter to Xie Jiayu. She tells her that it was given by her brother. Xie Jiayu opens the letter.
Xiao Sheng takes a bath in the bathroom. Yan Yue and Qing Long report to him that Masterful Young Master is a girl. She fled but she leaked that the buyer was Xiao Sheng. Xiao Sheng is surprised that the buyer was him. Yan Yue guesses Changsha Prince impersonated Xiao Sheng.
Qing Long comforts Xiao Sheng that he will dig out the girl, getting the evidence that she worked with Changsha Prince. But Yan Yue thinks the girl didn’t work with Changsha Prince. She shows Xiao Sheng the stuff that the girl left. He takes a look at the cloth. He discovers that it was made by court. Only the girls of Aristocratic families can have it.
Yan Yue tells Xiao Sheng that Changsha Prince is going to hold a poetry meeting. He invited all ministers. Xiao Sheng realizes that it’s a blind date meeting. He believes that Masterful Young Master will attend it. He asks Yan Yue if she found Yan Yi’s family. She denies it.
Xie Jiayu takes Li Lejun home. They run into Li Fuhua. Li Fuhua asks Xie Jiayu where she went. Xie Jiayu says that she visited Li Lejun at Prince Qi Mansion. She complains it to her mother that she transcribed The Book of Rites all day. Li Fuhua asks Li Lejun if what Xie Jiayu said was true. Li Lejun confesses it to Li Fuhua that Xie Jiayu was with her. Li Fuhua mentions Xie Jiayu doesn’t recover. She asks her not to run around. She asks her to get on her knees in the Ancestral Hall. She tells her that she cannot avoid it.
Xie Jiayu asks her mother to take her to the poetry meeting. But Li Fuhua claims that she doesn’t say she will attending the meeting. Xie Jiayu persuades Li Fuhua that she should enjoy the scenery. Li Fuhua asks Xie Jiayu what she’s thinking about. Xie Jiayu tells Li Fuhua that she misunderstood her. She wants to apologize to Young Master Bai. After all, she was rude first that day. She thinks they shouldn’t lose etiquette. Li Fuhua agrees to let Xie Jiayu go to the poetry meeting. But Xie Jiayu shouldn’t run around. Xie Jiayu promises her mother that she will be on her belt.
The next day at the poetry meeting, Xie Jiayu apologizes to Young Master Bai. But he thinks he misunderstood her as well. He introduces his cousin to her. Li Fuhua asks Xie Jiayu not to go to the poetry meeting at the Pavilion in the Middle of the Lake. Xie Jiayu comforts her mother that she’s not interested in poetry. She won’t go even if those guys invite her.
Xie Jiayu wants to take a look at Young Master Bai’s Cousin’s Bamboo Fan. The girl refuses to lend the fan to Xie Jiayu. She says that it was given by Young Master Bai. The guy even inscribed the words on the fan. There’s only one fan like that in the world. Xie Jiayu thinks Young Master Bai’s handwriting is beautiful. He tells her that he can do it for her as well. She’s very happy after she heard the good news. But she asks him to inscribe the words on the Celadon.
Young Master Bai tries to inscribe. Xie Jiayu thinks he’s amazing. She asks the stall owner Cang Er how much the Celadon is. Cang Er says 100 taels. Xie Jiayu thinks Cang Er is robbing them. But Cang Er claims that it was made by the soil of Xi Mountain. It continues the young master’s inscribing. It’s unique. Xie Jiayu thinks the inscribing isn’t worth the price. She mentions Qi Prince’s inscribing. She doesn’t want to buy the Celadon.
The cousin cannot stand it. She asks Xie Jiayu if Young Master Bai’s poetry cannot compare to Qi Prince’s poetry. Xie Jiayu explains it to the cousin what she means is that the stall owner has a wicked heart. If she wants it, she can let Young Master Bai inscribe it for her. She thinks she doesn’t have to spend the money. The cousin thinks Xie Jiayu is stingy. She tells the stall owner that she wants to buy the Celadon.
The stall owner tries to sell the celadon to the cousin. But Xie Jiayu stops the stall owner. She mentions she came to apologize. She decides to buy it. The cousin claims that she has ordered it. But Xie Jiayu says that she will pay extra 50 taels. The cousin takes off her gold hairpin. She puts the hairpin on the table. She tells the stall owner that the celadon belongs to her. Xie Jiayu complains that there’re a lot of rich girls.
A Chan buys a pot from another stall. She walks away. Xie Jiayu recognizes the pot. She asks the stall owner why she sold the pot. The stall owner reminds Xie Jiayu that she chose the goods on her owner last night. She has told A Chan how to use the poison pot. Xie Jiayu realizes that A Chan doesn’t have a good intention. She follows her.
Changsha Prince arrives. Xie Jiayu sees him. She wonders if he can write poetry. A Chan puts the Toxic Powder into the pot. She decides to put an end to it. She will ask favor to Changsha Prince after the ball. She will accompany him to drink the Poisoned Wine. She tells her older sister that she will shoulder the duty on her own. It’s not related to the sisters. But Older Sister wants to die with A Chan.
