Fox Spirit Matchmaker: Love In Pavilion is a wonderful Chinese drama. There’re many top Chinese actresses and actors joining the show. I believe that it will be the top 1 Chinese drama in 2025. Dongfang Huaizhu is played by Liu Shishi. The actress I thinks I don’t need to introduce. She starred many costume dramas. She’s pretty and she has great acting skills.
Let’s forget Liu Shishi. We talk about her role Huai Zhu. Huai Zhu is the heir of Dongfang Clan. She carries the divinity fire’s fate. She chooses to retire because she doesn’t want to step in the fights of humans and mortal. But her best friend Yang Yan is in trouble in Love In Pavilion episode 2. She needs Nangong Clan’s help. The chief of Nangong Clan Nangong Ye plans to get rid of Huangquan Hongyi. He thinks about Dongfang Clan.
Huai Zhu Becomes Hong Ye’s Sword Lady
Huai Zhu agrees to it immediately after Nangong Ye invited her to kill Hong Ye with him in Love In Pavilion episode 3. She follows him to Nangong family when the family is holding a banquet. They invite many guests. Most of the guests come from Yiqi Alliance.
Hong Ye attends the banquet. He recognizes Huai Zhu immediately even if she dresses up to be a sword lady. Nangong Ye shows the monster cores to the guests. He brags the benefits of the monster swords. The leaders of other clans are interested in it, except Hong Ye.
Nangong Ye realizes that Hong Ye won’t be his friend. So he decides to kill him. He asks the musician to play the lute. The lute makes sound wave attack. Hong Ye is hurt and his ear is bleeding. Nangong Ye isn’t sure if they reached their goal. Because the guy looks fine. Huai Zhu becomes a minion of Nangong Ye. She needs his help if she wants to save Yang Yan’s boyfriend.
She offers to look into Hong Ye. Nangong Ye agrees to her plan. He cannot send out his killers because Hong Ye is the chief of Yiqi Alliance. He wants to make sure that he can kill the guy with just one hit. He thinks it will be good if Huai Zhu resolves the problem for him.
Does Huai Zhu Assassinate Hong Ye?
Huai Zhu knows she needs to do something for Nangong Ye so the guy will help her. She decides to kill Hong Ye even if she knows he’s a good leader. Hong Ye has a has time after he was hurt by the sound wave attack. He knows nothing about the attack because he didn’t experience it before.
He takes a bath in the pool. He wishes it to help him recover. He misses Huai Zhu and he knows he’s in the bad situation. She’s a powerful fight and his life will be in danger if she joins his enemy. He knows he needs to do something.
Huai Zhu doesn’t give Hong Ye anytime to hesitate. She breaks into his room and she begins to use her flute to attack him. She does it for confirming if he was hurt. He pretends that he’s fine. He knows it won’t be good to show his weakness to his enemy.
But she has seen though him. She explains it to him that the sound attack made him lose his five senses. He persuades her to join him since she just wants to be a chess piece. But she’s not interested in his plan. Because she knows he’s not a good person.
She beats him and she makes him fall into the pool. He mistakes that he’s dead. But she saves him. She puts a spell into his body. The spell helps him recover his five senses. But he cannot be five paces away from her. She does it for making sure that she won’t lose no matter which side she chooses.
Hong Ye asks Huai Zhu to trust him. But she thinks she has no reason to do that. He’s just a stranger to her. She doesn’t know he’s the Masked Man she knows. He offers to show something to her for winning her heart. He plans to leave the room. But she hints at him that there’re guards outside. He takes out the invisibility talisman.