Liu Qi rushes to rescue Miaoren, Qiao Hui goes with him to plead for Miaoren's favor. Miaoren is furious and says that someone is designing to harm her, Qiao Hui shows her selflessness and generosity to make Liu Qi's heart close to her, and Ri Fang discovers that she secretly advises Qiao Hui not to rely on tactics to keep a man's heart.
Liu Qi left Miaoren to return to the palace with Qiaohui. It suddenly started raining heavily outside, Miaoren knelt in the rain and refused to leave. Liu Qi was angry, but his heart was always attached to Miaoren, and left Qiaohui to go look for her, and Miaoren fainted in the rain, and the eunuch told Liu Qi that Miaoren was pregnant.
Yi Fang asks what Myo Ren needs, and Myo Ren excuses herself by saying she doesn't have enough palace staff around her and asks Qiao Hui to come over to serve her, and Qiao Hui asks to go and take care of Myo Ren herself.
Qiaohui tries to get rid of Myoren's child by all means, all this is seen by Ripple Room, she doesn't understand why Qiaohui has suddenly become so cruel, Rong'er tells Ripple Room about Qiaohui and Yafu having a good talk together.
Miao Ren finds Sister Li and asks her about how to protect herself, and Sister Li tells her the story of how Empress Dowager Lu killed her own child back then and framed Mrs. Qi for the crime. Miao Ren asks Qiaohui to come to the nullah and jumps down, framing Qiaohui. Liu Qi wanted to kill Qiaohui, Bo Ji got the palace staff to testify that it was Miao Ren who picked the lotus flower herself and fell in, Liu Qi had no choice but to leave unhappily.
Miaoren sees that Qiaohui has Bo Ji's support, and her plan will not succeed. She wants Liu Qi to cultivate her own forces, and Liu Qi promises her to find a few people to enlist in her side during the big exam.
Wang Wang is in the river to catch fish, Jin Wangsun came over to play the zither, Wang Yoo blamed him for playing difficult to play, the fish are scared away, he sat down to play a song, listening to the beautiful sound of the zither, Jin Wangsun intoxicated.
Jin Wangsun held a hand-to-hand meeting to marry a suitable girl. Bijun heard that he was the favorite to win the examination, and many girls asked matchmakers to propose marriage, so she dragged Wang Yoo to meet with Jin Wangsun. Jin Wangsun recognizes Wang Yoo and decides to marry her. Wang Yoo asked him to show his sincerity, and Jin Wang Sun made three promises to her, and Wang Yoo was so moved that she agreed to marry Jin Wang Sun.
Episode 31
Liu Qi arrives at the examination hall and asks the examiner who has the best chance of winning the top prize. The examiner recommends Jin Wang Sun to Liu Qi, who asks the examiner to make him the top scorer and give himself the favor. When the list was released, Jin Wangsun really only won the top spot. Liu Qi asked Jin Wangsun to work for him and promised to help him become a scholar, but Jin Wangsun refused to comply and only got a place as an alternate official.
Hua Feng's father sent a generous gift to Miao Ren to get his son into the Ministry of Revenue, and Miao Ren recommended Hua Feng to Liu Qi as the head of the Ministry of Revenue. In the court, Liu Heng tries Hua Feng's literary talent, who knows that Hua Feng is just an uneducated man, not only has no insight, but also tells the story of the gift, Liu Heng is furious, so angry that he faints.
Liu Heng woke up and asked the eunuch not to tell Ri Fang about his condition. He instructs Ri Fang to send Liu Qi to Shaoling Yuan to sharpen his skills. Ri Fang sends Liu Qi away, and the gap between the two men deepens.
Jin Wangsun came back from the county office and cursed the darkness of the world. He said that he had to give gifts to become an official, and that he had no use for his talent, and Bijun taunted Jin Wangsun and asked Wang Yoo to leave him. When Wang Yoo arrives at the entrance of the magistrate's office to seek justice for Jin Wangsun, she encounters Liu Qi coming out of the magistrate's office.
