The maids are busy in the kitchen. Jing Ci steals the wine from the kitchen. She looks around and she finds out that there’re many guards. She sees the beauty Lian Er who dressed up. She sees her off and she thinks she’s a cold beauty.
Jiang Ci climbs to the tree to drink wine. She decides to go to pick up the Spiritual Coffin Flower after she saw Jianding Marquis. A masked man shows up. We learn that he’s Wei Zhao. He lands on the tree and he covers Jiang Ci’s mouth.
He cuts her dress with his knife. He learns that she’s a Moon Fall person. He feeds her the Duanchang Herb. He tells her that he will keep her life if she doesn’t move. The officer Teng Rui shows up. Jiang Cai learns that Wei Zhao plans to kill Teng Rui.
Teng Rui sits on the stage. Jiang Ci thinks she can only flee after she makes Wei Zhao guard down. Jianding Marquis Pei Yan shows up. Teng Rui lets the general cast the tea to Pei Yan. Pei Yan takes over the tea. He apologizes to Teng Rui for his late.
Jiang Ci praises Pei Yan. She asks Wei Zhao if he agrees to what she said. She offers to worship him if he releases her. But he threatens to cut off her tongue. The messengers of two nations have a seat. The peace talk begins. Lian Er dances.
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Teng Rui is very happy after he watched Lian Er’s show. She pours him a drink and she asks him to drink it. But the general stops Lian Er. He persuades Teng Rui to test the wine first. The doctor tests the wine and he reports to the general that the wine isn’t poisonous. Teng Rui takes over the wine when he blames General Lei for not cherishing beauty.
General Lei apologizes to Pei Yan. Teng Rui drinks with the beauty. Jiang Ci watches it on the tree. He mentions the beauty doesn’t have feelings for Teng Rui. Wei Zhao overhears it. He turns around. She explains it to him that she ran into the beauty. She realizes that he’s the beauty’s partner soon.
But it’s too late because he has stabbed her chest with a sharp knife. The bottle she holds drop. Because she doesn’t have enough power. He catches the bottle and he warns her. He puts the bottle on the tree. Pei Yan questions the beauty. He learns that her name is Lian Er.
He doesn’t note that Wei Zhao’s crossbow is targeting Teng Rui. Pei Yan knows Lian Er’s dance is a battle dance. But he saw Lian Er’s feelings from the dance. She explains it to him that she worshiped Teng Rui because Teng Rui is very handsome and strong.
I don’t believe a pretty girl like her would fall for a vulgar man. But Teng Rui believes her lie. He walks to her and he grabs her hands. Jiang Ci’s situation is dangerous. She knows she needs to do something otherwise she will be killed. She sees the bottle.
She pulls out the knife from her body and she kicks off the bottle. The bottle falls to the ground. It’s broken. Poor girl Jiang Ci. I wonder how did she endure the pain to pull out the knife. But Wei Zhao reacts soon. He grabs Jiang Ci’s arm.
He intends to kill the witness. Jiang Ci tries her best to resist. Pei Yan notes the killer in the end. He rushes to Lian Er when he plans to arrest her. Wei Zhao overpowers Jiang Ci. He shoots Pei Yan for aiding Lian Er. Lian Er catches the chance to take the hairpin off her hair.
He hits Teng Rui with the hairpin. Teng Rui’s clothes are torn. His back gets a cut. Lian Er climbs over the wall. She flees. Wei Zhao hits Jiang Ci. She falls off the tree. She vomits blood. Pei Yan catches her when she’s in a coma. Wei Zhao catches the chance to flee.
Pei Yan’s bodyguards fail to arrest Wei Zhao. Pei Yan takes Jiang Ci back to his mansion because he knows she saw the killer. The doctor tries to stop the bleeding for Jiang Ci in the room when the maids support his treatment. He’s anxious to ask for the expensive herb.
The follower reports to Pei Yan that the doctor stopped Jiang Ci’s bleeding. But they found out that the girl is poisoned. Pei Yan suspects the girl witnessed something otherwise the killer wouldn’t try his best to take her life. He thinks the only one who can save the girl is Doctor Cui. He asks his follower to go to invite Doctor Cui. But he thinks it’s not enough.
Because they didn’t catch Lian Er. He learns that Lian Er is a experienced dancer who danced for Emperor Gao many times. He remembers the minister was against it when Emperor Gao planned to get the peace. He thinks the mastermind told Lian Er to ruin the peace.
Wei Zhao returns to the boat in the evening. Lian Er asks her master for the punishment. Because she thinks her mistake caused the failure. But he doesn’t give her any order because he’s thinking about something. We go to one month ago.
The dancers dance in the department. The department is called Clean Business Department. The light guards arrive when they carried their chief, a young master who wears white clothes. We know the chief is Wei Zhou even if he got changed.
Wei Zhou walks into the house after his followers caught a lady. The lady looks innocent. She cries to ask her husband to save her when he runs out of his room. The guy is furious to blame Wei Zhao when he casts a dart to him. But Wei Zhao catches the dart and he castes it back to the guy’s forehead. The guy is stunned. He gets caught soon.