Xie Jiayu shows up. She applauds. She thinks the two girls have a close sisterly bond. She figures it out that they want to kill Changsha Prince. She tells A Chan that it doesn’t work. A Chan mistakes that Xie Jiayu wants to report her. Xie Jiayu takes the pot. She tells A Chan that the pot doesn’t work. The pot wasn’t made well. Both sides of the pot are poisoned wines. If A Chan drinks it, she will die as well. A Chan asks Xie Jiayu how she knows her plan.
Xie Jiayu explains that the pot was made by her. A Chan decides to die with Changsha Prince. Xie Jiayu asks the girl if it’s worth it. A Chan shows the wounds on her arm. She says that Changsha Prince is tyrannical and ruthless. He kills A Chan’s sisters everyday. If A Chan can get a way out for her sisters with her life, it’s worth it. She grabs Xie Jiayu’s throat. She threatens her that she will kill her if she dares to report her.
Official of Capital reports it to Changsha Prince that Grand Tutor is sick. He cannot come today. The guy Chen Guangtong thinks Grand Tutor didn’t give the prince the face. He says that Grand Tutor shouldn’t have acted all high and mighty. He’s just a teacher. Wei Qianli brings up that the people at the court are Grand Tutor’s students. He looks like he doesn’t have any friends. But he’s a big tree. He’s the leader of poor ministers. They shouldn’t underestimate Grand Tutor.
Changsha Prince tells his followers that they only talk about happy things. Chen Guangtong congratulates the prince. He mentions Xiao Wuyi is dead, and the army of North Mansion doesn’t have a leader. Changsha Prince heard that Chen Guangtong was good at painting. He asks him to check the painting for him. Chen Guangtong opens the painting. He tells the prince that the painting is amazing.
Xie Jiayu tries to take A Chan and the girls to leave the control of Changsha Prince. But she’s caught by Qing Long. He takes the pot from her. Yan Yue ties Xie Jiayu up with the handcuffs Xie Jiayu made. Xiao Sheng greets Xie Jiayu. He asks her which family she comes from. She refuses to tell it to him. He says that it’s fine. He will take care of her after he finishes his main task.
Xiao Sheng asks A Chan if she wants to kill Changsha Prince. He says that he cannot stand the guy as well. He takes her and the girls into the pavilion. Changsha Prince mistook Xiao Sheng was dead. Xiao Sheng asks Changsha Prince if he was happy after he saw his coffin. Changsha Prince flatters Xiao Sheng that he wouldn’t die. Because he’s a hero. Xiao Sheng wonders who spread that he was dead.
He tells Changsha Prince that he ran into some dancers of him. They wanted to kill him. So he took them there. Changsha Prince thanks Xiao Sheng. He tries to arrest A Chan. But Xiao Sheng says that he likes A Chan’s temper. He asks Changsha Prince if he can give the girl to him. Changsha Prince tells Xiao Sheng that he can keep it since he likes the girl. Xiao Sheng volunteers to take part in the poetry meeting since Changsha Prince is so generous. He asks the dancers to dance.
Xiao Sheng sees Chen Guangtong. He asks him to write a poem about how the soldiers of North Mansion won. But Chen Guangtong says that he cannot write the poem. Xiao Sheng cuts Chen Guangtong. The guy blames Xiao Sheng for killing the minister. But Xiao Sheng disallows anyone to leave the meeting. His soldiers pull out their swords. Xiao Sheng mentions his 30,000 soldiers were killed. He asks Changsha Prince if he can write a poem. Changsha Prince doesn’t believe that Xiao Sheng will kill him. But Xiao Sheng cuts Changsha Prince. The minister is killed to protect Changsha Prince.
Outside the pavilion, Xie Jiayu is surprised that Xiao Sheng killed people. But Qing Long points out that every battle kills people. She worries that Xiao Sheng will kill her as well. She decides to flee. She throws the powder at Qing Long. He passes out.
In the pavilion, Xiao Sheng tells Changsha Prince that he changed his mind. He wants to rob the girl he wants to marry. Changsha Prince begs Xiao Sheng. He tells him that he knows he was wrong. But Xiao Sheng cuts off Changsha Prince’s hair.
Xie Jiayu runs to her mother. She tells her that she just went to the restroom. They leave. Yan Yue finds out that the girl drugged Qing Long. She hands over the pot to Xiao Sheng. Xiao Sheng asks Yan Yue to look into the girl.
In the evening, the princess He Yuanji and her son Xiao Ziqi, and her husband Xiao Rao are waiting for Xiao Sheng. Xiao Rao complains it to his mother Yao Yunzhi that Xiao Sheng sent the coffins home. The maid reports it to the princess that Xiao Sheng took the dancers and Lady Rui to Fuying Yard. Xiao Sheng said that he would pay his respect to the princess some other day. Xiao Rao is furious after he realized that his brother began the banquet.
In Xiao Sheng’s palace, Xiao Sheng’s concubine Rui Sheng dresses Xiao Sheng’s wound when the dancers are dancing outside. She tells him that he won’t recover all his life if he doesn’t take care of himself. He points out that he has her. She tells him that a good doctor cannot save the patient who wants die. She asks him to take a six-month break. But he says that he wants to do one thing. The next day at the court, Empress Dowager wants to reward Xiao Sheng. He asks her for one person. He wants to marry Grand Tutor Xie’s daughter.