Wang Yoo intentionally creates an opportunity to get close to Liu Qi, who takes a liking to her, and gives him a scented bag containing incense, which he can't throw away even though he has a rash all over his body.
Liu Qi meets Wang Yoo on the street, where she tells him what happened to Jin Wangsun. When he hears that Wang Yoo is married, Liu Qi loses his mind and asks her to bring Jin Wangsun to Shaoling Mansion. Liu Qi recognizes Jin Wangsun and agrees to help him get a position, but wants Wang Yoo to stay. The two go to the garden, where Wang Yoo tells Liu Qi who she is and returns the necklace Liu Qi gave her.
When Wang Yoo and Jin Wangsun returned home, Jin Wangsun suspected that Wang Yoo was having an affair with Liu Qi, and the two argued.
Episode 32
Liu Heng coughs up blood again, he secretly stuffs a handkerchief under his pillow, Ripple actually knows this already and exchanges a clean handkerchief to Liu Heng. As the two reminisced about the good old days, Liu Heng fainted. The doctor said that Liu Heng's illness would not last long and he did not know when he would wake up. She arranged for someone to go to the vassal state to look for Liu Ying and Liu Wu to come back in case there was a change in the court, and she also found a servant to replace Liu Heng in the court.
Liu Pi was skeptical about the identity of the emperor and questioned Ri Fang, who asked him to go up to see if the emperor was real.
The people of the house are secretly discussing the strange events of the recent past, believing that Liu Heng has already died and that the current emperor is someone else's impostor. Miao Ren happens to overhear this and goes to try to find out and discovers that the emperor is indeed a fake. When Miao Ren is unable to deliver the news to Liu Qi, she suddenly sees Tuan Tao bringing her daughter Ajiao into the palace and has a plan. She finds Qiaohui to discuss the matter with her and promises that if Tuan Tao brings the news to Liu Qi, the future Ajiao will be the Empress.
Liu Qi, who had been riding his horse with his servants, suddenly remembered something and gave the necklace to one of his servants, asking him to return it to Wang Yoo. Bi Jun is very happy to receive the necklace and thinks that Liu Qi still has feelings for Wang Yoo and decides to force Jin Wang Sun and Wang Yoo to separate.
Bijun cursed Jin Wangsun and told him to leave Wang Yoo. Jin Wangsun angrily went up to her and choked her, and Bijun kicked him in the lower body, and Jin Wangsun fell to the ground and hit his head right on the iron plow and died. Bijun was so scared that she turned and ran, but her necklace fell to the ground ......
The Tatewaki sent someone to abduct Liu Qi to his house and told him that Ri Fang had summoned Liu Ying and Liu Wu to the palace to make Liu Wu the crown prince. Pavilion Tao comes to the palace to question Ri Fang, who tells her of her good intentions, and Pavilion Tao angrily goes to settle the score with Miao Ren. Not only is Miao Ren unrepentant, she continues to fan the flames, and Tuan Tao is once again convinced. Liu Qi wants to go into the palace to see Yi Fang, and when he sees Liu Ying and Liu Wu's procession on the street, he can't help but believe it.
Episode 33
Miao Ren pretends to have found a puppet with Liu Heng's name on it, and goes to the palaces to check on witchcraft, framing Rong'er for the incident and threatening Rong'er to expose the fake emperor in the court or else she will be punished. Tuan Tao sends someone to secretly arrest Zhang Yan to threaten Yafu. Qiaohui finds Yafu to testify for them.
The three men split up and prepare to help Liu Qi ascend to the throne.
Liu Heng suddenly wakes up and gives the tiger talisman to Yifang, deciding to do something more for Yifang.
Ri Fang brings the sheriff who pretends to be the emperor to the hall, Tuan Tao and Liu Qi help Bo Ji to come in from the outside and expose the fake emperor, Tuan Tao removes the bucket hat, and to his surprise, the person inside is actually Liu Heng, only that he is already out of breath.
Seeing that one plan did not work, Tatewaki hurriedly summoned Rong'er and Yafu, both of whom proved that Liu Heng had let the crown prince supervise the country. In the midst of the crisis, Yafu suddenly turns the tables and talks about RiFang's credit, and Bo Ji leaves, leaving RiFang to deal with it on her own. Liu Wu surrounds the palace with soldiers, intending to rescue Ri Fang from the palace, and Tuan Tao wants Ri Fang to punish Liu Wu for his disobedience. Ri Fang asks Liu Qi to promise to spare Liu Wu's life and gives him the tiger talisman.
Yi Fang wants Yafu to be reinstated and offers him a marriage. Yafu asks about Zhang Yan and Yi Fang tells him that Zhang Yan is dead. When Yafu returns home, the family man tells Yafu that his bride has arrived, and Zhang Yan turns around and looks at him with a smile.......
Wang Yoo, who believes that Liu Qi killed Jin Wangsun, completes her mourning period and plans to go to the palace to avenge her husband's death. When it was time to choose a family member, Wang yooed that she knew Liu Qi, and Zhan Shi would not let her in. Tuan Tao happened to be passing by, and seeing Wang yoo's national beauty, he kept her in. Tuan Tao took Wang Yoo to meet Liu Qi, who was overjoyed, but Wang Yoo suddenly stabbed him in the shoulder and Liu Qi fainted.
Liu Qi asked Yafu to protect Wang Yoo, and his men told Yafu about Wang Yoo's suicide. Yafu rushes to the storm room and advises Wang Yoo not to sacrifice her life in vain, and that she should slowly approach the Emperor so that she can take control of the fate of the entire country.
Episode 34
YiFang is pleased to see Liu Qi handling the zhengzuo, Liu Qi thinks about Wang Yoo and looks distracted, dropping the handkerchief that wrapped his wound on the floor on his way out.
Liu Qi comes to the storm room to see Wang Yoo, Wang Yoo rushes towards him, Liu Qi instinctively dodges and Wang Yoo crashes into the wall and wakes up, suddenly not remembering anything.
Yi Fang comes to see Liu Qi and asks him about the bloody handkerchief, Liu Qi tells him that it was Wang Yoo who was injured, and Yi Fang is shocked to see that Wang Yoo's face is identical to Shen Er's.
Miaoren and Qiaohui see that Liu Qi favors Wang Yoo alone, and secretly fight against each other. Miaoren tries her best to provoke Qiaohui and Wang Yoo's relationship, and the fight in the harem begins again.
Ri Fang brings Qiaohui, Miao Ren and Wang Yoo to the Lotus Flower Stage. Ri Fang dances on the stage, and Miao Ren claps her hands as she backs away from the stage. Suddenly, she notices that the railing by the river is trembling, and she intentionally tells Qiaohui to be more careful.
Late at night, a man in black came to the Lotus Terrace and tugged hard on the railing, Yafu came with the imperial guards and realized that the railing was loose while an earring was found on the ground ...... Yafu found Wang Yoo and told her that someone wanted to harm her and told her to be more careful.
Bo Ji learns that the Ripple Girls are dancing at the Lotus Terrace and insists on going too. When Bo Ji looks at the Lotus Flower Stage, she becomes addicted to dancing and goes up to the stage to dance. Qiaohui pushes Wang Yoo up to the stage to dance with Bo Ji***, and as she passes by Miao Ren, she trips over and falls heavily off the railing. Yafu happens to pass by and cradles her in his hands, and the crowd breathes a sigh of relief as Bo Ji on stage gets a shock and suddenly faints.
Bo Ji remained unconscious. Wang Yoo asked for the earrings and went into the room to report to Ri Fang that it was the owner of the earrings who had deliberately loosened the railing, which led to today's consequences. Seeing that the matter had been exposed, Miao Ren put all the blame on Qiaohui, who was sent to the Cold Palace.
Episode 35
Yi Fang hands over the palace affairs to Miao Ren to take care of, secretly asking Wang Yoo to assist. When Miao Ren refuses to let go, Wang Yoo comes up with an idea to get her to let go of her power, and deliberately carries Liu Rong away. When Miao Ren rushes to find her, Liu Qi asks her to make a choice between her son and the affairs of the harem, and she can only choose one, and Miao Ren endures the pain of handing over the power of the harem to Wang Yoo.
Liu Heng, a minister of the state, wants to build a palace for Ri Fang. Although Liu Heng knows that the state treasury is empty, he agrees to do so because of Ri Fang's face. Wang Yoo ordered a halt to the construction after she found out about it, and then decorated the Zixia Palace as it had been during the reign of the Tang Dynasty, saving money and earning Ri Fang's trust.
Wang Yoo saw Liu Qi's deep love for her and hesitated, wondering if she should continue to take revenge, she proposed to Liu Qi to bring Bijun into the palace. Bijun, relying on Wang Yoo's status, wants to return to her ancestral house and mistakenly kills the farmer who lives in it. The farmer's wife sues the county court, which sends Bijun to Wang Yoo, who tells her to stay in the Rippling Orchid Hall and not to go out again.
Miaoren told Bo Ji about this, and Bo Ji was furious and confronted Wang Yoo. Wang Yoo herself brought Bi Jun there and chopped off her little finger as a punishment, and Yi Fang ordered Bi Jun to be locked up in her violent room.
Wang Yoo came to see Bijun in the storm room, Bijun told Wang Yoo about Yifang, Wang Yoo used Yifang's identity as blackmail, Bijun was taken out, Yifang felt the seriousness of the situation, and left the palace staff Xiaomei to monitor Wang Yoo's every move.
Wang Yoo finds Yafu to hide Bijun in his mansion. Xiao Mei tells Ri Fang what she saw, and Ri Fang sends someone to bring Zhang Yan to the palace to ask Yafu to take care of Wang Yoo.
Wang Yoo realizes that she has been vomiting all the time lately, and seeks out Eunuch Wu for treatment. Eunuch Wu tells her that she is pregnant, and Wang Yoo wants the Eunuch to abort the child, and the Eunuch is left with no choice but to give a packet of saffron to Wang Yoo.
Wang Yoo was hesitant to drink the medicine to abort the baby when Bijun came in and the medicine fell to the floor. Wang Yoo takes Bijun to Yafu and arranges for her to leave the palace, where she happens to run into Dr. Wu, who tells her that she has already told Liu Qi about the incident. Wang Yoo finds Liu Qi and tells him she is ready to keep the child.
Episode 36
Bo Ji is awakened by a nightmare and wants Ri Fang to promise to release Qiao Hui and live in a house with the plague. Bo Ji catches the plague, Ripple Room rushes over to see her and takes care of her carefully, Bo Ji is touched.
Late at night, when Ri Fang is asleep, Bo Ji puts on her dress and goes out.
Yi Fang woke up and realized that Bo Ji had disappeared. She rushed to look around and finally found Bo Ji dancing on the Lotus Terrace. Bo Ji asked Yi Fang to come up to the stage and dance with her, but she herself collapsed on the stage and died.
Peixin takes Bo Ji's clothes and prepares to incinerate them, and Miao Ren orders the palace staff to take away a piece of clothing. She finds Qiao Hui, who has been released, and gives her Bo Ji's clothing, telling her that it is infected with the plague.
Qiaohui, who hated Wang with a passion, deliberately gave the clothes to Wang, who was infected with the plague, and Liu Qi stayed every inch of the way to take care of her.
Yafu went to investigate Jin Wangsun's death and found the smell of blood on the hoe and decided that the man must not have been killed by Liu Qi. He thought of Bijun and deliberately set up a trap to lure Bijun into thinking that Jin Wangsun's ghost was looking for revenge.
Wang Yoo woke up slowly and heard voices of discussion outside. The warden told her that Liu Qi had moved all the affairs of the court to the Ripple Orchid Hall because he had to take care of her. Wang Yoo went outside to see Liu Qi, who was having a heated discussion with his ministers and suddenly fainted from exhaustion. Wang Yoo rushed over and Liu Qi woke up and asked her to hurry back to rest, while he himself continued to discuss with his ministers.
Episode 37
Wang Yoo finds Liu Qi and tells him about her pretending to have lost her memory, but in fact, she is trying to avenge her husband's death. Liu Qi is y shocked and relegates Wang Yoo to Yongxiang.
Miaoren comforts Liu Qi, who is distraught and tells her to hurry up and leave. The palace staff took Wang Yoo's clothes and prepared to send them to her. Myo Ren deliberately told Liu Qi that the clothes belonged to Bo Ji, and that they were tainted with the plague. Liu Qi learned that Qiaohui had sent the clothes to Wang Yoo, and ordered Qiaohui to be arrested.
Miao Ren tried to please Liu Qi, but Liu Qi refused to pay attention to her, and Miao Ren was very annoyed.
Awang, a guard, and Xiaomei, a courtesan, were making out together. When Miao Ren saw them, she ordered them to be executed, but Sister Li stopped her and offered her a plan.
Miaoren asks Xiao Mei to help her with a task, after which she will die, but in exchange for one of Ah Wang's lives, Xiao Mei agrees.
Ri Fang asked Xiao Mei to bring the portrait of a girl to Liu Qi, Xiao Mei went up and suddenly drew a dagger from her sleeve roll and stabbed Liu Qi, Myo Ren happened to come in and saw this and pounced on Liu Qi's body and was stabbed, Xiao Mei killed herself and died. Liu Qi was very grateful to Miao Ren and favored her again.
Sister Li brings the imperial guards to the storm room and prepares to execute Awan. Awan struggles desperately, but when Sister Li tells him that only one of Xiao Mei and him can live, Awan gives up his resistance and is strangled to death.
Liu Qi is worried about the lords recruiting troops and horses, and Miao Ren comes up with an idea for Liu Qi, asking him to summon them to the palace on the pretext of Ri Fang's birthday, and then put them under house arrest. The lords come to the palace and Liu Qi leaves Liu Wu alone to catch up with them. He mentions the possibility of passing the throne to Liu Wu in the future, and Myo Ren is shocked to hear this.
Episode 38
Late at night, Myo Ren finds Liu Wu and tells him that Liu Qi is going to kill him and asks him to run away. Liu Wu runs to the entrance of the palace and happens to run into Yi Fang and Liu Ying, so he tells them about Liu Qi trying to kill him.
Ri Fang set up a family banquet to find out the truth, and asked Liu Qi to issue an imperial edict to make Liu Wu the emperor's younger brother. Liu Qi was in a dilemma, but Myo Ren purposely poured wine on Liu Qi's body, and asked him to pretend to be sick, so that he could escape from this matter.
Miaoren found all the lords and told them that Ri Fang was actually trying to kill them under the pretext of birthday celebration, and asked them to capture Liu Wu as a hostage to keep themselves safe. The wonderful person found Liu Wu again, asked him to hurry back to the fiefdom, Liu Wu can not bear to see Ri Fang worry about his own affairs, decided to leave. When he walked to the entrance of the palace, he was arrested by the lords.
Yi Fang rushed to the palace gate to rescue Liu Wu and was stopped, Liu Ying drove a carriage to take her out. Liu Ying exchanges himself for the safety of the lords, Liu Wu is safely exchanged, Liu Ying kills himself, and Ri Fang is grief-stricken.
Liu Wu went back to his fiefdom, and Ri Fang refused to see Liu Qi again. Liu Qi prepares to prepare a decree to make Liu Wu the Emperor's younger brother in order to seek Ri Fang's understanding, but Miao Ren rushes to stop her, saying she has a way to get Ri Fang to come to the Xuan Room Hall. Liu Qi prepares to go to court and suddenly spits out a mouthful of blood and faints. Miao Ren took Liu Qi's bloody handkerchief to the court and asked all the ministers to protect Liu Rong as the crown prince.
Ministers have suggested to Ri Fang to set up a crown prince early, Myo Ren brought Liu Rong to the court and showed Ri Fang Liu Qi's bloody handkerchief, saying that her own son will not fight for the crown prince position, and asked Ri Fang to go to the Xuan Room Hall to visit Liu Qi, and Ri Fang agreed to do so.
Episode 39
Ri Fang comes to visit Liu Qi at the Xuan Room Hall and grants him permission to make Liu Rong the Crown Prince, but makes him promise to spare Liu Wu's life no matter what happens.
Liu Rong was made the crown prince, and Miao Ren moved to the Hall of Pepper Room, where she began to become arrogant and domineering, killing people at the drop of a hat. Yifang was very worried, Yafu told Yifang that Wang Yoo also had a son and a daughter, and Yifang asked him to pay more attention to them.
Yafu came to visit Wang Yoo and was very pleased to see that her son, Liu Swine, and daughter, Ping Yang, were both very well-behaved and intelligent. He engineered a conflict between Liu Rong and Ajiao, and Tantao harbored a grudge when Miao refused to marry Ajiao into his family. At this time, Liu swine appeared at the right time, and Tantao asked Yi Fang to give Ajiao to Liu swine.
Liu Qi kept coughing but refused to take the medicine. When Wang Yoo heard about this, she worked with her two children to put jujube paste into the medicine, and Liu Qi finally took the medicine. He stumbled upon the fact that it was all Wang Yoo's doing and recalled her to the Ripple Orchid Hall.
Miaoren, realizing that her position with Liu Rong was threatened, tried to push Liu swine into the river, not realizing that she fell in herself instead. Liu Qi is furious when he learns of this and abolishes her and Liu Rong and relegates them to a vassal state.
Episode 40
The Xiong Nu repeatedly violated the border of the Han Dynasty, and Liu Qi sent Yafu to pacify the chaos. The Xiong Nu was not enough troops and was besieged. Liu Qi ordered Liu Wu to send troops to reinforce them and the Xiong Nu was routed, Yafu moved back to the court in a few days, but Zhang Yan became more and more sick and died with regrets without waiting for Yafu's return.
Ministers on the table that Liu Wu is more and more arrogant and domineering, and also privately made the dragon robe, ripples room to Liu Qi to spare the life of Liu Wu ......
Liu Wu is sitting on the ground hugging the beauty to look at the stars, suddenly a group of black-clothed people fell from the sky, to see the person to kill, Liu Wu dodge, was always an arrow through the body, nailed to the tree. Liu Wu was nailed to a big tree. When Ri Fang learns of Liu Wu's death, she refuses to forgive Liu Qi. Liu Qi was seriously ill and wished to see Yi Fang before he died, but Yi Fang never saw him again. When Liu Qi died, Liu Pig succeeded to the throne and changed his name to Liu Che.
One day, RiFang came to ShangLinYuan and heard Liu Pig and AJiao quarreling. She realized that TuanTao had sent someone to kill Liu Wu, and that she had wrongly accused Liu Qi, and she fell to the ground. As Ri Fang's illness gradually worsens, Liu Pig requests to lead the army to attack Xiong Nu, and Ri Fang gives him the tiger talisman, telling him to nurture his strength and wait for the right time.
Yafu and RiFang sit face to face and talk, when Wang Yoo comes over and asks RiFang to join her to see her new family member who has entered the palace. RiFang sees Wei Zifu, who looks like she did when she was young, and the past comes back to her ......
Wei Zifu's appearance is another legend in the harem, and a new beauty mind trick will be staged once again.